Bush To Give CIA Chief Temporarily Expanded Powers
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WASHINGTON, Aug 27  - US President George W. Bush will issue executive orders Friday to establish a national counter-terrorism center and temporarily expand the CIA director&#39;s powers to oversee intelligence, his spokesman said.
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President Bush will have a colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said
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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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President Bush, who had promised to  give a new national intelligence director "full budgetary  authority," submitted a plan to the U.S. Congress on Thursday  that stopped short of giving the director all of the powers  sought by the Sept. 11 commission, documents show.
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President Bush will announce that   about a dozen top foreign terrorism suspects held at secret CIA   prisons will be transferred to Department of Defense custody   and granted protections under the Geneva Conventions, ABC News   reported on Wednesday.
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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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In signing the bill last week to restructure the intelligence community and create the job of national intelligence director, President Bush vowed that the government&#39;s new superspy would have real power.
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Washington, August 28 (NNN): In view of the recommendations of the 9/11 probe panel, US President George Walker Bush has given the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director new powers, including some control over other intelligence agencies.
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The CIA directorwants to increase by 50 percent the number of clandestine operations officers and analysts to expand U.S. intelligence on terrorist networks and to counter the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.
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US President Bush is to transfer 14 foreign terrorism suspects from CIA custody ahead of trials, reports say.
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President Bush is urging Congress to create a strong national intelligence director to control the nonmilitary portions of the nation's intelligence community, a position similar to what was envisioned by the Sept. 11 commission.
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President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he would oppose another temporary extension of a law empowering U.S. spy agencies to track communications of terrorism suspects without a court order and pressed Congress for a long-term fix.
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President Bush this month is giving an obscure White House office new powers over regulations affecting health, worker safety and the environment. Calling it a power grab, Democrats running Congress are intent on stopping him.
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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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President Bush on Friday will sign a series of executive orders giving the CIA director some of the authority envisioned by the Sept.
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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