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FOXNews.com - Transcript: CIA Director John McLaughlin - FOX News Sunday | Chris Wallace MCLAUGHLIN: Well, all I can tell you, Chris, is that the president has asked me to serve as acting director. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, we know that the attacks we've disrupted were in the early planning stages to mount attacks in the United States. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, again, I want to stay out of politics here, but what I had in mind when I said that is not to say that we didn't have some roll in this — quite obviously we did — but that this was a very unique intelligence problem. www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,125998,00.html   (4350 words)

Newsmaker: John McLaughlin / Acting head of CIA facing huge challenges   (Site not responding. Last check: ) McLaughlin's friends and supporters are keeping their fingers crossed that he won't get crosswise with the Bush administration, members of Congress and just about anybody else in authority who has a beef about the intelligence failures of the past several years. Most dramatically, the CIA was surprised by the nuclear tests in India, North Korea's efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, the al-Qaida attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 and the 9/11 attacks. McLaughlin could be in the running to be the next CIA director, but it's not a sure thing. www.post-gazette.com /pg/04166/331541.stm   (908 words)

John McLaughlin (CIA) - The Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: ) John Edward McLaughlin (born June 15, 1942) is the former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence. McLaughlin himself stepped down as acting director on September 22, 2004, after Porter J. Goss was confirmed by the Senate to serve as the new director. McLaughlin is an accomplished magician and lectured on magic at the 2006 International Brotherhood of Magicians Annual Convention in Miami, Florida. www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/John_McLaughlin_%28CIA%29   (203 words)

Soon-to-be acting CIA director is a true magician McLaughlin, 61, is a world-class amateur magician whose sleight-of-hand has dazzled U.S. presidents and foreign leaders as well as crowds of children at a rural Virginia fair where he performs every year. Every trick appears effortless for McLaughlin, whether it is turning a $1 bill into a $100 bill inches away from astonished onlookers, or causing a deck of cards to levitate and split in two with a wave of his hand. McLaughlin graduated from Wittenberg University in Ohio in 1964 and later received a master's degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a specialty in European affairs. www.lists.opn.org /pipermail/org.opn.lists.skeptix/Week-of-Mon-20040607/000290.html   (649 words)

John E. McLaughlin CIA Director George Tenet has arrived there “with a briefcase stuffed with top-secret documents and plans, in many respects the culmination of more than four years of work on bin Laden, the al-Qaeda network and worldwide terrorism.” With him is his deputy, John McLaughlin, and counterterrorism chief Cofer Black. McLaughlin wants to be certain that Curveball won’t pop up after Colin Powell’s UN speech (see February 5, 2003) and say something to the press that would contradict the information presented by Powell. CIA Director George Tenet and Deputy Director John McLaughlin assure Colin Powell that the statements he will be making in his February 5 speech (see February 5, 2003) to the UN are backed by solid intelligence. www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=john_e._mclaughlin   (6286 words)

John E. McLaughlin, Former Acting CIA Director, Named Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow John E. McLaughlin, long-time official with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who rose to become acting director, has been named a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Strobe Talbott, president of the public policy research organization, and James B. Steinberg, vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies, announced today. McLaughlin rose to the positions of vice chairman for estimates, acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council, deputy director for intelligence, and deputy director of the agency, before becoming acting director in 2004. McLaughlin received his bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University and his master's degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, where he currently holds the position of senior fellow in the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. www.brookings.edu /comm/news/20050504_mclaughlin.htm   (367 words)

plastic surgery John_McLaughlin_ CIA - plastic-surgery-report.com   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The heraldic symbol of the CIA consists of a left-facing bald eagle head atop a shield emblazoned with a compass star (or compass rose). Former CIA Director Porter Goss, himself a former CIA officer, denies this has had a diminishing effect on morale, in favor of promoting his singular mission to reform the CIA into the lean and agile counter-terrorism focused force he believes it should be. On December 6, 2005, German Khalid El-Masri filed a lawsuit against former CIA Director George Tenet, claiming that he was transported from Macedonia to a prison in Afghanistan and held captive there by the CIA for 5 months on a case of mistaken identity. www.plastic-surgery-report.com /John_McLaughlin_%28CIA%29   (6023 words)

Man Who Succeeded Tenet at CIA Retiring In a statement Friday, McLaughlin, the CIA's deputy director and 32-year agency veteran, called his departure a ``purely personal decision'' and said it was time to move on to other endeavors. McLaughlin's ascension put him in line to field criticism from two reports highly critical of U.S. intelligence operations, the Sept. 11 Commission report and the Senate's investigation into the flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq. Officials painted McLaughlin's decision to retire from government as a natural one: A CIA official said McLaughlin thought the period of government transition after the election was a ``logical time to move on.'' McLaughlin plans to take time off while considering opportunities in the private sector, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. www.agonist.org /node/8878/print   (466 words)

