HOUSE HISPANICS CALL FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM IN WASHINGTON
House Select Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, speaks during a news conference to discuss support for comprehensive immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 21, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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The Office of Congressional Ethics recommended the House Ethics Committee review 13 of 32 cases it opened during the 112th U.S. Congress, a report said.
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., will be the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, officials said.
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee is considering whether to investigate charges the CIA hid a spy program from Congress, congressional aides said.
The possibility of another buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq, should conditions deteriorate, would be "remote," Army Gen. David H. Petraeus testified Wednesday.
A federal judge in New York said Thursday that he might question CIA agents about the destruction of two videotapes of harsh interrogations of detainees.
The U.S. House Judiciary and Intelligence committees have rejected a Bush administration request to renew the government's eavesdropping authority.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says he will hold hearings next month on modernizing U.S. wire-tapping laws.
The leaders of U.S. intelligence say that diversity is now a top priority in recruitment. But they’ve been saying that for years.
When Jose Rodriguez, a 30-year veteran undercover CIA officer, stepped into the spotlight this week -- an experience he compared to dropping his trousers in public -- it was for a purpose: He is to become the CIA's poster boy in its drive to recruit more ethnic minorities.
Efforts to contain al-Qaida have made the United States safer from attack than it was on Sept. 11, 2001, an intelligence summary released Tuesday said. The National Intelligence Estimate, which merges the findings of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, was rel
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