(NYT44) NEW YORK — Dec. 7, 2004 — TERROR-CONGRESS-9 — A man stops to read an informational poster at the site of the World Trade Center in New York on a rainy Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004. The biggest overhaul of the U.S. intelligence network in a half century neared a House vote Tuesday, part of a broad measure that also aimed to intensify aviation and border security in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)