Congressman Denny Hastert

So, it would appear that the Obama transition operation is not as adroit as we might have thought. I can’t imagine why the President-elect would have been taken by surprise by the notion that if you don’t inform the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee of your choice for DCI, she might get...  

Denny Hastert, when Hastert tried to secure millions in federal pork for an upgrade to the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill. When the bill ...  

President-elect Obama, stung by criticism from California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein and West Virginia Democrat Senator John Rockefeller backed away from the reported appointment of Leon Panetta to head the CIA: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who this week begins her tenure as the first...  

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Democrat allies are poised to rewrite House rules today, ending term limits for committee chairmen and curtailing a procedural motion for Republicans to offer alternative legislation. Changing the rules will make it easier for Democrats to raise taxes...  

Senator Feinstein complained publicly about the fact that, as chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, she had not been informed about Panetta's ...  

One key factor is that incoming Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein also softened her criticism of Panetta. George Stephanopoulos said on ...  

Several Senate Democrats who are on the intelligence committee seem willing to accept Panetta as long as the agency's number 2 and number 3 officials are ...  

A hostile response from Dianne Feinstein, the Democrat who is to head the Senate intelligence committee, was followed by similar comments by Democrats as ...  

On Monday, key members of the Senate intelligence committee, including incoming chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., complained that they were not ...  

Vice President-elect Joe Biden also branded it a mistake for Obama not to discuss the decision in advance with the incoming Senate Intelligence Committee ...  

The individual most surprised by the pick appears to be Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Feinstein is very publicly questioning ...  

She is the incoming head Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Look, this is somewhere between surprising and shocking. Choosing someone with no ...  

Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, said he would be “looking hard at Panetta’s intelligence expertise ...  

... Bond will decide that his work on the Intelligence Committee is more interesting than growing chestnuts back on the farm in Missouri. ...  

WASHINGTON: US Senator Kit Bond, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Friday that drone attacks inside Pakistan are not worth the ...  

formerly the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee; and John Hamre, a former deputy defense secretary who is also considered a candidate to ...  

According to the AP, a 2008 Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism report said Hezbollah members in the United States already engage in criminal ...  

A 2008 Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism assessment said that Hezbollah members based in the US do local fundraising through charity projects ...  

The Franks report broke ground merely by mentioning in an annexe that the government had a Joint Intelligence Committee which assessed foreign events. ...  

Before Congress established the Department of Homeland Security, it put together a select committee comprised of intelligence committee members to examine ...  

The scale of problem became apparent after the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) — the UK’s senior intelligence body — warned in late 1977 that, ...  

The damning assessment came after Mr Callaghan ordered a defence analysis in response to a Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) report on the scale of the ...  

Among the confidential Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) files, released after nearly 50 years under lock and key, were draft notes from 1961 which would ...  

Dianne Feinstein now leading the intelligence committee, and Los Angeles Rep. Henry Waxman taking over the House Energy and Commerce Committee, ...  

He added that he has filed a bill in the Senate asking “for the reconstitution of the intelligence committee” which would look over how intelligence ...  

A 2008 Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism assessment said that Hezbollah members based in the US do local fundraising through charity projects ...  

15: During a debate in Johnson County, Slattery blames Roberts for the Iraq war because of Roberts' past tenure as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman. ...  

However, a report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee in June concluded that both President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney misrepresented ...  

Dianne Feinstein was nominated to chair the Senate Intelligence Committee. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, an early supporter of Barack Obama ...  

Dianne Feinstein was nominated to chair the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, ...  

But in a July 17, 2003, letter to Mr. Cheney, Senator John Rockefeller IV, then vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he wanted to ...  

So it is particularly disturbing that Democrats would award the coveted Intelligence Committee chair to someone from the party's right-wing minority. ...  

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Jane Harman (D-CA) said that the White House never disclosed that it was skirting the Foreign Intelligence ...  

Despite Feinstein's recent nomination as chair of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, the former San Francisco mayor still feels a strong pull to ...  

Dianne Feinstein, incoming Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stated only last week that there needs to be "flexibility" in the interrogation ...  

But last week, Hayden loyalists leapt at remarks by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), who stated flatly that he wanted Hayden ...  

Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mi) told us, “Jane is excellent on intelligence issues and you’ll recall that she was removed from the Intelligence Committee because she ...  

Dianne Feinstein will become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, making her the first dame to the first dame to chair the committee in its ...  

As a past chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and Intelligence Committee, Shelby has forged an important Washington career. But it appears that after ...  

will run Rockefeller’s Intelligence Committee and Sen. Charles Schumer (DN.Y.) will wield the gavel on Feinstein’s Rules and Administration Committee. ...  

But an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that Bush and Cheney knowingly lied to Congress and the public about the threat that Iraq ...  

Lady Neville-Jones, who chaired the Joint Intelligence Committee, and is a former governor of the BBC, has called for the Home Office and Scotland Yard to ...  

Dianne Feinstein, as expected, will become chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee when the new Congress meets Jan. 6, Majority Leader Harry Reid ...  

Significantly, Texas Democratic Congressman Silvestre Reyes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on Tuesday not only urged Obama to retain ...  

Peter Hoekstra, the conservative ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, to express his hope that the pair could work together on ...  

Bob Graham of Florida (who served for many years on the Senate Intelligence Committee), has reached a chilling conclusion: "Without greater urgency and ...  

Jane Harman, former chairwoman of the House intelligence committee; and Jack Devine, a longtime CIA official and former acting CIA director. ...  

... in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being sighted, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday. ...  

Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement after being reappointed Ranking Member by ...  

The GoM Report had recommended an agency to coordinate all intelligence: the Joint Intelligence Committee under the National Security Council was set up, ...  

The Senate Intelligence Committee took closed-door testimony from CIA Director Michael Hayden on how videotapes of terror suspect interrogations were made, ...  

The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat [Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas] said Tuesday he has recommended that President-elect Barack Obama keep the ...  

By Bill O'Reilly TIME magazine is reporting that the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, may consider more stringent interrogation ...  

In testimony to the Senate intelligence committee in February, Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, confirmed that CIA interrogators waterboarded Mohammed, ...  

... allowed an uncleared prosecutor to make false representations in court," Turley wrote to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Sylvestre Reyes, D-Texas. ...  

Boren, then chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, presided over Gates' 1991 confirmation hearings to become CIA director. ...  

Commission Chairman Bob Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida and former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the "World at Risk" ...