Bush Orders Review of Covert Operations
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President Bush has ordered an  internal review into whether the Defense Department should run  covert paramilitary operations traditionally mounted by the  CIA, administration officials said on Tuesday.
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Bemoaning an election-year leak,   President George W. Bush on Tuesday said he would declassify a   secret terrorism document that included a judgment the Iraq war   had spread Islamic extremism.
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President Bush has agreed conditionally to let a court review his eavesdropping operations under a deal that, for the first time, would open an important part of his once-secret terrorism surveillance to a constitutional test.
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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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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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AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq  - President George W. Bush flew to Iraq with his security chiefs on Monday to meet the U.S. commander for a final review of the war before a showdown in Congress over troop levels.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan -- President Bush instructed top homeland and national security advisers on Saturday to &quot;take all actions that might be necessary&quot; to respond to the new message from Osama bin Laden, the White House said.
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President Bush has signed an executive order giving the White House more say over how federal departments and agencies carry out laws
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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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The Bush administration, facing withering criticism over its temporary foreign intelligence wiretap law, has launched a campaign to assure Democratic lawmakers that the law will not result in domestic surveillance without a court order, and at the same time it has indicated that it is willing to ...
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President Bush has ordered up new measures to bolster the CIA in combating weapons of mass destruction and other threats, directing an agency that lawmakers have accused of engaging in "group think" to present "diverse views" to policy-makers.
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WASHINGTON President George W. Bush is preparing to issue an executive order that would immediately grant more power to the director of central intelligence, designating him to fill much of the role envisioned for a future national intelligence director
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President Bush urged Congress today to give him "additional authority" to carry out a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program directed against international terrorists and to approve "broader reforms" in the 1978 law that regulates domestic surveillance of foreign agents' communications.
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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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President Bush stepped up pressure on Congress on Saturday to approve an overhaul of the nation&#39;s intelligence operations, just two days before lawmakers return to try again to approve the reforms.
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US President George W. Bush has directed to investigate the missing of powerful explosives from one of Iraq&#39;s most sensitive former military installations and the US-led
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush's homeland security adviser said yesterday that the United States was prepared to take additional measures, including military force, to curb Al Qaeda's operations in remote regions of Pakistan.