National Security Service created within FBI.

• Author: Pappalardo, Joe
• Position: SECURITY BEAT: Homeland Defense Briefs

President George W. Bush authorized the creation of a National Security Service, a move designed to consolidate homeland security investigations.

The service will operate within the FBI and combine Justice Department counterterrorism, intelligence and espionage units. The move is seen as a consolidation of power under Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.

Bush has endorsed all but four of the 74 recommendations made by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Other commission recommendations becoming reality include the establishment of a national counter proliferation center and granting control of all overseas human intelligence operations to the CIA. The agency's...