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• Fact Sheet: A Lasting Framework for United States Intelligence Activities

  - 2008-07-31

  President Bush Updates Executive Order to Create a More Unified, Integrated, and Collaborative Intelligence Community WASHINGTON -- President Bush issued an Executive Order to advance and institutionalize the reforms enacted into law by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and to provide a durable framework for...

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• Bush to unveil US intelligence overhaul

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush will Thursday unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services that strips the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies, a White House spokeswoman said. The executive order, signed by Bush on Wednesday, "clarifies and strengthens the authorities...

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• Bush orders overhaul of US intelligence

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush has given his national intelligence director greater powers to manage rival US spy agencies as part of an overhaul driven by past intelligence failures, White House documents released Thursday show. The authorities were spelled out in revised executive order 13355, which...

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• War and indecision

  - 2008-06-16

  War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, by Douglas J. Feith (Harper, 688 pp., $27.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THIS book, an analytical description of a dysfunctional National Security Council and disloyal senior officials, will be studied for years by journalists, historians, and...

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• Uruguay seeks secret US archives on 'dirty war'

  - 2008-04-07

  MONTEVIDEO AFP — President Tabare Vazquez has asked US President George W. Bush to declassify US documents on Uruguay's "dirty war" (1973-1985) for possible clues to a 1978 murder and other crimes, his office said Monday. "My government hopes it can count on the cooperation of the US government...

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• Bush Veto of Bill Banning Torture and McCain's Tortured Logic and Flip-Flop Damage U.S. Leadership, Say Robert Weiner and John Larmett in Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-ed; 'Should be Central Presidential Campaign Issue'

  - 2008-03-14

  To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Bob Weiner or John Larmett, +1-301-283-0821 or +1-202- 329-1700 WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former public affairs director in the Clinton White House, Robert Weiner, and John Larmett, a former House and Senate Foreign Affairs Legislative Assistant, contend that President Bushs veto this week...

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• Statement by the Press Secretary

  - 2008-03-11

  WASHINGTON -- Today the House of Representatives failed to override the President's veto of the Intelligence Authorization Bill. The President believes that he has no higher responsibility than protecting the American people. The President also believes in making sure the Intelligence Community has the tools necessary to protect America from...

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• Bush vetos waterboarding ban

  - 2008-03-09

  WASHINGTON -- Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists. Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics...

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• Bush draws fire after veto of torture ban

  - 2008-03-09

  WASHINGTON -- Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President Bush's veto Saturday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists. Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics likened...

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• Radio Address by President Bush to the Nation

  - 2008-03-08

  To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: White House Press Office, +1-202-456-2580 WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of the radio address by President Bush to the nation: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week, I addressed the Department of Homeland Security on its fifth anniversary and thanked the...

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