1/2 weeks before lawmakers return from their summer recess to Capitol Hill, where competing intelligence reform measures have already been proposed. "Until the national intelligence director is created by Congress, we want to make sure that we have an interim structure in place to oversee some of these steps that we are taking," McClellan told reporters. A new intelligence czar with broad authority over the 15 U.S. spy agencies was a main recommendation of the bipartisan commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. But to establish the post, Congress must amend the National Security Act of 1947 that created the CIA, the National Security Council and the Defense Department at the outset of the Cold War. Bush has nominated former U.S. House of Representatives intelligence chief Porter Goss as CIA director to replace George Tenet, who resigned last month after spectacular lapses involving Iraq and Sept. 11. Goss will face hearings before the Senate intelligence committee early next month. --More 2136 Local Time 1836 GMT
