Bush vows to endow intelligence director with real power

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: December 21, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Philip Shenon
International Herald Tribune
12-21-2004
In signing the bill last week to restructure the intelligence community and create the job of national intelligence director, President George W. Bush vowed that the government's new super-spy would have real power. ''The director will lead a unified intelligence community,'' Bush said, promising that the official would serve as his ''principal adviser'' on intelligence.But while the president's signature was the final act in a tumultuous legislative debate, it signaled the start of a new and perhaps equally turbulent period in which the ...

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