The CIA underwent several changes at the close of 2004, and the resignations of a number of high-ranking CIA officers in November, as well as the content of a memo by new CIA Director Porter Goss to agency employees, appear to confirm a claim by Newsday that the White House was planning a purge at...

The Bush White House’s use of unreliable information in building its case for war with Iraq prompted continued congressional calls for a full investigation after CIA Director George Tenet’s July 16 closed-door testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.  The intelligence chief took responsibility for a highly questionable claim about Iraq’s alleged nuclear-weapons program in President...