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A new director of national intelligence and a counterterrorism center are the central elements of the intelligence bill President Bush (news - web sites) will sign Friday. But the measure includes provisions intended to shore up security at airports, seaports and borders; halt terrorist financing and travel; help law enforcement officials; protect civil liberties; and promote U.S. values overseas. A look at key elements of the bill: Border security. Aiming to strengthen security along the nation's notoriously porous borders, Congress authorized the Homeland Security Department to hire 2,000 more border agents and 800 more Customs and immigration agents each year...

President Bush (news - web sites) is searching not only for a new director of national intelligence to become his chief adviser on intelligence but also for three other senior officials who will work atop the new organization created by the intelligence reform act he is scheduled to sign into law tomorrow. Along with the job of the intelligence director, or DNI, there is to be a principal deputy DNI, a director of a new national counterterrorism center, and a general counsel to the DNI, all of whom must be presidential appointees subject to Senate confirmation. In addition, the new...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp. has reached an agreement to hire hundreds of Hewlett-Packard Co. engineers who helped design the Itanium microprocessor, a massive joint project between the two technology companies since the early 1990s. As a result, all Itanium processor design work will now be done entirely within Intel, though HP on Wednesday announced it plans to invest more than $3 billion over the next three years to continue its commitment to the chip. The HP team, which is based in Fort Collins, Colo., will not have to relocate, said Intel spokesman Robert Manetta. Other terms of...

Here is what I think, please feel free to respond and please keep it civil... The Intel reform bill, as a see it, is a bomb in the making. It adds a layer (or two) to the Intel process. Just what we need, more bureacracy!!! This entire bill should have just focused on INTEL REFORM. I know that there are provisions in this bill for USBP agents and that there were more stringent illegal immigration measures in this bill, but I am glad they were taken out. Why am I glad? Both issues need addressed separately. Both are grave concerns...

We love the sound of breaking, [Eva] Glass Ron Curry was formerly on the Intel Itanium team and said that he'd talked to software ISVs about the Itanium shortly after the firm announced its plans for the chip. He said a far more interesting thing too. According to Curry, Intel's "competitor" - that's AMD of course, took advantage of the work it had done. He said that the competitor announced its move into the 64-32 arena largely based on the work Intel had done.

International Business Machines, whose first I.B.M. PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said yesterday. While I.B.M. long ago ceded the lead in the personal computer market to Dell and Hewlett-Packard so it could focus instead on the more lucrative corporate server and computer services business, a sale would nonetheless bring the end of an era in an industry that it helped invent. The sale, likely to be in the $1 billion to $2 billion range, is...

One sign that Intel is having trouble dancing to technology's current beat may be the world's most expensive disco ball.For a company holiday party next month, a handful of engineers assembled a disco ball - with hundreds of small reflective devices - to hang above the dance floor. The mirrors are leftover projection-television chips from Intel's planned effort to enter the digital television market - an effort the company recently abandoned only 10 months after a splashy introduction at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. The TV effort became yet another in a series of embarrassing stumbles for Intel. The...

In the beginning Intel created the 4004 and the 8008. And these processors were without enough memory and throughput. And Intel said "Let there be an 8080," and there was an 8080 and Intel saw that it was good. And Intel separated the 8008 market from the 8080 market. And Intel said, "Let there be an 8085 with an oscillator on the same chip as the processor, and let an on-chip system controller separate the data from the control lines." And Intel made a firmament and divided the added instructions which were under the firmament from the added instructions which...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans on Saturday blocked passage of legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commission's terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush, but GOP leaders said they would press the effort later this year. However, the failure to get an agreement in Congress' postelection session most likely means the legislation will die for the year. "It's hard to reform. It's hard to make changes," Speaker Dennis Hastert said as House members left town after a rare weekend session.

A new director was named Tuesday for Canada's spy service, which has been without a permanent head since Ward Elcock ended his 10-year term in the spring. Prime Minister Paul Martin said Tuesday that the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service will be headed by Jim Judd, who has formerly served as the highest-ranking bureaucrat with the Department of National Defence. Coincidentally, Mr. Elcock was named in August to the defence post Mr. Judd once held. "Jim Judd brings proven and sound leadership to his new position," Mr. Martin said in a statement. "His unique combination of foreign and defence policy...

Do any of you remember the "accidental" meeting/contacts between Kerry people and Iranians, and recently S. Korean intel agents? This would explain the radical, illogical answers tonight.

