Babington, Charles. "Intelligence Bill Passed By Senate; House to Consider Differing Measure." Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2004, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]Materials arranged chronologically.
Babington, Charles. "Intelligence Bill Passed By Senate; House to Consider Differing Measure." Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2004, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The U.S. Senate voted on 6 October 2004 "to revamp the structure of the nation's intelligence community by creating a national intelligence director, a counterterrorism center and other agencies.... The bill ... would give the new director authority to coordinate the activities and spending of the CIA and several other intelligence agencies throughout the government. It would also declassify the amount of money the government spends on intelligence and would create a civil liberties board to safeguard privacy and civil rights as the government steps up anti-terrorism activities.... One of the commission's major recommendations -- that Congress revamp the way it oversees intelligence operations -- is essentially ignored in the House and Senate bills."
Shenon, Philip. "Senate Approves 9/11 Bill at Odds With House Version." New York Times, 7 Oct. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
The Senate voted on 6 October 2004 "to approve a sweeping bipartisan bill to reorganize the way the nation gathers and shares intelligence,... including the creation of the job of national intelligence director and the establishment of a national counterterrorism center."
Babington, Charles, and Helen Dewar. "New Intelligence Chief Backed; But Reform Package Hinges on Congressional Negotiations." Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2004, A13. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on 8 October 2004 to create the position of intelligence director and to adopt "contentious provisions that would make it easier to detain and deport illegal immigrants.... [T]he House and Senate versions of the intelligence reform legislation differ in many significant ways." The Senate bill omits many of the immigration and law enforcement provisions.
DeBose, Brian. "House Passes Overhaul of Intelligence." Washington Times, 9 Oct. 2004. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
"The House passed legislation to overhaul the nation's intelligence agencies [on 8 October 2004]. It includes several immigration reforms deemed controversial by House and Senate Democrats, and that could complicate negotiations between the two chambers.... The bill creates a national intelligence director with budget authority over nonmilitary intelligence agencies, a national counterterrorism center and a joint intelligence community council."
Gorman, Siobhan, and Sydney J. Freedberg. "Carter and Turner on Intelligence Reform." National Journal, 9 Oct. 2004, 3080-3082.
Shenon, Philip, and Rachel L. Swarns. "House Approves Intelligence Bill." New York Times, 9 Oct. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"The House adopted a Republican-sponsored bill on [8 October 2004] that would restructure the nation's intelligence community in response to the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. But the measure is so different from a bipartisan Senate bill that many lawmakers say it may be impossible to reconcile them.... The bill ... would establish the job of national intelligence director.... But the intelligence director would have significantly less authority over budgets and personnel than the commission recommended or than the Senate bill sets forth."
Lipton, Eric. "Spy Chiefs Say Cooperation Should Begin at the Bottom." New York Times, 14 Oct. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 13 October 2004, former DCI George J. Tenet, DIRNSA Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, and NGA Director Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. told a symposium sponsored by the United States Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation "that the way to defend the United States against terrorist attacks was not to reshuffle the top management but to improve cooperation among rank-and-file analysts, spies, investigators and military officers."
Pappalardo, Joe. "Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations." National Defense 89 (17 Oct. 2004): 16-17.
Pincus, Walter. "CIA Chief's Power a Hurdle in Intelligence Reform: Control Over Agency, Budget Authority Among Issues Still Unresolved by Congress, White House." Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2004, A13. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"Congressional leaders and the White House have yet to reach agreement on two major elements of intelligence reform legislation -- the powers of the new national intelligence director, and the specific roles of the new national counterterrorism center.... Meanwhile,... Porter J. Goss, as a result of executive orders signed by the president in August, already has much of the power and authority in his role as director of central intelligence (DCI) that the new legislation would give to the proposed national intelligence director, or NID."
Congressional Research Service. H.R. 10 (9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act) and S. 2945 (National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004): A Comparative Analysis. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Updated, 21 Oct. 2004.
This report lays out the substantial differences between the two bills that have been passed in the respective chambers. Available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32635.pdf.
Shenon, Philip. "Delays on 9/11 Bill Are Laid to Pentagon." New York Times, 26 Oct. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to Congressional officials and commission members on 25 October 2004, "[a] months-long, behind-the-scenes lobbying effort by the Pentagon to water down the powers of a new national intelligence director is largely responsible for a stalemate threatening to derail Congressional efforts to enact the major recommendations of the independent Sept. 11 commission."
Pincus, Walter. "Turf War Stalls Intelligence Bill: Pentagon Allies at Odds With Advocates of New Director." Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2004, A4. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Lawmakers and staff aides say that "Congressional efforts to restructure the U.S. intelligence system before the election have stalled because of a bitter turf war over control of intelligence spending that pits the Pentagon and its allies on Capitol Hill against advocates of a new national intelligence director."
Babington, Charles, and Walter Pincus. "Intelligence Overhaul Bill Blocked: House Conservatives Deal Blow to President, Speaker in Rejecting Compromise." Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2004, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Legislation to reshape the U.S. intelligence community "collapsed in the House" on 20 November 2004, "as conservative Republicans refused to embrace a compromise ... they said ... could reduce military control over battlefield intelligence and failed to crack down on illegal immigrants."
Shenon, Philip, and Carl Hulse. "House Leadership Blocks Vote on Intelligence Bill." New York Times, 21 Nov. 2004. [http://www.nytimes.com]
On 20 November 2004, "House Republican leaders blocked and appeared to kill a bill ... that would have enacted the major recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.... The decision to block a vote on the ... bill, which would have created the job of a cabinet-level national intelligence director to oversee the C.I.A. and the government's other spy agencies, came after what lawmakers from both parties described as a near-rebellion by a core of highly conservative House Republicans aligned with the Pentagon."
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