Bush to Appoint Intelligence Czar
President Bush announced today he will follow the recommendations of the 9/11 report--with some modifications-- and appoint an Intelligence czar.
The bipartisan panel's most overarching recommendations in a 567-page report were for creation of a counterterrorism center, which the commission envisions as a joint operational planning and intelligence center staffed by personnel from all the spy agencies, and a national intelligence czar.
What are the modifications? Here's one:
However, officials say Bush differs from the commission on one point. He thinks the director and a new counter-terrorism center should be outside the White House hierarchy. One official said placing them inside the Executive Office of the President could undermine the intelligence community's traditional autonomy.`
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