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• Remarks by the President in Signing the Military Commissions Act of 2006

  - 2006-10-17

  To: National DeskContact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2580WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following are remarks by the president on signing the Military Commissions Act of 2006:The East Room9:35 a.m. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Welcome to the White House on an historic day. It is a rare occasion when a president can...

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• McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 478 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1390-0 Publication Date: October 2005 Gerald D. McKnight has done an admirable job recounting the many contradictions and...

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• Bush's daily intel briefing revamped

  - 2005-08-25

  WASHINGTON -- The classified intelligence briefings President Bush gets daily have been revamped to include divergent opinions from more sources, incorporate the latest terrorism threats and reduce the role of the CIA. After the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the Iraq war, the briefs were criticized for...

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• Look Who's Not Talking--Still

  - 2005-04-04

  The Terrorist Threat Integration Center had an imposing name, and a tough mission to match it. Headquartered in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., the agency was created two years ago by President Bush as a critical line of defense against terrorist enemies. After so much criticism about the failures...

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• Unifying, fixing spy agencies: A real mission impossible?

  - 2005-04-02

  By Katherine Shrader WASHINGTON — John Negroponte's mission just might be impossible. The incoming national intelligence director's powers are vague, the agencies he oversees are unruly and the spy world knows he wasn't President Bush's first choice. Negroponte — who seems likely to be...

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• Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on U.S. Intelligence

  - 2004-08-17

  Transcript of Testimony by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, 325 Russell senate Office Building, Washington, DC, Tuesday, August 17, 2004. SEN. WARNER: (Sounds gavel.) The committee meets today to receive testimony from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Acting Director of Central Intelligence John E. McLaughlin, and Chairman of...

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• Bush backs spy czar, center

  - 2004-08-03

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush, faced with the ongoing terrorist threat and election year pressures, on Monday endorsed the Sept. 11 commission's call for a national intelligence director and a national counterterrorism center. Bush, however, rejected the commission's call to put the new intelligence director on the White House...

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• Bush pushes for intelligence czar

  - 2004-08-03

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush called on Congress on Monday to create a national intelligence director and announ- ced that he would build a national counterterrorism center as part of a refocused election-year effort to fend off future attacks. Bush's statement embraced the two most significant...

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• Bush embraces proposal for intelligence director.

  - 2004-08-03

  By Stephen J. Hedges, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 3--WASHINGTON -- President Bush announced Monday that he would ask Congress to establish a national intelligence director and new counterterrorism center but said the new intelligence chief should have less...

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• New York City slow to fix Sept. 11 flaws, panel report will say.

  - 2004-07-19

  By James Gordon Meek, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 19--WASHINGTON -- New York still has not fixed some of the crucial problems faced by city cops and firefighters on 9/11, the commission probing the 2001 terrorist attacks will...

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