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The Senate today approved landmark legislation to restructure the nation's intelligence community, creating a director of national intelligence and a counterterrorism center.

The Senate voted 89 to 2 to pass the long-debated measure, which sponsors said would better coordinate government intelligence assets and avert the type of lapses that occurred prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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