Bush gives CIA director increased power
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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 - 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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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 urged Congress today to give him "additional authority" to carry out a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program directed against international terrorists and to approve "broader reforms" in the 1978 law that regulates domestic surveillance of foreign agents' communications.
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President George W. Bush will give more power to the head of the Central Intelligence Agency as an interim step until a new national intelligence director is confirmed by Congress, spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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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 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 said today that he had used his power of clemency to commute the 30-month sentence for I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was convicted of perjury in the C.I.A. leak case.
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US President George Bush has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to hire and train thousands of new spies, the Washington Post said Wednesday.
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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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President Bush is signing into law the largest overhaul of U.S. intelligence gathering in 50 years, hoping to improve the spy network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.
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President Bush stepped up pressure  on Congress on Wednesday to cut a deal to reform U.S. spy  agencies, and sources close to the negotiations said a new  national intelligence director appeared unlikely to get the  full powers sought by the Sept. 11 commission.
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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 - 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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WASHINGTON - US President George Bush signed executive orders Friday giving the director of the Central Intelligence Agency greater powers to oversee all aspects of US intelligence activities, the White House announced.
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President Bush said Wednesday that a law hastily passed in August to temporarily give the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign terror suspects must be made permanent and expanded.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has issued new rules to ensure that the CIA detention and interrogation program is in full compliance with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture, the U.S. spy agency said on Friday.