Swearing in of Director of National Intelligence

Описание: (19 May 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Wide of US President George Bush walking on stage at swearing in, pan to audience
2. Cutaway, CIA Director Porter Goss and FBI Director Robert Mueller
3. End of swearing in
4. Cutaway Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
5. Wide view of Bush at podium
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"We've now implemented the vast majority of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations through executive orders and the intelligence reform bill I signed last December. My administration is also reviewing all the recommendations made by the Silverman-Robb Commission on weapons of mass destruction. We've already begun to implement a number of their recommendations. We will continue to evaluate and act on the commission's useful blueprint to improve the quality and quantity of intelligence we collect and to be able to analyse that intelligence more thoroughly."
7. Wide view of stage
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence:
"I can truthfully say that I've never really wanted to do anything else, whether I was stationed in Vietnam, or Greece, Iraq or Mexico, or here in Washington. Why? Because the United States represents freedom. The United States represents peace and the United States represents opportunity."
9. Crowd cutaway
10. Bush and Negroponte shake hands and Bush goes into audience

STORYLINE

US President George W. Bush on Wednesday attended the ceremonial swearing in of the new Director of National Intelligence.

John Negroponte will coordinate intelligence agencies charged with protecting America from perceived threats around the globe.

The new post was created as the result of a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission who reported to the president last autumn.

Bush talked about the commission's work in his remarks at the swearing in ceremony.

Negroponte has served in diplomatic roles for every president since Eisenhower and, most recently, was US Ambassador to Iraq.

Wednesday's event was purely ceremonial - Negroponte was officially sworn on April 23, the day after he was confirmed by the US Senate for the top position of coordinating all intelligence gathering activities.

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