Bush Expands CIA&#39;s Intelligence-Gathering Powers
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Description: By executive order, President Bush grants more powers to the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, one of the many recommendations of the 9-11 Commission.
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President Bush on Friday signed  legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of U.S.  intelligence agencies in a half century and creating a new  director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks.
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This important book points out that the Bush White House has repeatedly sought to expand its powers, often doing so in secret, while sidelining Congress and the judiciary.
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President Bush said Saturday his newly enacted changes in the nation&#39;s intelligence community will &quot;improve America&#39;s ability to find, track and stop dangerous
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President Bush on Friday signed executive orders designed to strengthen the CIA director&#39;s power over the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies and create a national counterterrorism center, responding to election-year pressures to enact changes called for by
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A White House spokesman says President Bush will announce Friday significant reforms to the US intelligence apparatus. The spokesman says those reforms will include temporarily boosting the powers of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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New powers for the CIA director and creation of a national counterterrorism center stop short of the type of intelligence reorganization urged by the 9/11 Commission and lawmakers.
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The CIA chief may have eyes on being the new national intelligence director
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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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President Bush on Friday signed  legislation authorizing the biggest overhaul of U.S.  intelligence agencies in more than 50 years and creating a new  director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks.
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President Bush, locked in an  election year battle over national security, on Friday will  give the post of CIA director some of the broad authority that  the Sept. 11 commission envisioned for a new intelligence czar.
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President Bush shifted his stance today on how much power a new national intelligence director should have.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Saturday his newly enacted changes in the nation's intelligence community will "improve America's ability to find, track and stop dangerous terrorists," while Democratic critics said the election-season moves fall short of what is needed.    The president said the four executive orders he signed Friday, which give the CIA director additional power over the intelligence community until a new post of national intelligence director is created, establish a national counterterrorism center and promote intelligence-sharing across the government, "reflect specific recommendations" of an independent commission that investigated the Sept...
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WASHINGTON - 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.    The moves will "improve our ability to find, track and stop terrorists," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said...
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In response to recommendations by the 9/11 panel, President Bush signed executive orders Friday that sources say strengthen the hand of the CIA director and create a national counterrorism center.
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President Bush, embroiled in a fierce campaign battle over national security, on Friday expanded the power of the CIA director to include some of the broad authority that the Sept.
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President Bush, the son of a former CIA director, has embraced a short-term fix for the CIA that -- surprise! -- gives the CIA director more power.