Bush Backs Full Budget Powers for Intel Chief
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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.
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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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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 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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WASHINGTON, Aug 27  - US President George W. Bush will issue executive orders Friday to establish a national counter-terrorism center and temporarily expand the CIA director&#39;s powers to oversee intelligence, his spokesman said.
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President Bush says he will consider all kinds of ideas to reform the nation&#39;s intelligence community, including the sweeping plan put forward by a key senator.
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President Bush presented Congress on Thursday with legislation to create a strong national intelligence director with authority to control the nonmilitary portions of the nation's intelligence budget.
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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 signed the largest overhaul of US intelligence-gathering in a half century, aiming to transform a system designed for Cold War threats so it can deal effectively with the post-Sept.
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President Bush, locked in an  election year battle over national security, on Friday will  give the post of CIA director some of the broad authority that  the Sept. 11 commission envisioned for a new intelligence czar.
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In response to recommendations by the 9/11 panel, President Bush signed executive orders Friday that sources say strengthen the hand of the CIA director and create a national counterrorism center.
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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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The U.S. Congress approved the  biggest overhaul of U.S. intelligence agencies in over 50 years  on Wednesday, sending the bill that creates a new director of  national intelligence demanded after Sept. 11 to President  Bush.
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WHITE HOUSE President Bush is cheering Congress for passing what he calls a &quot;historic&quot; intelligence overhaul. The president says intelligence is America&#39;s &quot;first line of defense&quot; against terrorists, and the overhaul bill includes important reforms.
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President Bush yesterday said he would work with Congress to pass a bill overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence services for the struggle against
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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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In the nation's first-ever $3 trillion budget, President Bush seeks to seal his legacy of promoting a strong defense to fight terrorism and tax cuts to spur the economy