Bush Gives CIA Director More Power
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President Bush signed executive orders and directives yesterday bolstering the authority of the CIA director over the nation's intelligence programs and budgets, signaling a renewed effort by the White House to shape the national security debate roiling Congress and the presidential campaign.
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Under election-year pressure,  President Bush agreed on Wednesday to give a new national  intelligence director what he called full budgetary authority  over much of the intelligence community despite initial  objections.
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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 approved by Congress.
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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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President Bush today signed the bill that will revamp the country&#39;s intelligence community more dramatically than any measure in more than a half-century.
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The CIA chief may have eyes on being the new national intelligence director
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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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President Bush has observed the swearing in of Porter Goss as the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency. In a White House ceremony Friday, the former CIA officer took over leadership of the intelligence
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WASHINGTON -- US President George W. Bush signed executive orders yesterday designed to strengthen the CIA director&#39;s power over US intelligence agencies and create a national counter-terrorism centre, responding to election-year pressure to enact changes
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WASHINGTON - 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...
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Washington, August 28 (NNN): In view of the recommendations of the 9/11 probe panel, US President George Walker Bush has given the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director new powers, including some control over other intelligence agencies.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush&#39;s nominee to be CIA director promised today to provide Congress and the president with independent, objective intelligence but said it may take longer than previously estimated to have all the needed undercover operatives in
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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Friday signed executive orders designed to strengthen the CIA director's power over the nation's intelligence agencies and create a national counterterrorism center, responding to election-year pressures to enact changes called for by the Sept. 11 commission...
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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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President Bush on Friday will sign a  series of executive orders giving the CIA director some of the  authority envisioned by the Sept. 11 commission for a new  national intelligence post, the White House said.
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WASHINGTON - Amid a heated election-year debate on intelligence reform, President Bush signed 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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A White House spokesman says President Bush will announce Friday significant reforms to the US intelligence apparatus. The spokesman says those reforms will include temporarily boosting the powers of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.