http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-08-27/news/0408270124_1_national-intelligence-intelligence-director-new-intelligence
SunSentinel
Cia Chief To Get Added Powers
President Plans Move Designated To Be Temporary
August 27, 2004 By Douglas Jehl and Philip Shenon The New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Bush is preparing to issue an executive order that would immediately grant more power to the director of central intelligence, designating him to fill much of the role envisioned for a future national intelligence director, according to senior government officials who have been briefed on the plan.
The order, to be issued as soon as this weekend, would be cast as an interim measure intended as a first step toward putting into effect recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, whose call for a new, more powerful national intelligence chief would require congressional legislation.
With a broad consensus emerging in support of such an intelligence chief, the White House is expected to continue to ask Congress to approve such a post, the government officials said. But the question of how much authority should be given to a new intelligence chief remains the subject of sharp debate between members of the Sept. 11 commission, legislators and the White House, and it is unclear whether it will be resolved before the presidential election.
The interim action by the White House would strengthen the hand of the current director of central intelligence, who heads the CIA and has nominal authority over all over intelligence agencies but whose actual powers beyond the CIA have been limited. The government officials who have been briefed on the document said they understood that it would effectively create as powerful a national intelligence chief as permissible under current law.
Among other things, the executive order will direct the heads of other agencies, including the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, to allow the director of central intelligence to exercise his full authority on budgetary and other matters.
The planned announcement, which will probably precede next week's Republican National Convention, would come as part of a package that would include at least two other executive orders, the government officials said.
One would create a new National Counterterrorism Center, with authority to direct operations in the realms of diplomacy, the military, intelligence, law enforcement and financial matters, and reporting to the director of central intelligence.
The other executive order would be designed to promote greater information-sharing between intelligence agencies, the government officials said.
The officials said some details of the White House plans, including the extent of any new budget authority to be given to the director of central intelligence as part of the executive order, were still being debated within the administration. They said they understood that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was reluctant to limit the budgetary power currently wielded by the Pentagon, which controls as estimated 85 percent of the country's $40 billion intelligence budget.
John E. McLaughlin, the deputy director of central intelligence, has served as acting director of central intelligence since the resignation on July 11 of George J. Tenet. Bush has nominated Rep. Porter J. Goss, R-Sanibel, to become director.
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FlashForward
Pilot
Episode # 101
NEWS REPORTER: Good morning Los Angeles. It's 7 o'clock and it looks like it's gonna be another beautiful day. We're looking at light clouds and highs in the mid 70s today. Keep that umbrella handy because we've got a chance of sprinkles later on.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:33 PM Pacific Time Seattle USA Sunday 03 March 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/03/us-and-them.html
Sometime around that time back in 2003 I had read also about the director of human resources being a competitor in Ironman triathlons and I wrote to him about how I could wait to get back out to Coeur d'Alene and rub my toes in the sand of the lake's beach.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 03 March 2013 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Mon, February 13, 2006 1:18:17 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 2/13/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Not sure about this dream from when I finally got back to sleep this morning. I wanted to stay awake to watch the morning news but I was feeling the urge to watch my favorite anchorperson. If I watch her, I am going to talk and who knows how many sociopaths out there are listening to all this.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 13 February 2006 excerpt ends]
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted sailor and circa 2012 my United States of America military service continues as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps lieutenant general ) To 8/27/2004 is 7409 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/14/1986 ( premiere US film "The Delta Force" ) is 7409 days
From 3/24/1952 ( premiere US film "Oklahoma Annie" ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 14178 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/27/2004 is 14178 days
From 11/2/1984 ( premiere US film "The Killing Fields" ) To 8/27/2004 is 7238 days
7238 = 3619 + 3619
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) is 3619 days
From 2/25/1956 ( Nikita Khrushchev - The Secret Speech On the Cult of Personality ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 14178 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/27/2004 is 14178 days
From 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 8/27/2004 is 2090 days
2090 = 1045 + 1045
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/12/1968 ( premiere US TV movie "Certain Honorable Men" ) is 1045 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 8/27/2004 is 11934 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/6/1998 ( Roy Rogers dead ) is 11934 days
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/27CND-INTE.html
The New York Times
Bush Signs Order Bolstering C.I.A. Director's Power
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: August 27, 2004
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — President Bush issued a new order today enhancing the powers of the director of central intelligence, but the White House acknowledged that new legislation still was needed to establish the kind of strong national intelligence director recommended by the independent Sept. 11 commission.
