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• GridPoint Appoints New Advisors, Electric Vehicle Pioneer Kenneth R. Baker and Former CIA Director George J. Tenet

  - 2008-10-22

  WASHINGTON -- GridPoint Inc., a leading clean tech company whose smart grid software platform benefits electric utilities, consumers and the environment, announced the appointment of electric vehicle pioneer Kenneth R. Baker and former Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet to its board of advisors. "With the arrival of...

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• Jose Rodriguez, Former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, Joins National Interest Security Company

  - 2008-10-07

  FAIRFAX, Va. -- National Interest Security Company, LLC, ("NISC") announced today that Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA National Clandestine Service, has joined NISC as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Rodriguez will immediately bolster NISC's capabilities in helping the company's intelligence community, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland...

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• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

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• Bush orders overhaul of US intelligence

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush has given his national intelligence director greater powers to manage rival US spy agencies as part of an overhaul driven by past intelligence failures, White House documents released Thursday show. The authorities were spelled out in revised executive order 13355, which...

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• Upbeat CIA assessment on Al-Qaeda challenged

  - 2008-05-30

  WASHINGTON, May 30, 2008 AFP — CIA director Michael Hayden came under stiff challenge for portraying Al-Qaeda as on the defensive after global setbacks, even in its safe havens along the Afghan-Pakistani border. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, said Hayden's upbeat appraisal was not consistent with intelligence assessments...

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• L-1 Identity Solutions Adds New Head of Washington DC Federal Operation

  - 2008-04-10

  STAMFORD, Conn. -- L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:ID), a leading provider of identity solutions and services, today appointed Joanne Isham to lead its Washington DC office and federal business operation. Joanne brings significant experience in the private sector, as well as decades of experience within various federal government agencies, including...

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• Press Briefing by Tony Fratto

  - 2008-02-06

  WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:35 P.M. EST MR. FRATTO: Good afternoon, everyone. I think you saw the President's comments earlier today. As you know, our thoughts and prayers are with the people who lost loved ones in the devastating storms that struck numerous states...

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• US has used waterboarding in past: ex-spy chief

  - 2008-01-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — Former US spy chief John Negroponte admitted that the United States has used a controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding but does not anymore, according to a published interview Monday. Negroponte, who currently serves as deputy secretary of state, told the National Journal that the country...

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• Fortified Holdings Appoints Former CIA Information Chief Alan Wade to Advisory Board

  - 2008-01-29

  Fortified Holdings Corp. (OTCBB: FFDH) ("Fortified" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the immediate appointment of Alan Wade to the corporate Advisory Board. Mr. Wade retired from federal service in 2005 after a thirty-five-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He retired as the agency's Chief Information Officer,...

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• Tracking A Paper Trail

  - 2007-12-24

  In the summer of 2005, the then CIA Director Porter Goss met with the then National Intelligence Director John Negroponte to discuss a highly sensitive matter: what to do about the existence of videotapes documenting the use of controversial interrogation methods, apparently including waterboarding, on two key Qaeda suspects. The...

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