New York, September 21: President Pervez Musharraf has said he would not allow American investigators to question Pakistan's disgraced scientist A.Q. Khan who provided nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Musharraf in an interview to The New York Times said he had succeeded in breaking up Khan's network but was not certain if the full extent of the scientist's activities had been discovered. "I'm 200 per cent sure that it has been shut down," the General said of Khan's network. "But if you say whether I am sure over what he's provided in the past, no sir, I'm...

US President George W. Bush (right) with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 22 September 2004 1307 hrs Singh-Musharraf summit could speed up South Asian peace process NEW DELHI : The first summit between India's new prime minister and Pakistan's president could give an impetus to the nations' slow-moving peace process but a solution on Kashmir remains distant, analysts say. Manmohan Singh, who became prime minister in May after his left-leaning coalition's shock election victory, is to meet President Pervez Musharraf Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations General...

For 35 years, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD ) stood in the shadow of archrival Intel Corp. (INTC ) AMD churned out lower-priced clones of the tech leader's chips and occasionally enjoyed a hit that helped boost its meager profits. But bad times easily outweighed the good. Again and again, Intel used its manufacturing muscle and pricing power to stymie AMD's ambitions, preventing it from gaining a foothold in lucrative markets such as servers and corporate PCs. Wave goodbye to the great imitator. In what may prove to be an historic reversal of fortune, AMD Chief Executive Hector de Jesus...

French connection armed Saddam By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The United States stood by for years as supposed allies helped its enemies obtain the world's most dangerous weapons, reveals Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, in the new book "Treachery" (Crown Forum). In this excerpt, he details France's persistence in arming Saddam Hussein. First of three excerpts New intelligence revealing how long France continued to supply and arm Saddam Hussein's regime infuriated U.S. officials as the nation prepared for military action against Iraq. The intelligence reports showing French assistance to Saddam ongoing in the...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An emerging wireless communications technology called WiMAX, which can blanket entire cities with high-speed Internet connections, will rival DSL and cable as the preferred way to connect homes and businesses to the Internet, Intel Corp. said on Tuesday. "I think that WiMAX could be to DSL and cable what cellular was to landline (phones) not too long ago," Intel President Paul Otellini said at a technical conference hosted by the Santa Clara, California-based company. Intel has begun shipping samples of WiMAX chips to customers and has committed to building WiMAX into its Centrino notebook computer chips...

With all the criticism of negative political TV ads - and their potential to backfire - you've got to hand it to the candidate who's willing to put his name on a tough attack ad.       That voters hear George W. Bush's personal approval of a new ad about John Kerry's attendance record at Senate Intelligence Committee meetings actually adds to its punch, perhaps because such backing is so rare this election season.       We don't normally get too worked up about an elected official's attendance record at congressional committee meetings. The real work of legislating often gets done elsewhere....

[snip]The purpose of Hastert's comments was to increase Republican pressure on Kerry over his Senate record on intelligence, a major issue for both presidential candidates. They also coincided with the first broadcast in 19 battleground states of a new Bush television ad, titled ''Intel," that highlights Kerry's attendance record and questions his commitment to intelligence spending. And in a separate press statement, the Bush side tweaked Kerry counterparts for erroneously asserting Friday that the Democrat was once vice chairman of the intelligence committee. (Former senator Robert Kerrey held that position.) Hastert yesterday, echoing previous comments from six GOP senators, called...

August 16, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — President Bush is unleashing a new ad today bashing rival John Kerry for trying to gain political points by capitalizing on the hot issue of intelligence reform. Kerry has embraced the sweeping recommendations to overhaul the U.S. intelligence community put forth by the 9/11 commission, while Bush recently backed a modified form of the proposals. In the new ad, titled "Intel," the Bush team ridicules Kerry as a Johnny-come-lately who only now — after 19 years in the Senate — is trying to beef up the U.S. intelligence system. It opens with a replay...

Script for "Intel" President Bush: I'm George W. Bush and I approve this message. Voice Over: John Kerry promises ... Graphic: John Kerry promises ... John Kerry: I will immediately reform the intelligence system. Voice Over: Oh really... As a member of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the Committee's hearings. Graphic: John Kerry... ABSENT 76% of public Senate Intelligence Committee Hearings Voice Over: In the year after the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Kerry was absent for every single one. Graphic: John Kerry... ABSENT every single public Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing...