U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday adopted several recommendations for overhauling the U.S. intelligence community proposed by the commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The main recommendation involves creation of a new national intelligence director and would require Congress to revise the National Security Act that created the National Security Council and the CIA in 1947. Bush was expected to implement other recommendations unilaterally in coming weeks through formal executive orders. During a presentation in the White House Rose Garden on Monday, the president: ** asked Congress to create the position of national intelligence director, who would lead the government's intelligence community, including both foreign and domestic activities. The new director would be appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate and serve as the president's principal intelligence adviser; ** said he would place the CIA under the management of a separate director once a new national intelligence chief has been confirmed by the Senate; ** said he would establish a National Counter-Terrorism Center as the government's "knowledge bank" for terrorist information to be overseen by a director reporting to the new national intelligence chief. The center would coordinate and monitor the counter-terrorism plans and activities of all government agencies and departments, and prepare a daily terrorism threat report for the president; --More 2325 Local Time 2025 GMT
