Bush Intel Reform Orders Could Come Monday

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Also on Bush's to do list: Hire and training more humans to collect intelligence, Set standards for issuing birth certificates and other forms of identification, such as driver's licenses, to reduce fraud, Disclose now-secret parts of the U.S. budget to let the public know how much is being spent on intelligence, Shift the lead responsibility for directing and executing paramilitary operations, both clandestine and covert, to the Defense Department, Improve and set common standards for information-sharing throughout the intelligence community, Speed up national security appointments during administration changeovers, Set up a national security work force at the FBI comprising analysts, linguists and surveillance specialists to concentrate on national security, Regularly assess the adequacy of the new Northern Command's strategy to defend the United States against military threats, the only military command focusing solely on defending U.S. soil.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32970-2004Aug1?language=printer

Bush Intel Reform Orders Could Come Monday


By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
Sunday, August 1, 2004; 9:43 PM


WASHINGTON - President Bush will issue orders as early as Monday to implement some reforms suggested by the Sept. 11 commission, but White House officials still are wrangling over the best way to create a new national intelligence czar.

Presidential advisers crafting the reforms Bush is to announce are not opposed to the panel's idea for a national director of intelligence, but were still deciding whether the post should be placed inside the White House, a senior administration official said Sunday on condition of anonymity.

The president will embrace the recommendations, "but that doesn't mean everything is going to be exactly the same" as the panel has suggested, the official said.

Some former intelligence officials worry about establishing another layer of bureaucracy atop the intelligence community. Some members of Congress are warning against knee-jerk acceptance of some of the panel's more overarching recommendations without lengthy evaluation.<snip>