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BUSH PUSHES POLS ON INTEL MESS

Upon their return to Washington tomorrow, lawmakers must immediately get to work figuring out a way to break the impasse on intelligence reform, President Bush demanded yesterday.

Bush has recently turned up the heat on Congress after House Republicans put the kibosh on the reform bill, which would create a national intelligence director and overhaul America’s 15 intelligence agencies.

“We are safer, but we are not yet safe,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “The enemy is still plotting, and America must respond with urgency.”

While Bush wants to give the NID full budget authority over the spy agencies, the reform bill calls only for “significant authority. Post Wire Services