1.   Bush grew angry after some sensitive material from congressional briefings made their way into news media reports.

2.   Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Tx., look at the damaged Pentagon during a congressional briefing Wednesday afternoon.

3.   The issue has also been raised in closed-door congressional briefings by the CIA, Bennett said.

4.   Wallace made a pile of misleading statements, but not in congressional briefings on a national security scandal.

5.   President George W. Bush, in a breakfast meeting with chastened U.S. lawmakers Wednesday, backed off his decision severely restricting congressional briefings on the war against terrorists.

6.   President George W. Bush, in a breakfast meeting with chastened U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, backed off his decision severely restricting congressional briefings on the war against terrorists.

7.   The idea is to be brought up during the congressional briefings, the report said.

8.   Coldren, speaking on human rights in Afghanistan at a congressional briefing, said the United States will not recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.