Political dispute threatens intelligence reform bill
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Washington -- A fierce dispute over the powers of a new national intelligence director threatened Friday to derail congressional negotiations aimed at completing an intelligence reform bill before the Nov. 2 elections.
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Talks over legislation to reform  U.S. spy agencies after the failures exposed by the Sept. 11  attacks stalled on Wednesday in acrimony, with Democrats  accusing President Bush of "failed leadership."
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The powerful chairman of the US Senate intelligence committee has promised to introduce this week a new intelligence reorganization bill likely to set Congress on a collision course with the White House, which favors an intelligence "czar" with vaguely defined powers.
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With House-Senate negotiators scheduled to start resolving major differences in two bills to restructure the nation's intelligence community, the White House has criticized key portions of each plan.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 18, 2004  Two influential Senate Republicans are putting forward competing proposals to change the intelligence community&#39;s leadership structure, despite words of caution from top Pentagon officials.
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Key legislators on opposite sides of the deadlocked effort to reorganize the nation's intelligence community said Monday they will not compromise their positions to give Congress a chance to pass the measure at a special two-day session early next month.
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Two issues have House Republicans tied in a knot on the intelligence bill President Bush says he wants: military control of spy satellites and provisions that, some lawmakers say, let terrorists shield themselves with claims of political asylum.
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For all the changes in the intelligence bill, many question whether it will help prevent another terrorist attack and make the major improvements promised by ardent supporters.
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WASHINGTON  - Congressional efforts to pass intelligence reform will mark a major test of President George W. Bush&#39;s clout with his Republican Party to push his ambitious second-term agenda, supporters of the bill said.
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A battle between President Bush and Congress over immigration policies and related security concerns continues in the wake of lawmakers&#39; approval of a hard-fought bill to revamp the nation&#39;s intelligence network.
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An intelligence reorganization bill appeared no closer to passage Sunday than it did on November 20, when objections from Republican committee chairmen pulled it from the floor.
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A bill backed by President Bush to overhaul American spy agencies faced an uncertain future on Sunday and a top Democrat said the Republican-led Congress should not adjourn for the year until it passes.
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The fate of an overhaul of U.S. intelligence agencies rests with President Bush, who must exert more pressure on holdout Republicans if he wants compromise legislation to pass this year, a lead Senate negotiator said Sunday.
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Congress may have put off immigration issues for now, in the hopes of passing the intelligence reform bill, but a battle over immigration policy may be looming right around the corner.
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WASHINGTON - Some lawmakers are opposing a new intelligence bill prompted by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, complaining that Republicans refused to work with their Democratic colleagues to craft a balanced bill that would represent both viewpoints...
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Congressional negotiators Monday cleared the way for a final vote on a sweeping intelligence reform measure, reaching a compromise over the authority that a new national
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The new proposal by eight Republican senators to break up the CIA and the Pentagon&#39;s virtual lock on intelligence met with sharp opposition yesterday