Former CIA head describes agency as in a transition John McLaughlin, who stepped in as CIA director after George Tenet resigned in June 2004, was the keynote speaker at the Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club. McLaughlin served as Tenet's deputy from 2000-04, a period when the CIA was under fire for the way it monitored terrorist activity before Sept. 11, 2001, and for intelligence failures leading to the Iraq War. The rebuilding of the CIA is essential in keeping up with changes in population growth, international competition for energy resources and the lightning-speed development of technology, he said. www.marcoeagle.com /news/2006/apr/15/former_cia_head_describes_agency_transition/?print=1   (624 words)

Veteran CIA Official Named as Acting Director CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin, who is expected to step in as acting director in July when Director George Tenet leaves, has worked for the intelligence agency for more than 30 years, specializing in Europe and the former Soviet Union. John E. McLaughlin was sworn in as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on 19 October 2000. McLaughlin was appointed the Director of Slavic and Eurasian Analysis. www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2004/06-03-7.htm   (544 words)

No. 2 CIA official McLaughlin quits - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 13, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: ) CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin called his resignation a "purely personal decision" and said it was time to move on to other endeavors. McLaughlin's ascension put him in line to field criticism from two reports highly critical of U.S. intelligence operations, the September 11 commission report and the Senate's investigation into the flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq. McLaughlin thought the period of government transition after the election was a "logical time to move on." The director plans to take time off while considering opportunities in the private sector, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. www.washingtontimes.com /national/20041112-113809-5662r.htm   (378 words)

John E. McLaughlin - SourceWatch McLaughlin "was sworn in as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence on 19 October 2000. McLaughlin came to the CIA in 1972, and worked in the early part of his career on various European, Russian, and Eurasian issues in the Directorate of Intelligence. McLaughlin received his BA from Wittenberg University in 1964 and his MA from Paul H. Nitze Scool of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in 1966, with a specialty in European Affairs. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=John_E._McLaughlin   (608 words)

In the Media   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The White House said Monday that acting CIA Director John McLaughlin was expressing his personal opinion, and not necessarily the view of the administration, when he said there is no need for a new national intelligence chief. McLaughlin also said his agency has disrupted plots to mount attacks by air, sea and other methods in the United States, adding: "It's important to remember here that for these people, an attack in the United States is the brass ring." McLaughlin, a 30-year veteran of the agency, said he is not actively campaigning to become permanent CIA chief, but will serve as long as the president wants him to. www.defenddemocracy.org /in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=232992&attrib_id=7377   (717 words)

Deputy Chief Resigns From CIA (washingtonpost.com) John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said. The disruption comes as the CIA is trying to stay abreast of a worldwide terrorist threat from al Qaeda, a growing insurgency in Iraq, the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan and congressional proposals to reorganize the intelligence agencies. The CIA declined to comment on the issues raised by the current and former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A46580-2004Nov12.html   (723 words)

Facing shift, CIA chooses limelight and defends turf - The Boston Globe But in a serious message to CIA staff members, who are on the front lines in the war on terrorism, he said he considered telling their side of the story to be one of his primary jobs. Perhaps most striking was McLaughlin's comments last month that he was lukewarm to the Sept. 11 commission's recommendation that a new national director of intelligence be established to oversee all spy agencies, a role now filled by the CIA director, before President Bush had an opportunity to weigh in on the proposal. Agency officials say the public's greater access to high-level CIA officials and analysts, and the greater willingness of the historically secretive organization to acknowledge its part in recent successes in the war on terrorism, are not part of a new long-term policy at the CIA. www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/08/06/facing_shift_cia_chooses_limelight   (1110 words)

CIA chief: New intelligence czar unnecessary Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin said Sunday that a new Cabinet-level chief to oversee all U.S. intelligence agencies is unnecessary. But McLaughlin said he would "lean against" appointing a new national director of intelligence to oversee the country's 15 intelligence agencies, because he said that with minor adjustments the CIA director could easily fulfill the needs the report describes. The committee was highly critical of the CIA in a report issued July 9 on the agency's prewar estimates of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, saying their conclusions were overstated and unsupported by intelligence. www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-07/19/content_349673.htm   (746 words)

Bush Announces CIA Director George Tenet's Resignation Besides the CIA, the director of Central Intelligence has responsibility for government-wide intelligence from 13 government entities: all the military services; the Defense Intelligence Agency; the departments of Homeland Security, State, Energy, and Treasury; the FBI; the National Security Agency; the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; and the National Reconnaissance Office. McLaughlin is a former Army infantry officer who served in Southeast Asia. He will serve at the CIA as the director until mid-July, at which time the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McLaughlin, will serve as the acting director. www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2004/06-03-3.htm   (440 words)

Voices of September 11th   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-acting CIA Director John McLaughlin rejected the idea — McLaughlin quite viscerally — when the commission issued its final report this summer. The operations can be handled by CIA paramilitary teams or units out of the Pentagon, such as the Green Berets or Delta Force. Rumsfeld, however, was initially less committal on the proposal, saying he is not sure the CIA's control over paramilitary operations is a problem that needs fixing. www.voicesofsept11.org /911ic/112304b.htm   (417 words)

