http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...ia/11038599.htm

CIA Director Porter Goss says agency needs reform

No CIA agents searching for Osama in Pakistan :

Pakistan has not allowed CIA agents to launch operation on its soil to track down Osma Bin Laden, Al Qaeda chief, said Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, information minister.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?p...3-3-2005_pg10_4

http://tinyurl.com/6phcn

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4E9...2FCEA37E29E.htm

Bush reassures CIA over change


Note: I find it pretty amazing that Al Jazeera is the first to report on the Bush meeting today at the CIA

Bush Offers Reassurance to C.I.A. Over Role of Intelligence
Chief
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush sought to reassure nervous employees that
they would not be undermined once John D. Negroponte
becomes national director of intelligence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/politics/04bush.html?th

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Bush Visits CIA, Emphasizing the Agency's Continued Importance
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The president's effort to bolster morale sapped by reforms comes a day after Director Porter J. Goss' comments on his own heavy workload.

By Greg Miller
Times Staff Writer

March 4 2005

WASHINGTON; President Bush paid a rare visit to the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Va., on Thursday in an effort to boost morale at an agency that will have a diminished role after a restructuring of the U.S. intelligence community.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...eadlines-nation

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/l...inuedimportance

Bush Visits CIA, Emphasizing the Agency's Continued Importance

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?i...TC-RSSFeeds0312

Bush Reassures CIA Employees About Agency

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...curity/military

Study Urges CIA Not to Cede Paramilitary Functions to Pentagon

CIA Director Cuts Meetings On Terrorism

By Walter Pincus

The daily 5 o'clock meeting at CIA headquarters that for the past three years has coordinated tactical counterterrorism operations involving senior CIA, FBI, Pentagon and Homeland Security Department officials has been cut back by new CIA Director Porter J. Goss to three a week, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

Changing of the Guard at the CIA

By Walter Pincus

With the departure next month of the CIA's deputy director for intelligence, Jami A. Miscik, CIA Director Porter J. Goss will have largely completed the replacement of top agency officials that his aides had predicted to colleagues when they took control in October.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

CIA Revising Policies on Books by Employees

By Walter Pincus

The CIA is revising its procedures for clearing the publication of books or articles by currently employed analysts and case officers in the wake of controversy generated by the best-selling book, "Imperial Hubris: How the West Is Losing the War on Terrorism."

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

Goss Plan to Strengthen CIA Is Ready

By Walter Pincus

CIA Director Porter J. Goss plans to deliver to President Bush today his plans for increasing by 50 percent the number of clandestine operations officers and analysts to expand U.S. intelligence on terrorist networks and to counter the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, according to senior intelligence officials.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

CIA Leaders Criticized on Pre-9/11 Actions

By Dana Priest

The CIA inspector general has written a blistering critique of senior CIA officials' performance before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, saying they failed to direct more resources to counterterrorism and inadequately analyzed the threat from al Qaeda, according to several former agency officials who have seen portions of the report.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...r_wh/bush_cia_8

Bush Reassures CIA Employees About Agency

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,1227....html?gusrc=rss

CIA chief bogged down by workload

War Helps Recruit Terrorists, Hill Told

By Dana Priest and Josh White

The insurgency in Iraq continues to baffle the U.S. military and intelligence communities, and the U.S. occupation has become a potent recruiting tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, top U.S. national security officials told Congress yesterday.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

Defense Espionage Unit to Work With CIA

By Josh White and Barton Gellman

Defense Department officials acknowledged yesterday that the Pentagon has created new clandestine teams to gain better human intelligence for military commanders but emphasized that the program was developed with the cooperation of the Central Intelligence Agency, not to bypass it.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

Bush's Intelligence Panel Gains Stature

By Walter Pincus

President Bush's commission to study intelligence, appointed one year ago yesterday, has taken on greater importance as the administration struggles to restructure the U.S. intelligence community as required in the bill passed by Congress in December.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

Changing of the Guard at the CIA

By Walter Pincus

With the departure next month of the CIA's deputy director for intelligence, Jami A. Miscik, CIA Director Porter J. Goss will have largely completed the replacement of top agency officials that his aides had predicted to colleagues when they took control in October.

