Former CIA Director Says Intelligence Must Reduce Bureaucracy

Michael Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, talks about how the key to a more effective intelligence community is not adding bureaucracy, but reducing it. (0:15)

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Technology Makes For More Complicated Era Of Intelligence, Says Ex-CIA Director

Michael Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, talks about how the nature of intelligence capture has changed with the growth of communications technology and media. (0:45)

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Former Nat'l Intelligence Council Chairman Says U.S. Doesn't "Understand" Russia

Fritz Ermath, Former National Intelligence Council Chairman, says U.S. policy making toward Russia should be informed by the deepest possible understanding of Russia. He says the U.S. devoted extensive research to that understanding during the Cold War, and the current policy-makers need to study Russia more today. (0:45)
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Pelosi On Interrogation Investigations: "I don’t think there should be total immunity"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At her weekly press conference, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was asked about her opinion on the prosecutions of those who gave orders for interrogations to be carried out. Pelosi said, “I don’t think there should be total immunity, I think it should be a case by case basis maybe there are some cases where immunity is appropriate, maybe there are some cases where it is not. But I don't think that we should just say that everyone who comes into that room takes an immunity bath, just because they showed up that day they have immunity for everything else."

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Pelosi On Interrogation: "We were not told"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

During her weekly press conference today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was asked whether or not she raised objections during her time on the House Intelligence Committee during a briefing on interrogation methods including water-boarding. Pelosi said, “It’s not appropriate for me to talk about what happens at briefings, it’s very interesting that people are talking so freely, but I can say this...we were not and I repeat, we were not told that water-boarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used. What they did tell us was that they had some, the office of legislative council opinions that they could be used...further if and when they would be used they would brief Congress at that time.”

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Nominee for the Director of CIA talks possible threats

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Leon Panetta, nominee for the Director of the CIA listed a number of potential threats facing America today at his hearing before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. February 5, 2009.
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Director for CIA nominee calls for cross-party unity

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Leon Panetta, nominee for Director of the CIA called for Republicans and Democrats to work together in tackling security at his hearing before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee today. February 5, 2009.
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Bin Laden a main priority for Director of the CIA nominee

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) asks the nominee for the Director of the CIA about his views on Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda at his hearing before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. At his hearing he said that finding Bin Laden would be a "main priority". February 5, 2009.
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NSA eavesdropping on personal calls of Americans

Jay Tamboli speaks with James Bamford about his new book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. Bamford talks about the NSA's monitoring of communications and the lack of oversight of the NSA, the largest intelligence agency in the world. (9:24)
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Lungren calls for increased intelligence

Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) says that the federal government can contribute most to local security by gathering and providing intelligence, adding that he hopes the Senate will complete work on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA.) (0:40)
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Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell speaks about plans to shoot down a defunct spy satellite during a press conference at the Pentagon.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell explains the window of opportunity to for shooting down a defunct U.S. spy satellite and gives a rough idea of how events surrounding the shoot down will proceed. (1:10)
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Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell answers a question about plans to shoot down a defunct spy satellite during a press conference at the Pentagon.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell emphasizes that the military's plans to shoot down a defunct spy satellite are not designed to test U.S. missile defense system, but confront the threat posed by the satellite leaving orbit. (0:54)
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General Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Staff, speaks about U.S. decision to shoot a defunct satellite with a missile during a press briefing at the Pentagon

Gen. Ham speaks about the risks that prompted the U.S. decision to attempt to engage a broken reconnaissance satellite with a tactical missile. (1:03)
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General Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Staff, speaks about U.S. military plans to shoot a defunct satellite with a missile during a press briefing at the Pentagon

General Carter Ham, of the Joint Staff, explains the primary objectives of a U.S. military mission to shoot down a reconnaissance satellite with a tactical missile. (0:50)
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General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that a disintigrating spy satellite is of no intelligence value after it returns to earth

Gen. Cartwright says that once a disintegrating reconnaissance satellite reenters the earth's atmosphere it will be of no intelligence value. (0:19)
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House Republicans walk off the House floor to protest non-passage of FISA reform legislation

House Republicans staged a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Building after walking out on a House vote. They decried House Democrats bringing up contempt charges against Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers instead of debating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reform bill that passed the Senate Tuesday night and which President Bush has called for passage of. (7:32)
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