Bush gives CIA chief more power
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President Bush yesterday expanded the powers of the CIA director and established a National Counterterrorism Center, responding to recommendations
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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 on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
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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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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 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 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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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 on Friday signed  legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of U.S.  intelligence agencies in a half century and creating a new  director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks.
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President Bush said Wednesday he wants Congress to expand and make permanent a law that temporarily gives the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on suspected foreign terrorists.
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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, taking on a more personal role in the Mideast conflict, is offering new financial support to embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government.
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The CIA directorwants to increase by 50 percent the number of clandestine operations officers and analysts to expand U.S. intelligence on terrorist networks and to counter the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.
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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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President Bushâs remarks came the morning after the Senate handed the White House a major victory by voting to broaden the governmentâs spy powers.
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President Bush on Friday signed  legislation authorizing the biggest overhaul of U.S.  intelligence agencies in more than 50 years and creating a new  director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks.
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George W Bush moved yesterday to seize the political advantage after Osama bin Laden&#39;s extraordinary intervention in the US presidential election on Friday night.