Bush Expands Powers of CIA Chief
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The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency will have broad new powers under a plan by President Bush to streamline intelligence gathering in an era of terrorist threats.
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President Bush, embroiled in a  fierce campaign 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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United States President George Bush signed his name Friday to a dramatic overhaul of US intelligence gathering, creating a brand new 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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President Bush has signed an executive order giving the White House more say over how federal departments and agencies carry out laws approved by Congress.
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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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President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watchlists.
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WASHINGTON -- US President George W. Bush signed executive orders yesterday designed to strengthen the CIA director&#39;s power over US intelligence agencies and create a national counter-terrorism centre, responding to election-year pressure to enact changes
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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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President Bush will issue an executive order today that will grant more power to the director of central intelligence.
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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 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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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.
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President George W. Bush signed into law a bill creating a director to oversee US intelligence gathering and making other changes the Sept.
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FORT MEADE, Maryland  - President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to expand the government's domestic spying powers permanently or risk leaving the country vulnerable to another terrorist attack.
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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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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.