The proposal to create a director of national intelligence closely mirrors legislation introduced last summer by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California.
The proposal to create a director of national intelligence attempts to address many of the same problems by splitting the job in two.
The Democrats also revived a proposal to create a director of national intelligence with budgetary and statutory authority over the entire intelligence community, including agencies now under control of the Defense Department.
Mr. Scowcroft's proposal, drafted more than a year ago but essentially ignored by the White House until recently, would also create a director of national intelligence, one with even broader powers than in Ms. Harman's plan.
"The facts in this report form an inescapable indictment of the status quo that begs for a comprehensive structural overhaul of our entire intelligence community," said Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine, a sponsor of a bill, along with Mrs. Feinstein, to create a director of national intelligence.
After being petitioned to bring Broken Sword to the Wii and Nintendo DS, Charles Cecil and Revolution decided to create a director's cut.
In sad memory of the 418 Maine people who lost their lives to drug overdose in 2017, our Administration will create a Director of Opiate Response, a person who will marshal the collective power and resources of state government to stem the tide of this epidemic.
No doubt, Congress would quickly pass a bill creating a director of national intelligence.
The law created a Director of Central Intelligence to command all 14 intelligence agencies, but it didn't give him any authority.
In one indication of how seriously he takes the effort, in Albany, Mr. Cuomo has created a director of cabinet affairs position, which he said he drew from his Clinton days.
