Bush to give CIA chief new powers
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President Bush will give the CIA director new powers as he sets up a counter-terrorism centre, the White House says.
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President Bush said Wednesday he wants Congress to expand and make permanent a law that temporarily gives the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on suspected foreign terrorists.
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President Bush presented Congress on Thursday with legislation to create a strong national intelligence director with authority to control the nonmilitary portions of the nation's intelligence budget.
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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of terrorism suspects, has issued new rules to ensure that detention and interrogation by the CIA comply with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture.
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The CIA chief may have eyes on being the new national intelligence director
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But he also cautioned it may take longer than the past CIA director's estimate to hire and train all the operatives needed worldwide to combat terrorism and other threats...
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President Bush signed executive orders and directives yesterday bolstering the authority of the CIA director over the nation's intelligence programs and budgets, signaling a renewed effort by the White House to shape the national security debate roiling Congress and the presidential campaign.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush signed into law Friday the most sweeping changes in US intelligence operations in five decades, aiming to overhaul a system built for the Cold War and adapt it to a new generation of threats brought home by the attacks of Sept
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President Bush has ordered CIA Director Porter Goss to increase by 50 percent the number of qualified CIA clandestine operators and intelligence analysts.
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WASHINGTON -- Administration and congressional officials say George W. Bush&#39;s White House has drafted executive orders to implement two key recommendations of the 9/11 commission -- a more powerful intelligence director and a new national counterterrorism
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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Friday signed executive orders designed to strengthen the CIA director's power over the nation's intelligence agencies and create a national counterterrorism center, responding to election-year pressures to enact changes called for by the Sept. 11 commission...
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Amid a heated election-year debate on intelligence reform, President Bush prepared to sign executive orders Friday strengthening the powers of the CIA director and establishing a new national counterterrorism center.
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The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency will have broad new powers under a plan by President Bush to streamline intelligence gathering in an era of terrorist threats.
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The president would allow the new national intelligence director less direct control over clandestine operations at home and abroad than the CIA director has now.
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US President George Bush has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to hire and train thousands of new spies, the Washington Post said Wednesday.
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President Bush is signing into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years, hoping to improve the spy network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.
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US President George W. Bush on Friday signed into law the biggest US intelligence overhaul in more than 50 years, including the creation of a new national intelligence chief to oversee the country&#39;s spy network.