In a gathering with reporters, Mr. Daschle criticized administration "intransigence" to sharing information with Congress.
At an annual gathering here, executives harshly criticized Google's recent agreement to place ads next to Yahoo search results.
It is unclear whether Mr. Zhou's travels were timed to coincide with the Uighur gathering, which was sharply criticized by Chinese Foreign Ministry officials and by editors and writers in the Chinese state media.
Some activists abroad have criticized the gathering as suggesting that the government was willing to engage in dialogue and tolerate dissent, even as its army and security forces press on with a relentless crackdown from one end of Syria to the other.
The four-day gathering, which has been criticized as more of an excuse for shopping than a serious effort at addressing world hunger, was called to revitalize government pledges made five years ago to halve the level of world hunger to 400 million people by 2015, a goal that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has said will not be met.
"He's not a knife fighter, and that's probably what they'd need from a DNI perspective". Early on in his current position, he dismantled an anti-terrorism database that civil liberties advocates had criticized for gathering information about antiwar groups and activists.
But in some of the toughest conflicts in the world, the militarization of aid and the exploitation of that access by the military to conduct intelligence-gathering operations has been criticized for blurring the line between helping and hurting.
In the end, as many as two million people defied the authorities by gathering in Tiananmen Square, where they criticized the Gang of Four, Mao and the excesses of his Cultural Revolution.
The FBI, which has been criticized for improperly gathering telephone records in terrorism cases, has told its agents they may still ask phone companies to voluntarily hand over toll records in emergencies by using a new set of procedures, officials said yesterday.
The next day, in a gathering south of downtown, participants criticized an approach to security that they said criminalized students, victimizing them more than protecting them.
The United States has been criticized at these gatherings for years, in part because it does not accept the Kyoto framework and in part because it has not adopted a comprehensive domestic program for reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions.
