White House Proposes Intelligence Changes
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WASHINGTON - The White House has drafted executive orders aimed at implementing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations for a more powerful intelligence director and a new national counterterrorism center...
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WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made it clear Tuesday that the Bush administration was still debating how to carry out critical details of intelligence reforms that President Bush already has announced.
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The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.
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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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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Sunday unveiled a sweeping new intelligence reform proposal that would transfer sections of the CIA and intelligence agencies controlled by the Defense Department to the direct control of a new
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The White House unveiled a detailed plan on Wednesday to give a new national intelligence director (NID), as recommended by the commission investigating theSept.
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The White House is considering giving the new Director of National Intelligence the task of preparing the daily intelligence material presented to President Bush each morning, a task now handled by the CIA.
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President Bush on Friday will sign a  series of executive orders giving the CIA director some of the  authority envisioned by the Sept. 11 commission for a new  national intelligence post, the White House said.
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President Bush stepped up pressure on Congress on Saturday to approve an overhaul of the nation&#39;s intelligence operations, just two days before lawmakers return to try again to approve the reforms.
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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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U.S. News & World Report - It remains to be seen whether intelligence reform legislation will produce substantive improvements in our national security. Republicans and Democrats alike certainly hope so, as do we all. But Congress and the White House failed to approve other reforms passed by the House of Representatives that would have ensured heightened border security and the ability to control immigrant documentation and identification, which the 9/11 commission recommended.
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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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Chicago Tribune - The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee proposed sweeping changes Sunday that would dismantle the CIA and remove several of the United States' largest intelligence agencies from the control of the Pentagon.
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The plan would give the proposed national director responsibility for intelligence-gathering of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon.
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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.
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The White House on Tuesday asked Congress to reject an attempt by Republican leaders in the House to place in an intelligence reorganization bill some anti-illegal immigration measures that Democrats say they won't support.
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The White House has requested that the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon study whether the Defense Department should take over CIA paramilitary operations, as recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.