Bush Enhances CIA Role as Interim Reform
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President Bush, embroiled in a fierce campaign battle over national security, on Friday expanded the power of the CIA director to include some of the broad authority that the Sept.
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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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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Saturday his newly enacted changes in the nation's intelligence community will "improve America's ability to find, track and stop dangerous terrorists," while Democratic critics said the election-season moves fall short of what is needed.    The president said the four executive orders he signed Friday, which give the CIA director additional power over the intelligence community until a new post of national intelligence director is created, establish a national counterterrorism center and promote intelligence-sharing across the government, "reflect specific recommendations" of an independent commission that investigated the Sept...
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President Bush instructed the nation's new spy chief to focus on finding more recruits with the language skills and cultural background to collect information on al-Quaida and other terrorist groups.
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President Bush signed executive orders and directives yesterday bolstering the authority of the CIA director over the nation&#39;s intelligence programs and budgets, signaling a renewed effort by
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A White House spokesman says President Bush will announce Friday significant reforms to the US intelligence apparatus. The spokesman says those reforms will include temporarily boosting the powers of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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President Bush said Saturday his newly enacted changes in the nation&#39;s intelligence community will &quot;improve America&#39;s ability to find, track and stop dangerous terrorists
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WASHINGTON - President Bush told members of Congress on Wednesday he supports giving a new national intelligence director strong budgetary authority over much of the nation's intelligence community, a key provision in the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations...
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The Senate sent the restructuring bill to the White House on Wednesday, where President Bush is expected to sign it into law next week, setting in motion the first major changes in the U.S. intelligence community since the CIA was established in 1947.
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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 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 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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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 on Friday signed into law the largest overhaul of US intelligence gathering in 50 years, hoping to improve the spy network that failed to prevent the Sept.
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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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Washington, August 28 (NNN): In view of the recommendations of the 9/11 probe panel, US President George Walker Bush has given the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director new powers, including some control over other intelligence agencies.
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President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.