Gen. Mark Welsh has been nominated to serve as the Air Force‘s next chief of staff, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced in a release Thursday. If confirmed, Welsh would succeed Gen. Norton
MoreLetitia Long is director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a position she has held since August 2010. Long became the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency when she joined
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The top two U.S. intelligence chiefs told a joint Congressional intelligence committee hearing Tuesday al-Qaida is weaker 10 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, but is still a threat and that domestic
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In its second week post-recess, Congress has committees scheduled to hold public hearings marking the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. At 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee is scheduled to
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David Petraeus, the recently retired Army general who served as top commander in both Afghanistan and Iraq, was sworn in Tuesday as director of the CIA. Petraeus becomes the 20th director in
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Army Gen. David Petraeus will begin his new assignment as CIA director Tuesday, after receiving unanimous confirmation in June from the Senate. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
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