The move, along with a separate order to establish a new national counterterrorism center, was described by the White House as a "down payment" toward the more extensive overhaul recommended by the commission, whose terms are now the subject of a debate on Capitol Hill.
A senior White House official called the moves a strong signal that Mr. Bush wanted the existing head of the Central Intelligence Agency, as an interim measure, to take the lead in overseeing all of the country's 15 intelligence agencies, along the lines envisioned for a future national intelligence chief. The official said the order would give the existing intelligence chief limited new powers in determining the budget of national-level intelligence programs.
But Congressional Democrats called on the White House to go further by endorsing a recommendation by the Sept. 11 commission that any new national intelligence director established by Congress be given hiring, firing and budgetary authority over all the intelligence agencies.
"At the end of the day, Congress is going to have to enact comprehensive reform, and we need real leadership from the president to get it done," said Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"Will the president rise to the challenge and override turf battles to support a national intelligence director with true budget authority over the entire intelligence community?" Mr. Rockefeller said in a statement. "That remains an open question."
The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, would say only that Mr. Bush would work with Congress to make sure that the proposed national intelligence director has enough authority over spending and hiring and firing "so they can do the job and do it effectively."
The moves were among four executive orders and two presidential directives issued by the White House today to promote an intelligence overhaul, as Mr. Bush promised early this month in response to the recommendations issued by the Sept. 11 commission. Mr. McClellan said the moves "will improve our ability to find, track and stop terrorists."
Nevertheless, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said the moves would "fall short" of what's needed to enact "meaningful intelligence reform."
"The proposal announced today does not get the job done," Mr. Edwards said today in a statement. "Expanding the powers of the existing director of central intelligence is a far cry from creating a true national intelligence director with real control over personnel and budgets."
In a conference call with reporters, a senior White House official described Mr. Bush as having "strained the limits of his executive authority" in his effort to strengthen the powers of the current intelligence chief to the greatest extent possible under existing law. But when asked to point specifically to new authority granted to a director of central intelligence under the order, the White House official cited only a change that would allow the intelligence chief to "determine" the national intelligence budget, in addition to his old powers to "develop and present" it to the president.
Under the National Security Act of 1947, the director of central intelligence has always had the authority to coordinate activities of other intelligence agencies, such as the National Security Agency and National Reconnaissance Office, even though they are part of the Pentagon. The White House official made clear that one purpose of the order was to reinforce that existing power.
"What it does is, it states the president's clear intention that the D.C.I. execute his full authority," the senior White House official said.
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Oklahoma Annie (1952)
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Oklahoma Annie (1952)
A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff.
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The Delta Force (1986)
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The Delta Force (1986)
Full Cast & Crew
Chuck Norris ... Maj. Scott McCoy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/apr/26/greatspeeches2
guardian.co.uk
Series: Great speeches of the 20th century
The cult of the individual
Nikita Khrushchev
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 April 2007 01.34 BST
Comrades! In the party central committee's report at the 20th congress and in a number of speeches by delegates to the congress a lot has been said about the cult of the individual. After Stalin's death, the central committee began explaining that it is foreign to the spirit of Marxism-Leninism to elevate one person, to transform him into a superman possessing supernatural characteristics, akin to those of a god. Such a man supposedly knows everything, sees everything, thinks for everyone, can do anything, is infallible in his behaviour.
Such a belief about a man, and specifically about Stalin, was cultivated among us for many years. The objective of this report is not a thorough evaluation of Stalin's life and activity. Concerning Stalin's merits, an entirely sufficient number of books, pamphlets and studies had already been written in his lifetime. Stalin's role in the execution of the socialist revolution, in the civil war, and in the construction of socialism is universally known.
At present, we are concerned with how the cult of Stalin has been gradually growing, the cult which became the source of a whole series of exceedingly serious perversions of party principles, of party democracy, of revolutionary legality. The central committee considers it absolutely necessary to make material pertaining to this matter available to the 20th congress.
