Originally published July 18 2005
To improve intelligence community, Bush announces formation of National Security Service
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
President Bush answered the intelligence community's critics Wednesday, June 29 when he announced the formation of the National Security Service (NSS), which is to be the FBI's national security branch. In other words: a domestic spy service. Now the U.S. government will be officially spying on its own citizens.
The new service will specialize in intelligence and other national security matters and follow the priorities laid out by Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.
The service will operate within the FBI and combine the disparate assets of the Justice Department's counterterrorism, intelligence and espionage units.
"A stronger, more vibrant intelligence community produces better intelligence products upon which good decisions can be made," she told reporters at a White House briefing.
"The steps we are taking to strengthen the intelligence community help us to prevent terror attacks."
Establishing a National Counter Proliferation Center, with a director who will make sure the government tracks the worldwide proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
In all, Bush endorsed 70 of 74 recommendations made by the WMD commission, formally known as the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Mueller rejected suggestions that the changes marked a reduction in FBI independence.
CIA Director Porter Goss applauded the measures, saying it "reaffirms our role as the lead for human intelligence."
The recommendations were also welcomed by Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.
Bush formed the commission in February 2004 and charged it "with assessing whether the intelligence community is sufficiently authorized, organized, equipped, trained, and resourced to identify and warn" about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The president will also ask Congress to support two other measures that would require legislation: changing congressional oversight of intelligence agencies and extending the duration of electronic surveillance in cases involving foreign agents.
Bush earlier this year named Negroponte the first director of national intelligence, saying he would serve as the principal adviser on intelligence issues and would have authority over the budgets of the 15 U.S. intelligence agencies.
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