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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's new clearinghouse for intelligence on terrorism appears to have become an obstacle to information-sharing between intelligence agencies, a senior Republican lawmaker said on Thursday. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, warned that the seven-month-old National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC, was preventing analysts from other intelligence agencies from gaining the same access to information on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush approved dozens ofchanges at U.S. spy agencies on Wednesday to better combatweapons of mass destruction, including creating a new centerand moving FBI counterterrorism and intelligence operationsinto a new unit. Acting in the face of sharp criticism since the Sept. 11,2001, attacks, Bush signed off on 70 of 74 recommendations froma special presidential commission and gave U.S. authorities newpowers to freeze assets of companies believed to be...

By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has accepted 70 of74 recommendations from a presidential commission on weapons ofmass destruction, including creating a new counterproliferationcenter and lumping the FBI counterterrorism and intelligenceoperations into a new unit, sources briefed on Tuesday said. The WMD commission issued a 600-page report on March 31that sharply criticized U.S. intelligence efforts on Iraq'sweapons of mass destruction as "dead wrong" and...