Intelligence 'czar' not needed, CIA chief says - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - July 19, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The acting head of the CIA yesterday said there is no need to create a national security "czar" to oversee the nation's intelligence community — something the commission investigating the September 11 attacks is expected to recommend this week. McLaughlin yesterday said several of the suicide-hijackers had passed through Iran on their way to the United States to execute the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. McLaughlin's appearance on national television yesterday came amid a series of remarks he has made on news talk shows during the past week, signaling a significant shift in public-relations tactics by the CIA. www.washtimes.com /national/20040719-124722-4029r.htm   (794 words)

USATODAY.com - Tenet resigns as CIA director   (Site not responding. Last check: ) WASHINGTON — CIA director George Tenet's resignation was announced by President Bush on Thursday, ending a seven-year tenure marked by criticism of the agency's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and its inaccurate judgment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. CIA Director George Tenet testifies in April before the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The CIA is expected to be harshly criticized in the final report due July 26 from the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks. www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-06-03-tenet_x.htm   (730 words)

CIA disputes Bush's Iran-9/11 connection, 20 Jul 04 McLaughlin had said Sunday that although "about eight" of the Sept. 11 hijackers may have passed through Iran before their mission, the CIA had "no evidence that there is some sort of official connection between Iran and 9/11." McLaughlin acknowledged on "Fox News Sunday" that "a good argument" could be made for such consolidation, but added that it was unnecessary because the CIA already had taken steps toward reform since Sept. 11 and because a restructuring would impose additional bureaucracy on the system. That may be in part because McLaughlin was in a senior position at the agency during a stretch that included the failure to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks and the erroneous assessments that Iraq had stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons and had restarted its nuclear weapons program. www.notinourname.net /war/iran-20jul04.htm   (902 words)

CNN.com - CNN exclusive interview with John McLaughlin - Jul 14, 2004 WASHINGTON -- Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin spoke with CNN's Wolf Blitzer Wednesday about the Senate Intelligence Committee's scathing report criticizing the agency, the threat of a possible al Qaeda attack against the United States this summer and the future of the CIA. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, I think when we talk about stockpiles, one mistake I think we made was to create the image that when we went into Iraq we would find large quantities of these weapons. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, we had sources in Iraq, and as the director has pointed out and as our director of operations has noted, the problem was that our sources were largely on the periphery of the problem. www.cnn.com /2004/US/07/14/transcript.mclaughlin/index.html   (3715 words)

John McLaughlin Biography John E. McLaughlin is a Senior Fellow in the Merrill Center for Strategic CIA's analysis of the fifteen independent states that emerged from the USSR. McLaughlin is the recipient of many awards in the Intelligence tulsagrad.ou.edu /csdc/McLaughlin.html   (402 words)

FRONTLINE: the dark side: interviews: john mclaughlin | PBS And he talks about the lessons the CIA learned from its intelligence failures and its involvement in the politicization of the intelligence process during this period. But the irony here is, of course, what no one gives the CIA credit for is that we hired him to ask him to go find the truth and did not hinder that effort and accepted the truth and applauded it and have now learned lessons from it. If the CIA builds on the central and enduring ethic, it will be a very sound institution for years to come. www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/interviews/mclaughlin.html   (7588 words)

Senators urge president to pick new CIA director - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - July 12, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin became the agency's acting director after George J. Tenet, who was appointed by President Clinton in 1997, announced last month he was resigning for personal reasons and stepped down yesterday. McLaughlin is skilled and has experience, but he is an "acting" director. Goss, a CIA case officer during the 1960s and early 1970s, was being considered by the Bush administration as a potential nominee. www.washtimes.com /national/20040712-121949-6339r.htm   (773 words)

CIA refuses to release historical budget data (9/17/04) Government Executive John McLaughlin, who serves as acting director of both Central Intelligence and the CIA, told a federal court this week that releasing such information might damage U.S. national security by giving adversaries sensitive information about sources and methods. "I have carefully considered the ramifications of releasing the total CIA budgets for fiscal years 1947 to 1970 and a few budget numbers from other agencies for fiscal year 1947," McLaughlin wrote in a letter to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. McLaughlin said the CIA possesses budget information on total CIA budgets for all but one year between 1947 through 1970, but does not possess budget information for the overall intelligence community or other agencies for those years. www.govexec.com /story_page.cfm?articleid=29483&ref=rellink   (546 words)

War and Piece:   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Tyler Drumheller, former chief of the CIA Europe division, and James Pavitt, former deputy director of operations, insist that their bosses, then CIA director George Tenet and deputy John McLaughlin, were informed that Curveball was a fabricator, and had no idea that so much weight was being given by the White House to Curveball's information. But CIA bioweapons analysts, he said, "were saying: 'We still think he's worthwhile.' " Pavitt said he didn't convey his own doubts to Tenet because he didn't know until after the March 2003 invasion of Iraq that Curveball was "of such import" in prewar CIA assessments provided to the president, Congress and the public. McLaughlin, who retired in January after 32 years at the CIA, said he did not recall the meeting and denied that Drumheller told him Curveball might be a fabricator. www.warandpiece.com /blogdirs/001834.html   (814 words)

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