To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...er=emailarticle

Rule Change Lets C.I.A. Freely Send Suspects Abroad to Jails
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON - New York Times
The process has been central in U.S. efforts to disrupt terrorism, but has been criticized by human rights groups.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/n..._rendition_dc_1

Bush Gave CIA Expansive Interrogation Power - Paper

http://www.theage.com.au/news/War-on-Terro...l?oneclick=true

Bush approved CIA moving terror suspects

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles...-+National+News

An Afghan prison stirs doubts on CIA
A man's death brings inquiry

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/...e+--+World+News

Report Says CIA powers broadened

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/06/...ain678373.shtml

Exporting Prisoner Abuse

http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/p...05-111738-8027r

US targets spy services abroad

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GC08Aa01.html
Counter-terrorism revisited
B Raman

http://www.sierratimes.com/05/03/06/141_149_216_68_85780.htm

Angry Ayman's Anthrax: Inside the Hearts of Green Birds

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7101640/site/newsweek/

The CIA Chief Steps Into It . . .Yet Again
Newsweek

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a..._pe/cia_gates_2

Ex-CIA Director Says He Wasn't Overwhelmed

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/n...telligence_dc_1

Corrected: US Readies Aggressive Counterintelligence Plan

CIA Flying Suspects To Torture:

Witnesses tell the same story: masked men in an unmarked jet seize their target, cut off his clothes, put him in a blindfold and jumpsuit, tranquilize him and fly him away. They're describing U.S. agents collaring terrorism suspects.
http://207.44.245.159/article8204.htm

U.S. targets spy services abroad:

The new mission for counterintelligence is to identify foreign spies and terrorist threats, and then develop "a counterintelligence doctrine of attacking foreign intelligence services systematically via strategic counterintelligence operations,"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/p...05-111738-8027r

http://tinyurl.com/65v3u

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Spy Agencies Fear Some Applicants Are Terrorists
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By Bob Drogin
Times Staff Writer

March 8 2005

WASHINGTON; U.S. counterintelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Al Qaeda sympathizers or operatives may have tried to get jobs at the CIA and other U.S. agencies in an effort to spy on American counterterrorist efforts.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/na...,0,431533.story

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=54&u_sid=1354657

Al Qaida push to infiltrate CIA is seen

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory...attack&id=69594

CIA techniques come under fire

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/l...tsareterrorists

Spy Agencies Fear Some Applicants are Terrorists

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/u...yguidesthestars

Homeland Security guides the stars

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/t...nation/132246_1

National Sec-recy

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/08/opi.../edtorture.html

Torture by proxy

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050309/1052216.asp

US concerned about al-Qaida trying to infiltrate CIA and other agencies

http://www.nylawyer.com/news/05/03/030905p.html

Professor Suing the CIA over Vietnam Era Documents

http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/...news/news11.txt

Congressman urges probe into company's role in war

http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?Sto...09-024637-6537r

Analysis: Rendition a routine practice

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/08/...ain678811.shtml

US allows Suspects to Buy Guns

http://federaltimes.com/index2.php?S=707859

FBI urged to widen cooperation, consolidate terrorist watch lists

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/u...rrorismsuspects

FBI suggests Congress ban gun sales to terrorism suspects

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37133

From Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin
Al-Qaida south of the border
Rumsfeld: Human smuggling rings tied to bin Laden's terrorist network

Chalmers Johnson: The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History:

The Central Intelligence Agency has an almost unblemished record of screwing up every "secret" armed intervention it ever undertook. From the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953 through Ronald Reagan's Iran-contra war against Nicaragua, there is not a single instance in which the agency's activities did not prove acutely embarrassing to the United States.
http://207.44.245.159/article8218.htm

Spy Agencies Fear Some Applicants Are Terrorists:

U.S. counterintelligence officials are increasingly concerned that Al Qaeda sympathizers or operatives may have tried to get jobs at the CIA and other U.S. agencies in an effort to spy on American counterterrorist efforts.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news3/latimes31.htm