But they said it was unclear whether the new cabinet intelligence officer would have budgetary and personnel control over those F.B.I. units.
Mr. Bush made his final decisions about how to proceed on Sunday, White House officials said, after more than a week of intensive meetings among cabinet, intelligence and law enforcement officials and the emergence of the terrorist threat against financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington.
"That is an accusation against the prime minister, the foreign secretary, the cabinet, the intelligence agencies, against me and the people who work for me.
His contention that had he had the attention of the president, and senior cabinet members, intelligence agencies may have been more alert to the threat cannot be proven.
The report details broad government failures in connection with the Sept. 11 plot and recommends a wide-ranging restructuring that would include a Cabinet-level intelligence director to oversee the CIA, the FBI and other intelligence agencies.
But the joint committee pushed today for still greater changes, including the creation of a cabinet-level intelligence czar, the creation of a national center to maintain a centralized terrorist "watch list," and the elimination of "obsolete barriers" to interagency coordination.
The document, to be released at a news conference here this morning, identifies as many as 10 opportunities to potentially unravel the plot and recommends a dramatic overhaul of counterterrorism efforts, including creation of a Cabinet-level intelligence chief, according to officials who have read the document, which has been the subject of a strict embargo.
The 9/11 Commission's proposal to create a cabinet-level intelligence czar who would oversee all intelligence collections and analyses is an idea that deserves to go nowhere.
and Shin Bet (its F.B.I ., President Shimon Peres, and members of Netanyahu's cabinet, including the Intelligence Minister.
The whole cabinet believed the intelligence we were presented [with] and we made our case to the British people based on it in good faith.
Similarly, she argues, no prime minister should be at liberty to bypass cabinet by confining intelligence and influence to a favoured inner circle.
