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Intelligence aides, ACLU hit 9/11 report

Oppose proposal to create national director position

By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / August 4, 2004

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WASHINGTON -- Top intelligence officials who rarely testify in public went to Capitol Hill yesterday to try to put the brakes on the 9/11 commission's plan for a powerful national intelligence director to oversee their agencies. They found an unusual set of allies: civil libertarians who warned against rushing to bestow such wide authority on one individual. (Full Article: 1007 Words)

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