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Rep . Silvestre Reyes on how WikiLeaks affects war in Afghanistan
The bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. o...
President Obama's National Security Council has taken control of all the informational briefings on the Fort Hood shooting and ordered that congressional leaders alo...
The acting director of national intelligence has resigned, effective at the end of August, U.S. officials said Thursday, raising concerns that vacancies in the upper...
CIA Director Leon Panetta has terminated a "very serious" covert program the spy agency kept secret from Congress for eight years, Rep. Jan Schakowsky , a House Inte...
The brazen attack that killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in Afghanistan is likely to raise questions about whether the agency could do more to protect i...
The House Intelligence Committee will launch an investigation to determine whether the CIA broke the law by not informing Congress earlier about a secret plan to tra...
Vice President Dick Cheney has long been a target of Democrats for his role in developing and implementing the Bush White House's anti-terror policies, and Democrati...
President-elect Barack Obama impressed scholars, historians and even Republicans as he quickly filled up his Cabinet and made top appointments with little drama in t...
A congressman said Wednesday that about six Marines would be charged in the killing of 24 civilians, many of them women and children, last year in the Iraqi town of ...
Some lawmakers are calling anew for the U.S. to relax its immigration laws -- not to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants, but to ensure statistical accuracy.The ...
Rep. Raul Grijalva says he feels like he's been in a "telenovela" — a steamy Spanish-language soap opera — as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus wrestles with a nasty...
WASHINGTON -- Government officials say the Justice Department is considering dropping its case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally disclosin...
An independent House panel has concluded that there is substantial reason to believe Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, violated ethics rules and federal law by conducti...
In a stunning upset, Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) lost a primary challenge Tuesday to former El Paso City Councilman Beto O'Rourke. Reyes becomes the sixth, longtime ...
Three U.S. Border Patrol agents responding to an alarm from an underground sensor were apparently in radio contact as they approached from opposite directions before...
The applause rolled through the big chamber, growing ever louder as hundreds of Republicans and Democrats suddenly realized Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was back in the H...
A Texas lawmaker is calling for the victims of the Fort Hood massacre to be legally recognized as combatant casualties, a distinction that could intensify a debate o...
Despite mounting criticism of a proposed covert CIA program to have teams capture or kill targeted Al Qaeda leaders, Democrats sounding the alarms say they're more c...
EL PASO, Texas -- Federal authorities are investigating why a Mexican drone was in Texas airspace and what caused the unmanned surveillance aircraft to crash into a ...