The great modesty of the genius of the revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, is known. Lenin always stressed the role of the people as the creator of history. Lenin mercilessly stigmatised every manifestation of the cult of the individual. Lenin never imposed his views by force. He tried to convince. He patiently explained his opinions to others.
Lenin detected in Stalin those negative characteristics which resulted later in grave consequences. Fearing the future fate of the of the Soviet nation, Lenin pointed out that it was necessary to consider transferring Stalin from the position of general secretary because Stalin did not have a proper attitude toward his comrades.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101140.html
The Washington Post
Happy Anniversary, Nikita Khrushchev
By Anne Applebaum
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
It is, I admit, an odd thing to celebrate: A long-winded and not entirely honest speech, made behind closed doors, addressed to the stony-faced leaders of a country that no longer exists. Nevertheless, I'm reluctant to let the 50th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's famous "secret speech" -- his denunciation of Stalin and Stalinism, delivered to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party on Feb. 25, 1956 -- pass without notice. We are, after all, at another important historical moment. Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, has just announced that we will spend $75 million promoting democracy and fighting a totalitarian regime in Iran. We have thousands of soldiers in Iraq, trying to pick up the pieces after the collapse of another totalitarian regime there. Since Khrushchev's secret speech was the first step in what turned out to be a very long struggle to end totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, it's worth remembering now what the circumstances that surrounded it actually were.
In essence, Khrushchev's speech (which didn't remain secret very long; Polish communists leaked it to the Israelis, who leaked it to the West) was a piece of theater, a four-hour harangue during which the new Soviet leader denounced the "cult of personality" that had surrounded Stalin, condemned torture and acknowledged that "mass arrests and deportation of thousands and thousands of people" had "created insecurity, fear and even desperation" in his country. But although it was an international sensation -- no Soviet leader had spoken so frankly before -- the speech didn't exactly tell the whole truth. Khrushchev accused Stalin of many crimes, but deftly left out the ones in which he himself had been implicated. As William Taubman, author of "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era," has documented, the Soviet leader had in fact collaborated enthusiastically with Stalinist terror, participating in the very mass arrests he condemned. Khrushchev's speech was intended as much to consolidate his own power and intimidate his party opponents -- all of whom had also collaborated enthusiastically -- as it was to liberate his countrymen.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html
Modern History Sourcebook:
Nikita S. Khrushchev:
The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956
Secret Speech Delivered by First Party Secretary at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956
Comrades, in the report of the Central Committee of the party at the 20th Congress, in a number of speeches by delegates to the Congress, as also formerly during the plenary CC/CPSU sessions, quite a lot has been said about the cult of the individual and about its harmful consequences. . . .
Allow me first of all to remind you bow severely the classics of Marxism-Leninism denounced every manifestation of the cult of the individual. In a letter to the German political worker, Wilhelm Bloss, Marx stated: "From my antipathy to any cult of the individual, I never made public during the existence of the International the numerous addresses from various countries which recognized my merits and which annoyed me. I did not even reply to them, except sometimes to rebuke their authors. Engels and I first joined the secret society of Communists on the condition that everything making for superstitious worship of authority would be deleted from its statute. . . .
The great modesty of the genius of the revolution, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, is known. Lenin had always stressed the role of the people as the creator of history, the directing and organizational role of the party as a living and creative organism, and also the role of the central committee.
Marxism does not negate the role of the leaders of the workers' class in directing the revolutionary liberation movement.
While ascribing great importance to the role of the leaders and organizers of the masses, Lenin at the same time mercilessly stigmatized every manifestation of the cult of the individual, inexorably combated the foreign-to-Marxism views about a "hero" and a "crowd" and countered all efforts to oppose a "hero" to the masses and to the people.
Lenin taught that the party's strength depends on its indissoluble unity with the masses, on the fact that behind the party follow the people - workers, peasants and intelligentsia. "Only lie will win and retain the power," said Lenin, "who believes in the people, who submerges himself in the fountain of the living creativeness of the people.". . .
