Bush urges diversity in spy recruitment
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President Bush instructed the nation's new spy chief to focus on finding more recruits with the language skills and cultural background to collect information on al-Quaida and other terrorist groups.
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All presidential candidates still in the race should have Secret Service protection because their diversity and the media attention they attract present terrorists "a potent, high-profile target to make a statement," a House chairman wrote Wednesday to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.
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WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush on Friday signed into law the largest overhaul of US intelligence-gathering in 50 years, hoping to improve the spy network that failed to prevent the Sept.
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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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CRAWFORD, Texas  - With fellow Republicans  blocking a sweeping overhaul of U.S. spy agencies, President  Bush issued orders for the CIA and the FBI to strengthen their  intelligence operations as recommended by the commission that  investigated the Sept. 11 attacks.
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President Bush called upon Congress Saturday to pass this week a wide-ranging intelligence-reform bill he believes will help &quot;to do everything necessary to confront and defeat the terrorist threat.
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President Bush said on Thursday he  earned "political capital" from the 59 million people who voted  for him and will use it to advance a broad agenda that includes  protecting America and reforming the intelligence community,  the tax code and Social Security.
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President Bush pressed Congress on   Thursday to approve new military tribunals to try terrorism   suspects, a day after he admitted the CIA ran secret prisons   overseas where accused militants were detained.
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President Bush has ordered up new measures to bolster the CIA in combating weapons of mass destruction and other threats, directing an agency that lawmakers have accused of engaging in "group think" to present "diverse views" to policy-makers.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to lead the CIA pledged Tuesday to shelve his partisan Republican rhetoric and to encourage the agency&#39;s overseas operatives to take more risks in spying and counterterrorism operations.
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President Bush will be facing a tough crowd as he steps behind closed doors to ask House Republicans divided by the politics of war to support his drive for more power to spy on, imprison and interrogate terrorism suspects.
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President George W. Bush and GOP congressional leaders are preparing another bid in December to overcome conservative Republican opposition and pass an intelligence community overhaul designed as a response to the Sept.
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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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The Bush administration is working to persuade Congress to pass legislation protecting companies who aid the N.S.A.âs warrantless eavesdropping program.
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Touting measures to improve national security, President Bush said Saturday that government efforts to make America safe against terrorism have worked, but more actions are needed to reform the US intelligence service and track
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President George W. Bush went to the   U.S. Capitol on Thursday to prod fellow Republicans to back his   plans to track and try terrorism suspects, but some pressed on   with a competing measure the White House rejects.
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President Bush on Monday sent to the Senate his nominations for an assistant secretary of the Navy and two U.S. representatives to the upcoming session of the United Nations.