US spy agencies not meeting goal of intelligence overhaul, says internal report

September 30th, 2009 AP's Curley: Obama open gov't order being skirtedWASHINGTON — The head of The Associated Press says President Barack Obama's directive to increase the transparency of government isn't trickling down to some federal agencies and courts. AP President and CEO Tom Curley says some agencies have abused recent legislation that allows them to use special statutes to shield their internal deliberations from the public.

September 13th, 2009 Gibbs: Public option 1 way to meet coverage goalWASHINGTON — White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says it's not true that a health care overhaul will affect people who already have insurance. He says President Barack Obama is determined that health care legislation provides Americans with a choice of insurers and competition for the companies that now dominate the market.

September 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Building on institutional exchanges between intelligence and law-enforcement agencies of India and the US has been the thrust of Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram's meetings with top officials of the Obama administration.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The son of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by a US missile attack in Pakistan, US National Public Radio has reported. Saad bin Laden was believed killed in a missile strike from a US drone earlier this year, intelligence officials told the broadcaster Wednesday.

July 22nd, 2009 Report: Shortage of cyber experts may hinder govtWASHINGTON — Federal agencies are facing a severe shortage of computer specialists, even as a growing wave of coordinated cyberattacks against the government poses potential national security risks, a private study found. The study describes a fragmented federal cyber force, where no one is in charge of overall planning and government agencies are "on their own and sometimes working at cross purposes or in competition with one another." The report, scheduled to be released Wednesday, arrives in the wake of a series of cyberattacks this month that shut down some U.S.

July 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has proposed a crackdown on credit-rating agencies, among the key players blamed in a financial crisis that has devastated the global economy. The proposed legislation sent to Congress is designed to remove conflicts of interest between the private agencies and the banks and lenders that they are rating.

July 19th, 2009 Budget chief sees progress in health care overhaulWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's budget director is playing down reports that lawmakers are bogged down over the health care overhaul. Peter Orszag says good progress is being made toward Obama's goal of a bill in August.

July 10th, 2009 Surveillance went beyond warrantless wiretappingWASHINGTON — A new internal government report says President George W. Bush authorized secret intelligence activities shortly after the Sept.

June 16th, 2009 Obama promises to close regulatory gapsWASHINGTON — As the Obama administration prepares to unveil an overhaul of the way financial institutions are regulated, President Barack Obama says the goal will be to fill a "series of regulatory gaps." Obama told reporters Tuesday there's been a "lack of oversight" that allowed what he termed "wild risk-taking." He says it led to conditions that have been "very dangerous" for the American people. Obama says rather than adding another layer of regulatory agencies, his approach will be to streamline and consolidate, and to add protections for consumers and investors.

May 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - India and Pakistan have started sharing intelligence inputs regarding Islamic extremists amid continuous persuasion from the United States, a report in a leading US daily said. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) arranged for Pakistan and India to share information on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the outlawed accused of carrying out the Mumbai 26/11 attacks.

March 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Chinese intelligence service spends most of its time not only trying to steal secrets from overseas but also on ways to bolster Communist Party rule by repressing religious and political dissent internally, claims a spy who has defected to the United States. "In some sense you can say that intelligence work between two countries is just like war but without the fire," Li Fengzhi told The Washington Times in an interview aided by an interpreter.

February 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta who was sworn in Thursday as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pledged that US intelligence assessments would be independent of political influence. Panetta, a former US congressman, said it was crucial that the CIA provide 'honest' reviews of the security threats facing the US, in an implicit swipe at former president George W.

February 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta who was sworn in Thursday as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pledged that US intelligence assessments would be independent of political influence. Panetta, a former US congressman, said it was crucial that the CIA provide 'honest' reviews of the security threats facing the US, in an implicit swipe at former president George W.

February 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta who was sworn in Thursday as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pledged that US intelligence assessments would be independent of political influence. Panetta, a former US congressman, said it was crucial that the CIA provide 'honest' reviews of the security threats facing the US, in an implicit swipe at former president George W.

February 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Leon Panetta who was sworn in Thursday as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pledged that US intelligence assessments would be independent of political influence. Panetta, a former US congressman, said it was crucial that the CIA provide 'honest' reviews of the security threats facing the US, in an implicit swipe at former president George W.