We should thank him, and then investigate [US intelligence chiefs instead of asking where in the world Edward Snowden is". Hoback expresses real concern for the fate of the whistleblower.
Sanders also defended the president's attitude toward female reporters, which has included insulting their intelligence and accusing them of asking "stupid" questions. .
Angry Afghan MPs have summoned the country's head of intelligence to ask why a force several thousand-strong, based three miles from central Kunduz at the airport, had been apparently unable – or, more worryingly, unwilling – to protect the city from a smaller Taliban force.
Ms Nagyova is accused of asking military intelligence to snoop on three civilians, including the prime minister's estranged wife.
Lake and Cernovich both accused Rice of asking the intelligence community to reveal the names of U.S. citizens who were subject to incidental surveillance targeting suspected foreign spies.
Charles E. Schumer U.S. Senator from New York Washington, Dec. 10, 2007 To the Editor: The director of national intelligence is asking Congress to help him "spy on Al Qaeda".
In fact, when President Bush on Friday named the members of the intelligence commission, asking them to examine troubles in penetrating countries whose weapons, ambitions or links to terrorism pose a threat to America, he named Iran, Libya, Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, Mr. Sensenbrenner and Representative Zoe Lofgren, the California Democrat who is the ranking minority member on the judiciary panel, sent a letter to Mr. Holder and James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, also asking that the companies be allowed to disclose more information publicly about government demands for data.
Last week, it sent a letter to the director of the F.B.I. and the director of national intelligence, asking for the same thing.
On Friday, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and to Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, asking them to preserve and produce to the committee all remaining video and audio recordings of "enhanced interrogations" of detainees in American custody.
