Rockefeller: Hayden's "˜Upbeat Assessment' On Al Qaeda "˜Not Consistent' With Intel Reports To Capitol Hill Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee replied to Hayden, "The positions attributed to you are not consistent with assessments that have been provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee over the past year."

Hayden: U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.