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Originally posted by Superbelt
I believe, as commander-in-chief all intelligence agencies serve the President. Bush has the power of appointment to each agency as well.
They strive to provide indepenent info, but I believe the President makes the call on whether info can be released or not, even to Congress.
Additionally Cheney was set up as the head of Iraqi Intelligence in the run up to the Iraq war. His creation in the Pentagon, The Office of Special Plans was used to directly collect all other intelligence agencies data so it could be fed to the appropriate outlets, like congress.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/san...cs/7859310.htm
Otherwise the Iraq War vote would not have gone smoothly as it did. Tenet had plenty of information, which has been coming out since we went to war, that directly refuted each claim Bush was making about Iraqi wmd.
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Actually that isn't quite true.
As I mentioned above, they also report directly to congress.
Also, the president nominates the heads and seconds for the agencies, but Congress approves them.