Senator offers plan for powerful intelligence chief
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WASHINGTON A key Republican senator unveiled what he called &quot;a very bold plan&quot; Sunday to remake US intelligence agencies.
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A key Republican's proposal to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a national intelligence director met immediate and broad resistance Monday. A top Senate Democrat called it a "severe mistake" and the agency's former director said it showed a "dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence."
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Congress detailed plans Wednesday to move quickly on reorganization of the nation's intelligence community, with House leaders promising action before the Nov. 2 election and Senate leaders saying they want a new intelligence director to control most of the nation's intelligence budget.
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The Bush administration has yet to name a new national intelligence director, and the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat says he wants an explanation. The position, created in last year's intelligence reorganization bill, has been open for more than eight weeks.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee unveiled a radical proposal yesterday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence gathering operations from the
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GOVERNMENT:The legislation, expected to pass the Senate today, creates a national intelligence director who will oversee more than a dozen agencies.
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Leading Republicans and Democrats in  the U.S. Congress introduced legislation on Tuesday that would  create a new intelligence director and implement other  recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.
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WASHINGTON - The White House unveiled plans Wednesday to give a new national intelligence director strong budgetary authority over much of the nation's intelligence community, a key provision in the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations...
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The Republican congressman chosen by  President Bush to head the CIA sought on Tuesday to assure  Democrats that he would leave politics behind and lead the spy  agency in a nonpartisan manner.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate prepared Wednesday to fulfill an election year promise by approving a massive reorganization of the U.S. intelligence network in line with some recommendations the Sept...
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President Bush presented Congress on Thursday with legislation to create a strong national intelligence director with authority to control the nonmilitary portions of the nation's intelligence budget.
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WASHINGTON--Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has said for the past few weeks that he probably would vote against a national intelligence bill if is not changed before it comes back to the Senate.
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The plan would give the proposed national director responsibility for intelligence-gathering of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
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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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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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New intelligence czar Michael McConnell checked off homeland-security threats in a Senate briefing Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Republican senators proposed removing the largest intelligence bodies from the Central Intelligence Agency, in a move that would essentially dismantle the beleaguered agency.