Source: POLITICO.com The Senate late Thursday confirmed James Clapper as director of national intelligence, breaking through Republican opposition that held up the nomination earlier this week. Clapper was confirmed by voice vote along with 47 executive branch nominees and four federal judges. The confirmation before the Senate leaves for its August recess had been uncertain [...]
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Source: POLITICO.com The Senate late Thursday confirmed James Clapper as director of national intelligence, breaking through Republican opposition that held up the nomination earlier this week. Clapper was confirmed by voice vote along with 47 executive branch nominees and four federal judges. The confirmation before the Senate leaves for its August recess had been uncertain [...]
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President Barack Obama’s choice for top U.S. spy declined on Thursday to call waterboarding “torture,” only days after his attorney general nominee condemned the interrogation practice as precisely that.
Retired Adm. Dennis Blair replied cautiously when pressed on the waterboarding question at a hearing on his nomination to be director of national intelligence, [...]
