Bush administration opposes Senate version of intelligence bill

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JESSE J. HOLLAND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


WASHINGTON -- The White House came out Tuesday against parts of a Senate intelligence reorganization bill, saying they would create "a cumbersome new bureaucracy" for coordinating the activities of 15 spy agencies under a national intelligence director.


Meanwhile, one of the leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, whose report was the impetus for the legislation, gave a lukewarm endorsement to a House version that would make the head of the CIA the new national intelligence director and increase fines and jail time for terrorism hoaxes.
The Senate and House are trying to finish legislation before the November election.

While endorsing a Senate bill written by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., the White House said it "is concerned about the excessive and unnecessary detail" in it.
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1. So the house version gives more power to the executive branch.

3 Bush quotes:

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.(Governing Magazine 7/98)
-- From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?"

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.
-- CNN.com, December 18, 2000

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " {Bush} said.
-- Business Week, July 30, 2001