Bush should have tackled reform before naming CIA boss: lawmaker
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee urged fellow lawmakers not to allow confirmation hearings on a new CIA director to derail efforts to overhaul US spy agencies.
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Despite its flaws, the intelligence reform bill awaiting the president&#39;s signature is a major step toward improving the nation&#39;s ability to prevent future terrorist attacks.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; Defying their leadership and direct appeals from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, two powerful House Republicans on Saturday blocked intelligence reform legislation that would put a single director in charge of the nation's spy agencies.
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Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), 65, is caught up in a complicated nomination for the CIA's chief. Amid proposals for intelligence reform, his job title and duties remain unclear.
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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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President Bush, the son of a former CIA director, has embraced a short-term fix for the CIA that -- surprise! -- gives the CIA director more power.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called Monday for President Bush and his secretary of defense to personally reach out to opponents of intelligence reform.
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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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The chairman of the U.S. military's  Joint Chiefs of Staff has asked lawmakers to give less budget  authority to the national intelligence director than has been  proposed by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11  attacks and backed publicly by the White House.
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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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Legislation to reform the US intelligence system after the September 11 attacks and failures in Iraq has fallen victim to partisan wrangling, endangering lawmakers' goal of sending a bill to the White House before the November 2 election.
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President Bush stepped up pressure  on Congress on Wednesday to cut a deal to reform U.S. spy  agencies, and sources close to the negotiations said a new  national intelligence director appeared unlikely to get the  full powers sought by the Sept. 11 commission.
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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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In a defeat for President George W. Bush, rebellious Republicans in the House of Representatives derailed legislation Saturday to overhaul US intelligence agencies along lines recommended by the Sept.
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The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned on Tuesday whether President Bush&#39;s choice to head the CIA was too partisan to be able to restore credibility to US intelligence services.
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President Bush on Tuesday embraced a  stalled bill to overhaul U.S. spy agencies as "necessary and  important," and said he hoped Congress would pass the measure  next week before it adjourns for the year.
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After clearing the House of Representatives, landmark legislation to revamp the US intelligence network heads for an expected approval in the Senate before President George W. Bush signs it into law.