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Article: Revising The Old Plan.(National Security Presidential Directive, United States)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- March 27, 2006
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The Bush administration released a key document last week, following on the signing of a classified directive that gives new orders to government agencies about their roles in the war on terrorism. As a result, the National Counterterrorism Center must now produce a National Implementation Plan in the next 90 days. The NCTC, created by Congress after the 9/11 attacks, has already compiled a database of some 200,000 suspected terrorists or terrorist facilitators. Last week, the deputy director of the center, Kevin Brock, said that law enforcement in the United States is turning up about 60 "hits" a day from that list.
The new version of the administration's ...