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President Barack Obama's administration threatened to veto the renewal of the Intelligence Authorization Act for the fiscal year of 2012, unless changes are made to protect diplomatic communications and ensure a speedy confirmation of the director of the National Security Agency.

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are hoping to require the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Defense to submit a detailed report on how terrorist ringleader Osama bin Laden was found and eventually killed, mandating agencies turn over the classified information in exchange for their 2012 funding.