Rep. Cole Votes for Bill to Strenthen Intelligence Capabilities

WASHINGTON – Representative Tom Cole voted yesterday for a comprehensive bill that will give federal intelligence gathering agencies the resources to help them more effectively fight and win the War on Terror. The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5020) passed in the House today.

“This legislation will be a great boost for federal intelligence agencies that were neglected after the Cold War, suffering steep cuts during the 1990's," Congressman Cole said. "We must give our intelligence personnel every tool necessary to root out terrorists and disrupt terror plots against our country and other U.S. interests. The intelligence community is vital to the ongoing War on Terrorism."

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 will:

Boost human intelligence capabilities and the ability to conduct unilateral operations.
Authorize funding for additional personnel, improved human intelligence training and funding for analytical tools and resources.
Strengthen our overall capabilities and gives America the modern, lean, agile and aggressive Intelligence Community it needs.
Improve coordination between the Intelligence Community and military to increase our efforts and effectiveness in the Global War on Terror
Increase House Intelligence and Armed Services coordination to advance common systems and capabilities to fight the Global War on Terror.

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