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White House cuts into CIA July 31, 2008 08:22pm Article from: Agence France-Presse Font size: + <http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24108680-23109,00.html#> - <http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24108680-23109,00.html#> Send this article: Print <http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24108680-23109,00.html#> Email <http://www.news.com.au/email/popup/0,23605,24108680-23109,00.html> THE White House is set to unveil an overhaul of the US intelligence services, stripping the CIA of some power to work with foreign intelligence agencies. The reform "clearly puts the (director of national intelligence or DNI) in charge,'' congresswoman Jane Harman told The Washington Post, of the three-year-old office created to coordinate US intelligence. The order "makes it harder for the intelligence community agencies to resist'' directives from the DNI, added Harman, who was briefed about the changes yesterday. According to The Washington Post, which obtained a White House presentation on the reforms, the new system gives the director authority to issue "overarching policies and procedures'' and to coordinate among the country's 16 spy agencies. The year-long process to craft the reforms led to fierce turf battles, the Wall Street Journal reported, but said intelligence officials told the paper they would work within the new framework. In what the Post called ``one of the more controversial changes'', the revisions give the DNI authority to engage other countries' intelligence services, a job that used to be done by the CIA. US intelligence agencies will still be prohibited from assassinating foreign leaders and conducting "human experimentation'', the Post reported. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
