Executive Order 13356
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Executive Order 13356 is a
United States President The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...
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Executive Order In the United States, an executive order is a directive by the president of the United States that manages operations of the federal government. The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of t ...
signed on August 27, 2004, by President
George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
. Its goal was "Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information To Protect Americans". It was supplemented by and partially superseded Executive Order 13388. Section 1 of the executive order lays out a policy change, instructing the directors of US intelligence agencies: Later sections of the Executive Order specified the details of how the directors of intelligence agencies should implement this policy change.


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{{Reflist American intelligence gathering law Executive orders of George W. Bush