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Whale families communicate a lot underwater. So now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to try to figure out what they're saying.

After months of negotiation and recent prodding from President Bush, House Republicans are optimistic that a compromise has been reached on intelligence reform. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

President Bush endorses the 9-11 Commission's recommendations for the creation of a national intelligence director and counterterrorism center. But the offices will not be established inside the White House, as the commission proposed.

The Bush administration misused intelligence to justify decisions like going to war in Iraq, according to former senior CIA official Paul Pillar. From 2000 to 2005, Pillar was the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Christopher Zara of Fast Company, who has been following the company's forays into artificial intelligence.

Melissa Block talks with Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, about plans for hearings on the intelligence presented by the Bush administration on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the war.

Robert Siegel talks with Hugo Young, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. Young talks about the debate in Britain over whether intelligence on Iraqi wepaons of mass destruction was manipulated by 10 Downing Street in order to bolster support for war.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Frank Gaffney, former assistant Defense secretary in the Reagan administration, about the Sept. 11 Commission's purported recommendation to create a cabinet-level director of national intelligence. Gaffney is opposed to the idea.

A new study in the journal Child Development shows that if you teach students that their intelligence isn't fixed — that it can grow and increase — they do better in school.

In closed hearings, congressional panels probe whether intelligence reports on illegal arms in Iraq were exaggerated to justify going to war. And a British parliamentary committee looks at charges that Prime Minister Tony Blair's office manipulated key data to boost support for military action in Iraq. Hear NPR's David Welna and NPR's Guy Raz.