Jehl, Douglas. "Administration Considers a Post for National Intelligence Director." New York Times, 16 Apr. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Jehl, Douglas. "Administration Considers a Post for National Intelligence Director." New York Times, 16 Apr. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 15 April 2004, administration officials said that "[t]he White House is weighing whether to pre-empt the Sept. 11 commission's final report this summer by embracing a proposal to create a powerful new post of director of national intelligence. Under the proposal, management of the government's 15 intelligence agencies, and control of their budgets, would be put under the direction of a single person....
"Also being discussed within the White House, the officials said, were possible changes within the F.B.I., including the creation of a new directorate within the bureau responsible for domestic intelligence-gathering and analysis. The alternative of creating a new domestic intelligence agency was also being discussed but was seen as less likely to be embraced, the officials said."
[Reform/04]
Jehl, Douglas. "Aide Declines a Top C.I.A. Post After Questions." New York Times, 5 Oct. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
[CIA/DCIs/Goss]
Jehl, Douglas. "An Abundance of Caution and Years of Budget Cuts Are Seen to Limit C.I.A." New York Times, 11 May 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to government officials, "America's clandestine intelligence service has fewer than 1,100 case officers posted overseas, fewer than the number of F.B.I. agents assigned to the New York City field office alone." Since George J. Tenet took charge of the CIA seven years ago, "rebuilding that service has been his top priority." But according to Tenet and others, "it will be an additional five years ... before the rebuilding is complete and the United States has the network it needs to adequately confront a global threat posed by terrorist groups and hostile foreign governments." In an interview on 30 April 2004, CIA Deputy Director for Operations James L. Pavitt "said he still needed 30 to 35 percent more people."
[CIA/00s/04/Gen]
Jehl, Douglas. "Bleak Prognosis by C.I.A. Nominee." New York Times, 15 Sep. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Testifying before the SSCI on 14 September 2004, DCI-Nominee Porter J. Goss said that rebuilding the CIA "would take more than five years and that American spies needed to be encouraged to take more risks." Goss "offered what he called a candid view of the intelligence agencies. He said that if confirmed as director, he would practice 'tough love' in leading agencies that he portrayed as standing at 3 on a scale of 10 in terms of capabilities."
[CIA/DCIs/Goss/Nomination]
Jehl, Douglas. "Bush Selects Admiral for No. 2 Post at C.I.A." New York Times, 1 Jul. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
The Pentagon announced on 30 June 2005 that President Bush has nominated Vice Admiral Albert M. Calland III to become CIA deputy director, the number two position at the agency. As associate director for military support, Calland has been the top military liaison at the agency and has been serving as acting deputy director for several months. Calland served from 2002 to 2004 as commander of the Navy Special Warfare Command, the senior officer in charge of Navy Seals.
[CIA/00s/05/Gen]
Jehl, Douglas. "Bush Sets Panel on Intelligence Before Iraq War." New York Times, 7 Feb. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
[GenPostCW/04/WMD]
Jehl, Douglas. "Bush to Create New Unit in F.B.I. for Intelligence." New York Times, 30 Jun. 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 29 June 2005, President Bush ordered the creation of "a new, semi-autonomous" national security division within the FBI. The unit will "fall under the overall direction" of DNI John D. Negroponte and report both to Negroponte and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller.
[FBI/00s/05; Reform/00s/05/DNI]
Jehl, Douglas.
"Campaign Is Begun To Protect Money for Intelligence." New
York Times, 14 Mar. 1993, A1, A28.
[GenPostwar/Budgets]
Jehl, Douglas. "Clinton Revamps Policy on Secrecy of U.S. Documents." New
York Times, 18 Apr. 1995, A1, A9 (N).
On 17 April 1995, President Clinton signed Executive Order 12958 "overhauling Government secrecy rules and requiring, with certain exceptions, that even the most highly classified documents be made public after 25 years."
[RefMats/Release]
Jehl, Douglas. "Critics Fault Bush's C.I.A. Nominee as Championing Budgets Over Watchdog Role." New York Times, 13 Sep. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
As HPSCI chairman, Porter J. Goss (R-FL) "watched over American intelligence agencies.... But ... Goss cast himself more as a rebuilder than as a watchdog." Now, he "is facing questions about those years of oversight." According to current and former Congressional officials, "Goss was a consistent champion of bigger budgets but much less persistent when it came to scrutinizing mistakes."
[CIA/DCIs/Goss/Nomination]
Jehl, Douglas. "Debate on Secret Program Bursts Into Open." New York Times, 10 Dec. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"An intense secret debate about a previously unknown, enormously expensive technical intelligence program has burst into light in the form of scathing criticism from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. For two years,... Republicans and Democrats on the panel have voted to block the secret program, which is believed to be a system of new spy satellites. But it continues to be financed ... with support from the House, the Bush administration and Congressional appropriations committees."
[Recon/Sats/04]
Jehl, Douglas. "Despite a Pledge to Speed Work, Fixing an Internal Problem Takes Time at the C.I.A." New York Times, 10 Jun. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"The Central Intelligence Agency has yet to put in place a plan to address what senior officials have described as a major flaw in its operations, despite a pledge four months ago that the problem would be resolved within 30 days. The problem, which contributed to errors in the agency's prewar estimates on Iraq, is rooted in practices that severely limit how much information about human sources is shared with analysts who produce intelligence assessments, according to senior intelligence officials."
[CIA/00s/04/Gen; CIA/C&C/DI&DO]]
Jehl, Douglas. "Ex-C.I.A. Man Wins Verdict Reversal." New York Times, 30 Oct. 2003. [http://www.nytimes.com]
Judge Lynn N. Hughes of the Federal District Court in Houston "has thrown out the 1983 conviction there of Edwin P. Wilson ... for selling tons of explosives to Libya, ruling that prosecutors knowingly used false testimony to undermine his defense."
[GenPostwar/80s/Wilson]
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