GOP Plan Calls for Revamping Intelligence
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Pentagon, CIA Would Give Up Many Duties
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 23, 2004; Page A01
The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee unveiled
a radical proposal yesterday to remove most of the nation's major
intelligence-gathering operations from the CIA and Pentagon and place
them directly under the control of a new national intelligence
director.
The plan, announced by Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.) and endorsed by eight
other committee Republicans, is more extensive than the reorganization
proposed last month by the Sept. 11, 2001, commission and would result
in the virtual dismantling of the CIA. It also would severely curb the
power and influence of the Defense Department, which controls the bulk
of the federal classified intelligence budget.
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