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The Killing Fields (1984)
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http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040827-5.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 27, 2004
Executive Order National Counterterrorism Center
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 103(c)(8) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (Act), and to protect the security of the United States through strengthened intelligence analysis and strategic planning and intelligence support to operations to counter transnational terrorist threats against the territory, people, and interests of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. (a) To the maximum extent consistent with applicable law, agencies shall give the highest priority to (i) the detection, prevention, disruption, preemption, and mitigation of the effects of transnational terrorist activities against the territory, people, and interests of the United States of America, (ii) the interchange of terrorism information among agencies, (iii) the interchange of terrorism information between agencies and appropriate authorities of States and local governments, and (iv) the protection of the ability of agencies to acquire additional such information.
(b) Agencies shall protect the freedom, information privacy, and other legal rights of Americans in the conduct of activities implementing section 1(a) of this order.
Sec. 2. Establishment of National Counterterrorism Center. (a) There is hereby established a National Counterterrorism Center (Center).
(b) A Director of the Center shall supervise the Center.
(c) The Director of the Center shall be appointed by the Director of Central Intelligence with the approval of the President.
(d) The Director of Central Intelligence shall have authority, direction, and control over the Center and the Director of the Center.
Sec. 3. Functions of the Center. The Center shall have the following functions:
(a) serve as the primary organization in the United States Government for analyzing and integrating all intelligence possessed or acquired by the United States Government pertaining to terrorism and counterterrorism, excepting purely domestic counterterrorism information. The Center may, consistent with applicable law, receive, retain, and disseminate information from any Federal, State, or local government, or other source necessary to fulfill its responsibilities concerning the policy set forth in section 1 of this order; and agencies authorized to conduct counterterrorism activities may query Center data for any information to assist in their respective responsibilities;
(b) conduct strategic operational planning for counterterrorism activities, integrating all instruments of national power, including diplomatic, financial, military, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement activities within and among agencies;
(c) assign operational responsibilities to lead agencies for counterterrorism activities that are consistent with applicable law and that support strategic plans to counter terrorism. The Center shall ensure that agencies have access to and receive intelligence needed to accomplish their assigned activities. The Center shall not direct the execution of operations. Agencies shall inform the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council of any objections to designations and assignments made by the Center in the planning and coordination of counterterrorism activities;
(d) serve as the central and shared knowledge bank on known and suspected terrorists and international terror groups, as well as their goals, strategies, capabilities, and networks of contacts and support; and
(e) ensure that agencies, as appropriate, have access to and receive all-source intelligence support needed to execute their counterterrorism plans or perform independent, alternative analysis.
Sec. 4. Duties of the Director of Central Intelligence. The Director of Central Intelligence shall:
(a) exercise the authority available by law to the Director of Central Intelligence to implement this order, including, as appropriate, the authority set forth in section 102(e)(2)(H) of the Act;
(b) report to the President on the implementation of this order, within 120 days after the date of this order and thereafter not less often than annually, including an assessment by the Director of Central Intelligence of:
(1) the effectiveness of the United States in implementing the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, to the extent execution of that policy is within the responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence;
(2) the effectiveness of the Center in the implementation of the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, to the extent execution of that policy is within the responsibilities of the Director of Central Intelligence; and
(3) the cooperation of the heads of agencies in the implementation of this order; and
(c) ensure the performance of all-source intelligence analysis that, among other qualities, routinely considers and presents alternative analytical views to the President, the Vice President in the performance of executive functions, and other officials of the executive branch as appropriate.
