Watch video-we still do not know what powers the Nat'l Director would have

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What "oversee" authority does Bush see the Nat'l Director having?

Watch the video of W's press release at link below at the upper right of the page is a pic of W, and a link to the video. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5575678 /

The CIA director not only heads his own agency but also oversees the U.S. intelligence community, which has grown to 15 agencies, but the director has neither budgetary authority nor day-to-day operational control of the other agencies, most of which are in the Defense Department. A national intelligence director would oversee all the agencies.

COULD SOMEONE SAY WHAT "oversee" MEANS THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT MEANS IN THE "CIA director oversees the U.S. intelligence community"


Why locating intel director outside of Executive Office of the President per MSNBC video of Bush announcement:

....McClellan cites undue political pressure

....President Bush says, "I think it ought to be a stand-alone group to better coordinate, particularly between foreign intelligence and domestic intelligence matters."

....White House chief-of-staff Andrew Card says the director is going to have a large staff and there wouldn't be room for them in the White House.

....accepting in totality the commission's proposals would have led to an unwieldy intelligence "czar" in the Cabinet.

KERRY SAYS CALL CONGRESS BACK NOW; BUSH SAYS SEPT. IS SOON ENOUGH -never mind that Bush resisted creation of the Sept. 11 in the first place, as well as establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. His fast call to action this time was widely seen as politically adept — and threw up obstacles to Kerry's nomination victory lap - as seen by our media.

But our media does not ask Bush for details!