After one year in Washington, Sen. Mike Johanns has come to understand the limitations of toiling in the minority.

Congress created the project nearly 10 years ago when legislation sponsored by Reps. Ron Kind, Amo Houghton and Steny Hoyer and Sens. Max Cleland and Chuck Hagel received unanimous support and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on Oct. 27, 2000.

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President Barack Obama named retired Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, to co-chair the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Obama named retired U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, to co-chair the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday named University of Oklahoma President David Boren as co-chairman of his Intelligence Advisory Board and said that he was looking for "objective, independent and nonpartisan counsel.”Boren will lead the panel with former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, the president said. The position is unpaid and part-time and Boren said in an interview that he wasn ...

The goal of the board is to provide "thoughtful, informed and independent advice" to the president regarding America's intelligence-gathering agencies and how they can best work effectively to collect and share information to make critical decisions.

Chuck Hagel will co-chair the President's Intelligence Advisory Board

President Barack Obama Thursday restored an independent intelligence advisory agency's authority to tell the attorney general if it thinks that a U.S. intelligence agency may have broken the law, a move intended to improve oversight of those agencies.

President Barack Obama Thursday restored an independent intelligence advisory agency's authority to tell the attorney general if it thinks that a U.S. intelligence agency may have broken the law, a move intended to improve oversight of those agencies. That... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Attorney general - United States - Intelligence - President Barack Obama