Intelligence chief's office faces changes

When Ambassador John Negroponte returns from Iraq next month to seek confirmation as the nation's new intelligence chief, he will find Congress already threatening to tinker with last year's intelligence-reform act -- the law that established his office.

Although Mr. Negroponte's supporters insist he has a strong mandate from the president, other observers see the legislative tinkering as a sign that the ambiguous language that resulted from months of wrangling over the law has left the new intelligence chief's authority unclear in several key respects.
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...one bill -- drafted by a bipartisan group of senators on the Armed Services Committee -- is already under consideration, and others are thought to be in the works.

The bill would create a supporting intelligence command, called INTCOM, headed by a four-star general, which would command all the military's intelligence assets, parceling them out in response to requests from the new intelligence director and from other combatant commands in the military.

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