Bush Signs Defense, Intelligence Measures

President Bush signed a bill to boost intelligence spending but warned Congress that he won’t yield documents he thinks could compromise national security.

Bush also signed a $343-billion defense bill that gives what he wanted for his missile defense program, provides the largest military pay raises in two decades and sets up a round of base closures for 2005.

In signing the intelligence bill at his ranch in Crawford, Bush objected to a provision he said “purports to require” the administration to file written reports to congressional committees concerning intelligence failures.