Deal by congressmen to overhaul intelligence system disintegrates
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Congress failed yesterday in its attempt to get legislation implementing the Sept. 11 commission&#39;s terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush, but Republican leaders said they would try to press the effort later this year.
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The Republican chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has proposed sweeping reforms that would dismantle the CIA and remove several of the United States&#39; largest intelligence agencies from the Pentagon&#39;s control.
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REPUBLICANS have scuttled a bipartisan effort to reform the US intelligence community in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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Congress is giving itself a month to come up with legislation restructuring the nation's intelligence apparatus, but Republican leaders acknowledge the goal may fall victim to turf disputes and lawmakers' focus on getting themselves re-elected Nov. 2.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to restructure the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies, sending the landmark legislation to the president&#39;s desk where it is slated to become law.
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a sweeping overhaul of U.S. intelligence agencies, ending weeks of wrangling over the Pentagon's power under the reforms demanded after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The fate of a bill to reorganize the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies is likely to be decided Monday when the House of Representatives meets, key lawmakers and staffers said.
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Congressional negotiators ended a thorny disagreement with a key Republican lawmaker over intelligence reform Monday, possibly clearing the way for passage of legislation
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The most significant reform of intelligence-gathering in more than a half-century moved to the brink of approval Monday after congressional negotiators
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If President Bush gets a second-term honeymoon, it may not last long. Or it may already be over. A failure in the coming days to win congressional passage of the intelligence reorganization bill he supports &#151; fretting House Republicans are standing in the way &#151; would not bode well for political bliss when the new Congress convenes next month.
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Congress's new session has been complicated by the call to reorganize the nation's intelligence agencies and Congress itself.
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Top Democrats and Republicans expressed anger and frustration Sunday over the failure of the House to pass a broad intelligence reorganization bill, pointing fingers at some conservative lawmakers and the Department of Defense.
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The House of Representatives easily passed a sweeping restructuring of the US intelligence community yesterday, removing the final obstacle to the most substantial overhaul of the nation&#39;s spy apparatus in 50 years.
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Top US lawmakers on Sunday blamed &quot;turf wars&quot; for the unravelling of a long-awaited intelligence reform bill, and said a post-September 11 overhaul of America&#39;s spy network was stymied by allies of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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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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An intelligence reorganization bill appeared no closer to passage Sunday than it did on November 20, when objections from Republican committee chairmen pulled it from the floor.
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The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday proposed a sweeping overhaul of US intelligence agencies that would break up the CIA