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9/11 Panel Is Said to Urge New Post for Intelligence

By PHILIP SHENON
Published: July 17, 2004

WASHINGTON, July 16 - The final report of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will recommend the creation of a cabinet-level post to oversee the nation's intelligence agencies, a position that would take power away from the C.I.A., the F.B.I., the National Security Council, the Pentagon and other agencies that face blistering criticism from the panel, government officials who have seen the report said.

They said that the creation of the post of a national intelligence director would be the most important of the recommendations in the long-awaited report, which is due out next week.

The proposal is likely to face especially fierce opposition from the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, which would both have to cede significant authority over the government's estimated $40 billion annual intelligence budget and other policy matters. The White House, however, has suggested in recent weeks that it is willing to consider an overhaul of the intelligence community.

Under the commission's proposal, one official said, the director of central intelligence, who is now responsible for running the C.I.A. and for nominal oversight of other intelligence agencies, would be expected to lose much of that oversight role and would report to the White House through the new national intelligence director.

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1. kick

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2. Spooky

Do we really want a new super spook?

"...would report to the White House through the new national intelligence director."

Yet another new layer of BS to get through to reach the person who makes the decisions? And this is supposed to be a "fix"?