Sec. 5. Duties of the Director of the Center. In implementing the policy set forth in section 1 of this order and ensuring that the Center effectively performs the functions set forth in section 3 of this order, the Director of the Center shall:
(a) access, as deemed necessary by the Director of the Center for the performance of the Center's functions, information to which the Director of the Center is granted access by section 6 of this order;
(b) correlate, analyze, evaluate, integrate, and produce reports on terrorism information;
(c) disseminate transnational terrorism information, including current terrorism threat analysis, to the President, the Vice President in the performance of Executive functions, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the Director of Central Intelligence, and other officials of the executive branch as appropriate;
(d) support the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice, and other appropriate agencies, in fulfillment of their responsibility to disseminate terrorism information, consistent with applicable law, Executive Orders and other Presidential guidance, to State and local government officials, and other entities, and coordinate dissemination of terrorism information to foreign governments when approved by the Director of Central Intelligence;
(e) establish both within the Center, and between the Center and agencies, information systems and architectures for the effective access to and integration, dissemination, and use of terrorism information from whatever sources derived;
(f) undertake, as soon as the Director of Central Intelligence determines it to be practicable, all functions assigned to the Terrorist Threat Integration Center;
(g) consistent with priorities approved by the President, assist the Director of Central Intelligence in establishing requirements for the Intelligence Community for the collection of terrorism information, to include ensuring military force protection requirements are met;
(h) under the direction of the Director of Central Intelligence, and in consultation with heads of agencies with organizations in the Intelligence Community, identify, coordinate, and prioritize counterterrorism intelligence requirements for the Intelligence Community; and
(i) identify, together with relevant agencies, specific counterterrorism planning efforts to be initiated or accelerated to protect the national security.
Sec. 6. Duties of the Heads of Agencies. (a) To implement the policy set forth in section 1 of this order:
(i) the head of each agency that possesses or acquires
terrorism information:
(A) shall promptly give access to such information to the Director of the Center, unless prohibited by law (such as section 103(c)(7) of the Act or Executive Order 12958, as amended) or otherwise directed by the President;
(B) shall cooperate in and facilitate the production of reports based on terrorism information with contents and formats that permit dissemination that maximizes the utility of the information in protecting the territory, people, and interests of the United States; and
(C) shall cooperate with the Director of Central Intelligence in the preparation of the report to the President required by section 4 of this order; and (ii) the head of each agency that conducts diplomatic, financial, military, homeland security, intelligence, or law enforcement activities relating to counterterrorism shall keep the Director of the Center fully and currently informed of such activities, unless prohibited by law (such as section 103(c)(7) of the Act or Executive Order 12958, as amended) or otherwise directed by the President.
(b) The head of each agency shall, consistent with applicable law, make available to the Director of the Center such personnel, funding, and other resources as the Director of Central Intelligence, after consultation with the head of the agency and with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, may request. In order to ensure maximum information sharing consistent with applicable law, each agency representative to the Center, unless otherwise specified by the Director of Central Intelligence, shall operate under the authorities of the representative's agency.
Sec. 7. Definitions. As used in this order:
(a) the term "agency" has the meaning set forth for the term "executive agency" in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, together with the Department of Homeland Security, but includes the Postal Rate Commission and the United States Postal Service and excludes the Government Accountability Office;
(b) the term "Intelligence Community" has the meaning set forth for that term in section 3.4(f) of Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981, as amended;
(c) the terms "local government", "State", and, when used in a geographical sense, "United States" have the meanings set forth for those terms in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101); and
(d) the term "terrorism information" means all information, whether collected, produced, or distributed by intelligence, law enforcement, military, homeland security, or other United States Government activities, relating to (i) the existence, organization, capabilities, plans, intentions, vulnerabilities, means of finance or material support, or activities of foreign or international terrorist groups or individuals, or of domestic groups or individuals involved in transnational terrorism; (ii) threats posed by such groups or individuals to the United States, United States persons, or United States interests, or to those of other nations; (iii) communications of or by such groups or individuals; or (iv) information relating to groups or individuals reasonably believed to be assisting or associated with such groups or individuals.
Sec. 8. General Provisions. (a) This order:
(i) shall be implemented in a manner consistent with applicable law, including Federal law protecting the information privacy and other legal rights of Americans, and subject to the availability of appropriations;
(ii) shall be implemented in a manner consistent with the authority of the principal officers of agencies as heads of their respective agencies, including under section 199 of the Revised Statutes (22 U.S.C. 2651), section 201 of the Department of Energy Reorganization Act (42 U.S.C. 7131), section 102(a) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 112(a)), and sections 301 of title 5, 113(b) and 162(b) of title 10, 503 of title 28, and 301(b) of title 31, United States Code; and
(iii) shall not be construed to impair or otherwise affect the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals.
(b) This order and amendments made by this order are intended only to improve the internal management of the Federal Government and are not intended to, and do not, create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 27, 2004.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:05 PM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Friday 27 June 2014
