Intelligence reform stalled by GOP foes
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Legislation to reshape the intelligence community collapsed yesterday as conservative House Republicans refused to embrace a compromise because they said
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The Sept. 11 commission's call for reforming congressional oversight of intelligence and homeland security faces powerful resistance in Congress, with some key lawmakers all but declaring it dead on arrival.
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Congressional hearings raised more questions than answers about impending organizational changes in the intelligence community and their impact on efforts to improve the nation's antiterror fight.
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WASHINGTON - House Republicans on Saturday blocked passage of legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commissionâs terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush, but GOP leaders said they would con-tinue to press the effort this year.
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US lawmakers have failed to pass a White House-backed bill that would have made major changes to the country&#39;s intelligence agencies.
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WASHINGTON (CBS) In a defeat for President Bush, rebellious House Republicans on Saturday derailed legislation to overhaul the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies along lines recommended by the Sept.
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U.S. House of Representatives  Republican leaders pushed ahead on Thursday with plans to pass  their version of a spy agency overhaul despite warnings that  controversial immigration provisions could snarl the bill in a  showdown with the Senate.
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WASHINGTON - 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."   Critics began aligning to fight the proposal that would represent the most significant overhaul of U.S...
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President Bush, who opposed creation  of the Sept. 11 commission, may have to confront his own party  in Congress if he wants the panel's main intelligence reform  recommendation enacted this year, analysts and officials say.
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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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Republicans and Democrats on  Wednesday clashed over whether Porter Goss was the right man to  lead the CIA through intelligence reform as President Bush's  nominee moved toward winning Senate confirmation.
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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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An intelligence reorganization bill appeared no closer to passage Sunday than it did on November 20, when objections from Republican committee chairmen pulled it from the floor.
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U.S. lawmakers said on Friday it was  increasingly unlikely they could deliver a measure to overhaul  U.S. spy agencies to President Bush by the Nov. 2 elections, a  delay some supporters said could imperil the post Sept. 11  reforms.
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The Republican chairman of the  Senate Intelligence Committee on Sunday blamed the White House  and Pentagon for resisting intelligence reform and gave the  U.S. Congress a failing grade for not passing legislation.
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If President Bush fails to strong-arm stubborn House Republicans into passing an intelligence reform bill this week, other elements of his agenda will also be put in jeopardy, the head of the Sept.
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Washington -- A fierce dispute over the powers of a new national intelligence director threatened Friday to derail congressional negotiations aimed at completing an intelligence reform bill before the Nov. 2 elections.