Bush backs full budget authority of proposed intelligence director
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The White House unveiled a detailed plan on Wednesday to give a new national intelligence director (NID), as recommended by the commission investigating theSept.
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President Bush told members of Congress on today that he supports a key provision in the 9/11 report.
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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.
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Legislation that would put the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies under a single director&#39;s control appeared headed for passage this week, after President George W. Bush won crucial
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US President George W Bush has signed legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of US intelligence agencies in half a century and creating a new director of national intelligence
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The Republican-led Senate approved President Bush's choice to head the CIA, Rep. Porter Goss, over protests from some Democrats who said he has too many Republican ties for a job that requires independence.
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President Bush yesterday embraced the creation of a strong national intelligence director with &#39;&#39;full budgetary authority&quot; over America&#39;s spy
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US President George W. Bush on Friday signed into law the biggest US intelligence overhaul in more than 50 years, including the creation of a new national intelligence chief to oversee the country&#39;s spy network.
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Two powerful congressional chairmen, one who had opposed legislation to revamp the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies, endorsed a compromise Monday and moved a bill endorsed by President Bush closer to approval.
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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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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 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 issued a new order on Friday enhancing the powers of the director of central intelligence, but the White House said that new legislation was still needed
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President Bush made an impassioned defense of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.
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The US Senate approved the nomination of US Representative Porter J. Goss to head the Central Intelligence Agency Wednesday. By a vote of 77-17 , the Senate gave President Bush&#39;s nominee swift approval after
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President Bush, embroiled in a  fierce campaign battle over national security, on Friday  expanded the power of the CIA director to include some of the  broad authority that the Sept. 11 commission envisioned for a  new intelligence czar.
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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.