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Hearings offer a chance to review intelligence gathering, she says.
Aug. 16, 2004
World & Nation
A timeline of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program and its oversight provided by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Dec. 9, 2014
After six years and a $40-million investigation, the Democratic-led Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to release conclusions this month from its controversial probe of CIA detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects overseas during the George W.
Nov. 9, 2014
Government: President moves quickly to name George Tenet, who is seen as safe choice. Easy confirmation likely.
March 20, 1997
Only about a month before the new Congress convenes, Democratic senators already are squabbling over who will chair the select committee that will investigate the shipment of U.S. arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels, sources said Tuesday.
Dec. 3, 1986
Update: President Obama on Thursday slapped Russia with new penalties for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restrictions on five people and four organizations the administration says were involved.
Dec. 18, 2016
President Bush’s apparent choice to run the CIA ran into surprising opposition Sunday as congressional leaders expressed concern about his military background, with one top Republican describing him as “the wrong person, [in] the wrong place, at the wrong time.”
May 8, 2006
Senate Select Committee The 11-member special committee impaneled by the Senate to investigate the affair has hired staff, reviewed the findings of the earlier Senate Intelligence Committee probe, subpoenaed witnesses for closed-door testimony, arranged to submit written interrogatories to foreign leaders and granted immunity to three persons.
Feb. 27, 1987
Government: For the intelligence oversight committees to work effectively, keep partisanship away.
May 11, 1997
With the U.S. at risk of another attack, the post must be filled before the election, senators say.
July 12, 2004