Roberts defends proposal to break up CIA, restructure intelligence
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Lawmakers and intelligence officials on Monday criticized Sen. Pat Roberts&#39; radical plan to break up the CIA and restructure national intelligence, but
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A leading Republican senator on Sunday unveiled a plan to reform US intelligence operations, including giving increased budget and firing powers to a new director.
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Former CIA director George J. Tenet Wednesday criticized an intelligence restructuring bill's plan to create a director of national intelligence, saying it would separate the new intelligence chief from direct control over the case officers and analysts who are overseas and "taking risks."
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A key Republican's proposal to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a national intelligence director met immediate and broad resistance Monday. A top Senate Democrat called it a "severe mistake" and the agency's former director said it showed a "dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence."
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The acting director of the Central  Intelligence Agency said on Monday he would resist a lawmaker's  proposal to dismantle the agency, joining other opponents who  labeled the plan a mistake.
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WASHINGTON - Former CIA Director George Tenet on Monday attacked a Republican senator&#39;s proposal to reorganize the CIA, calling it &quot;a dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence.
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Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is seen in the CBS Green Room prior to being interviewed on CBS&#39;s &quot;Face the Nation&quot; in Washington Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004.
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Sweeping plans to reform America&#39;s intelligence network have run into trouble after key Republicans in Congress objected to the legislation.
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WASHINGTON - Two influential Senate Republicans are putting forward competing proposals to change the intelligence community's leadership structure, despite words of caution from top Pentagon officials.    As Congress works through the August recess to consider recommendations from the Sept...
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President Bush's nominee to head the CIA promised Tuesday to shed his political past and provide precise, objective and independent intelligence to the president and Congress. But after a 4 1/2-hour confirmation hearing, some Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee were not convinced.
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Regardless of the reason, Congress&#39; failure to pass a bill reorganizing the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies may not be a such a bad thing.
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A reassessment by the Central Intelligence Agency has cast doubt on a central piece of evidence used by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq to draw links
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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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Ever since the CIA was created in 1947 to spy on America&#39;s Cold War enemies, 38 government committees, commissions and conclaves have urged deep reforms of the long-troubled chief intelligence agency.
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Washington -- Congressional Democrats on Monday blasted the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman&#39;s proposal for breaking up the CIA and Defense Department spying operations, while the party&#39;s presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, praised it.
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The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee unveiled a radical proposal yesterday to remove most of the nation&#39;s major intelligence gathering operations from the
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The plan would give the proposed national director responsibility for intelligence-gathering of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.