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Intelligence Chief Without Power? Support Leaves Questions

Date: August 3, 2004
Author: Elisabeth Bumiller
QUOTE: Democrats said that in keeping the authority of the new intelligence chief vague, Mr. Bush was seeking to avoid a major blowup with Congress and the Pentagon before the election...

ABSTRACT: President Bush has accepted the 9-11 Commission's suggestion to create a position of national intelligence director but has not specified the position's budgetary authority. President Bush and his supporters claim the post is a fast-track move to aid the fight against terrorism. Democratic critics note that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Administration have strongly opposed such a position; they contend that creating the position without either budget authority or an implementation timetable is empty campaign posturing.

--- A. Willing

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