Assignment of Reporting Functions Relating to the Information Sharing Environment

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Part IV

The President

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Memorandum of September 8, 2007--Assignment of Reporting Functions
Relating to the Information Sharing Environment

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Title 3--
The President

Memorandum of September 8, 2007

Assignment of Reporting Functions Relating to the
Information Sharing Environment

Memorandum for the Secretary of State[,] the Secretary
of Defense[,] the Attorney General[,] the Secretary of
Energy[,] the Secretary of Homeland Security[, and] the
Director of National Intelligence

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and laws of the United States, including
section 301 of title 3, United States Code, the
reporting functions of the President under subsections
(h) and (j) of section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-
458), as amended by the Implementing Recommendations of
the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53)
(IRTPA), are hereby assigned to the Director of
National Intelligence (Director). The Director shall
consult the Secretaries of State, Defense, Energy,
Homeland Security, and the Attorney General in
performing such functions.

Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent
permitted by law, furnish to the Director information
that the Director requests to perform such functions,
in the format and on the schedule specified by the
Director.

The Director shall perform such functions in a manner
consistent with the President's constitutional
authority to withhold information the disclosure of
which could impair foreign relations, national
security, the deliberative processes of the Executive,
and the performance of the Executive's constitutional
duties.

Any reference in this memorandum to the provision of
IRTPA shall be deemed to include references to any
hereafter-enacted provision of law that is the same or
substantially the same as such provision.

The Director is authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, September 8, 2007.