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...name of a respected former CIA operations chief as Hayden's prospective No. 2 to emphasizing his liberal arts background and calling him "An Independent Thinker And A Nonconformist" in a White House fact sheet, the campaign was intended to assuage doubts expressed by House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and some Senate Republicans about installing the Air Force general atop the nation's civilian spy agency...
...Hoekstra, while praising Hayden in general, said that naming a military officer to head the CIA, where the current deputy director is a Navy admiral, would send the wrong signal. "Our nation needs to maintain a balance between intelligence support to the military and long-term intelligence support to policymakers. By placing a military officer atop the CIA, we risk losing this balance, and we risk losing the critical, civilian intelligence analysis that policymakers need when making foreign policy decisions," Hoekstra said...
...spokesman for House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra applauded the break - branding the former employee's unauthorized disclosure an illegal leak and calling for its prosecution. Jamal Ware said Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, "applauds the diligent and hard work done by the CIA to identify this person who took it upon themselves to illegally leak our nation's secrets. Chairman Hoekstra is fully supportive of any and all efforts to prosecute this person and anyone else who illegally discloses our national secrets." Ware called the rare identification of a leaker "a solid victory in the effort to halt illegal leaks...
...comment. But the case is a concern on Capitol Hill. "The timeline," says a spokesman for House Intelligence Committee chair Peter Hoekstra, "will be reviewed." --By Brian Bennett and Timothy J. Burger
...defunct panel to conduct an investigation last week before issuing a statement late Friday saying members had received only an 11th-hour mention of Atta that ?was not sufficiently reliable to warrant revision of the report or further investigation.? Meanwhile, at Weldon?s request, House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra told TIME he is investigating the matter but cautioned against ?hyperventilating? before the completion of a ?thorough? probe...