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A Central Intelligence Agency program that CIA Director Leon Panetta briefed congressional intelligence committees about on June 24 was an "on-again, off-again" project that "never went fully operational" and that Panetta had been informed about by a component of the CIA itself that recommended he in turn inform Congress about it, a U.S.

A key Republican lawmaker on Thursday urged President Obama to launch a cyber attack against North Korea, or increase international sanctions against the communist country, in the wake of an unknown hacker's denial-of-service attacks on U.S. and South Korean websites.

The politically explosive clash between the CIA and congressional Democrats flared anew Thursday as CIA chief Leon Panetta rejected fresh charges that the spy agency had systematically lied to lawmakers about key administration policies in the wake of the Sept.

The Central Intelligence Agency is conducting an internal review of how it briefs Congress on secret programs, intelligence officials said on Thursday, as Democrats and Republicans traded barbs over an admission by the agency's director that the C.I.A. failed for eight years to inform the Intelligence Committees of one unidentified program.

Last month's uprising of Iranian citizens, upset with a pilfered presidential election, inspired Americans and struck familiar chords of a people aspiring to enjoy greater freedom and a just and accurate accounting at the ballot box.

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency , Leon E. Panetta, has told the House Intelligence Committee in closed-door testimony that the C.I.A. concealed "significant actions" from Congress from 2001 until late last month, seven Democratic committee members said.

House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes has suggested Republicans would be well advised to avoid politicizing the intelligence authorizaton bill later this week in light of evidence that, he says, shows that the CIA "affirmatively lied to" the panel.

Latest hand-selected Michigan political news and analysis headlines At least he's not calling Obama an economic fascist : "If we start talking about freedom and personal control and personal opportunities to express opinions and choices, Republicans can be on the pathway to the same kind of success in 2010 that we enjoyed in 1994," Hoekstra said ...

It was a bill with volume and area Republicans in the U.S. House were hard pressed to see value in the American Clean Energy and Security Act passed on a 219-212 vote Friday evening.

Michigan 2nd District Congressman Pete Hoekstra will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Calhoun County Republicans Lincoln Day Celebration June 30 in the Branson Ballroom at the McCamly Plaza Hotel, 50 Capital Avenue SW, in Battle Creek, MI.

I'd say that this is a Sanford-free edition of the polling and political wrap-up, but we have fresh polling data, so that wouldn't be true... SC-Gov: Sanford Should Resign, According to Pair of New Polls Yesterday , we saw Mark Sanford's approval numbers pre-Argentina revelation, and we speculated how far they'd drop.

The brand-new top Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, said this morning that he's not wedded to the idea that states should test their students in reading and math once a year in grades 3-8. In fact, he thinks that states should get to decide how often to test kids and in what grades.

Transcript: Iran Roundtable on 'FNS' The following is a rush transcript of the June 21, 2009, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace." This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

Twitter users are having a ball grilling House representative Pete Hoekstra over a comment he made yesterday on the micro-blogging service .

IRAN: Over the weekend, street clashes in Iran reached a fever pitch. Protesters threw rocks at police, and gunfire could be heard on cell phone video beaming Iran's violence from the streets.

A parade of Republican lawmakers pressed President Obama on Sunday for stronger public support of Iranians protesting the outcome of the country's contested presidential election, with one senator calling the administration's approach "timid." But many Republican members of Congress held back vigorous criticism, agreeing with Democrats that the ...

U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., says he agrees with President Barack Obama's measured response to protests and street riots in Iran.

Reporting from Washington -- Criticized for failing to challenge the intelligence operations of the Bush administration, key lawmakers have endorsed a bill that would force the president to make fuller disclosure of covert spy programs.

A Republican Congressman is learning today that all it takes to make an Internet meme is stupidity.

The tweet that shall live in infamy. You can't make this stuff up: Representative Peter Hoekstra, a Republican from Michigan, set off a political-blog firestorm when he posted to his Twitter account on Wednesday that "Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House." Presumably he was ...