Bush Signs Intelligence Overhaul Legislation
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President Bush on Friday signed legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of US intelligence agencies in a half century and creating a new director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept.
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Main components of the intelligence reorganization bill:
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WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to restructure the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies, sending the landmark legislation to the president&#39;s desk where it is slated to become law.
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Legislation to reorganize the US intelligence community has been approved by the US House of Representatives. The vote sets the stage for negotiations with the Senate on a final bill implementing recommendations
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The House last night overwhelmingly approved sweeping legislation to overhaul the way the nation collects intelligence, a rare bipartisan achievement
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President Bush issued a new order on Friday enhancing the powers of the director of central intelligence, but the White House said that new legislation was still needed
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President Bush yesterday said he would work with Congress to pass a bill overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence services for the struggle against
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President Bush on Wednesday signed a sweeping energy bill that he said would help the country become "stronger, cleaner and more secure."
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Under election-year pressure, President Bush agreed on Wednesday to give a new national intelligence director what he called full budgetary authority over much of the intelligence community despite initial objections.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a   bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of   foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W.   Bush to sign into law.
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President Bush yesterday signed legislation realigning the nation&#39;s spy agencies to meet the new terrorist threat, declaring the law represents the &quot;most dramatic reform&quot; of intelligence
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President Bush and Senate   Republicans reached an agreement on Thursday on a bill spelling   out rules to interrogate and try foreign terrorism suspects,   likely clearing the way for Congress to vote on the measure   next week.
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US President George W. Bush on Friday signed executive orders to strengthen the powers of the Central Intelligence Agency director and establish a new national counterterrorism center.
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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 signed into law yesterday the largest overhaul of US intelligence-gathering in 50 years in an effort to transform a system created for Cold War threats so it can deal effectively with post-Sept.
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President Bushâs remarks came after the Senate handed the White House a major victory in a vote on spy powers.
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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...