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 on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
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President Bush submitted a plan to Congress yesterday that gives a new national intelligence director authority over much of the intelligence community, but not the full powers sought by the Sept.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush signed into law Friday the most sweeping changes in US intelligence operations in five decades, aiming to overhaul a system built for the Cold War and adapt it to a new generation of threats brought home by the attacks of Sept
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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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President Bush said Saturday his newly enacted changes in the nation&#39;s intelligence community will &quot;improve America&#39;s ability to find, track and stop dangerous terrorists
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President Bush on Friday signed  legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of U.S.  intelligence agencies in a half century and creating a new  director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks.
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President Bush will give the CIA director new powers as he sets up a counter-terrorism centre, the White House says.
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Under election-year pressure,  President Bush said on Wednesday he supported giving "full  budgetary authority" to a new national intelligence director  after initially balking at the recommendation of the Sept. 11  commission.
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President Bush submitted a plan to  the U.S. Congress on Thursday that gives a new national  intelligence director authority over much of the intelligence  community, but not the full powers sought by the Sept. 11  commission and key lawmakers, documents show.
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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
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WASHINGTON -- Administration and congressional officials say George W. Bush&#39;s White House has drafted executive orders to implement two key recommendations of the 9/11 commission -- a more powerful intelligence director and a new national counterterrorism
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President Bush on Friday signed legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of US intelligence agencies in a half century and creating a new director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept.
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President Bush signed executive orders and directives yesterday bolstering the authority of the CIA director over the nation&#39;s intelligence programs and budgets, signaling a renewed effort by
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President Bush has ordered CIA Director Porter Goss to increase by 50 percent the number of qualified CIA clandestine operators and intelligence analysts.
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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 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.