Bush Executive Orders Could Reform CIA
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WASHINGTON -- Administration and congressional officials say George W. Bush&#39;s White House has drafted executive orders to implement two key recommendations of the 9/11 commission -- a more powerful intelligence director and a new national counterterrorism
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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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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the CIA to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and turn over to watchdog groups records concerning the treatment of prisoners in Iraq.
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The CIA chief may have eyes on being the new national intelligence director
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WASHINGTON - Congress has passed and President Bush will sign a historic piece of legislation that will revamp the nation&#39;s intelligence system.
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President Bush on Saturday stepped  up pressure on Congress to approve an overhaul of the nation's  intelligence operations, just two days before lawmakers return  to try again to pass the reforms.
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US President George W Bush says his Government is heeding the September 11 commission&#39;s call to reform US intelligence and will take measures to improve its ability &quot;to find, track and stop dangerous terrorists&quot;.
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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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U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of CIA detainees, on Friday ordered that agency interrogators comply with Geneva Conventions against torture.
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President Bush, the son of a former CIA director, has embraced a short-term fix for the CIA that -- surprise! -- gives the CIA director more power.
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President Bush signed executive orders and directives yesterday bolstering the authority of the CIA director over the nation's intelligence programs and budgets, signaling a renewed effort by the White House to shape the national security debate roiling Congress and the presidential campaign.
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President Bush today signed an executive order governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects by the CIA and barring torture, degrading treatment and serious acts of violence, the White House announced.
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CIA Director Porter Goss plans to  deliver to President Bush on Wednesday plans for strengthening  the intelligence service as recommended by the commission that  investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, The Washington Post  reported.
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The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President George W. Bush or of leaking damaging
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WASHINGTON - President Bush signed into law Friday the most sweeping changes in US intelligence operations in five decades, aiming to overhaul a system built for the Cold War and adapt it to a new generation of threats brought home by the attacks of Sept
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US President George W Bush has signed legislation setting up the biggest overhaul of US intelligence agencies in half a century and creating a new director of national intelligence
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Description: NPR&#39;s Melissa Block talks with Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counter-terrorism, about Sen. Pat Roberts&#39; sweeping proposal to reorganize government intelligence organizations.