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Bush's Intelligence Briefing Gets Overhaul

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:57:01 PM
By KATHERINE SHRADER

President Bush and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia hold a joint press conference, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, in the East Room at the White House. Howard has announced that Australia will send 150 elite troops to Afghanistan by September to fight a growing tide of insurgent-led violence.    (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's secret morning intelligence briefing is getting an overhaul, drawing on new sources of information and trimming others, nearly four months after a presidential commission criticized the daily report for being ineffective.

In a rare look at how the president receives his intelligence each day, two senior intelligence officials said Bush is now getting written assessments and verbal briefings that pluck information from across the government's 15 spy agencies, rather than almost exclusively relying on the CIA.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity at the request of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.


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