Will More Power for Intelligence Chief Mean Better Results?
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Congress is close to approving a broad intelligence overhaul, but the changes that will matter most still lie ahead.
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Legislation to create a director of national intelligence, with responsibility to improve cooperation among US intelligence agencies in the hope of preventing terrorist
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Even as Congress revamps the nation's intelligence network, lawmakers appear intent on getting a new CIA chief in office before they adjourn next month for the November election.
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The bill, which would establish the post of national intelligence director, has powerful critics in both parties.
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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...
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A senior business figure is appointed to improve the running of MI6 in response to last year's Butler report.
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The chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee has unveiled an ambitious plan to overhaul US intelligence services. It includes creating a director of national intelligence post with broader powers than those envisioned by the White House.
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General Petraeus's drive against Sunni militants has got off to a much quicker start than past ones. But its success will depend on intelligence
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Many lawmakers are uneasy about creating a powerful intelligence director.
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Unwilling to concede defeat, congressional leaders expressed hope Sunday that lawmakers could return next month to resolve a turf battle that has blocked passage of an overhaul of the nation's intelligence agencies. Much depends on whether President Bush is more active in bringing his own troops in line, they said.
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If President Bush gets a second-term honeymoon, it may not last long. Or it may already be over. A failure in the coming days to win congressional passage of the intelligence reorganization bill he supports &#151; fretting House Republicans are standing in the way &#151; would not bode well for political bliss when the new Congress convenes next month.
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The top U.S. intelligence official is telling Congress it shouldn't succumb to pressure to roll back a new law that enhances the government's eavesdropping capability on terrorists as well as more traditional potential adversaries.
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WASHINGTON - Two influential Senate Republicans are putting forward competing proposals to change the intelligence community's leadership structure, despite words of caution from top Pentagon officials.    As Congress works through the August recess to consider recommendations from the Sept...
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WASHINGTON -- The government&#39;s top Defense and intelligence officials urged caution Tuesday in overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence hierarchy in response to a damning report from the 9/11 Commission.
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Legislation to revamp the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies moved closer to a vote and likely approval, perhaps as early as Tuesday in the House, as a leading Republican opponent announced he would support a compromise version.
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New powers for the CIA director and creation of a national counterterrorism center stop short of the type of intelligence reorganization urged by the 9/11 Commission and lawmakers.
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AUGUST 20, 2004  - As the debate about adding a national intelligence director proceeds, two government reports are shedding new light on an existing dilemma: If DHS CIO Steven Cooper can&#39;t wrestle the agency&#39;s sprawling bureaucracy into ...