Here is some background concerning Presidential Decision Directives:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/direct.htmhttp://www.fas.org/irp/crs/98-611.pdfHere is a fact sheet summarizing Clinton's last PDD:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/pdd-75.htmAn excerpt:
President Clinton signed a Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) entitled "U.S. Counterintelligence Effectiveness – Counterintelligence for the 21st Century." The PDD outlines specific steps that will enable the U.S. counterintelligence (CI) community to better fulfill its mission of identifying, understanding, prioritizing and counteracting the intelligence threats faced by the United States. The system will be predictive, proactive and will provide integrated oversight of counterintelligence issues across the national security agencies.
Specifically, the PDD directs the following structure be established to continue the task of improving U.S. counterintelligence effectiveness:
Counterintelligence Board of Directors
* A National Counterintelligence Board of Directors, chaired by the Director, FBI and composed of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and a senior representative of the Department of Justice is hereby established.
* The Board, chaired by the Director of the FBI, will operate by consensus, and will select, oversee and evaluate the National Counterintelligence Executive (CI Executive) and will promulgate the mission, role and responsibilities of the CI Executive.
* The Board will approve the National Counterintelligence Strategy drawn from the annual National Threat Identification and Prioritization Assessment, ensuring the integration of government and private sector interests.
* The Board working with Congress, OMB, and other Executive Branch agencies will ensure the CI Executive has adequate resources to carry out his/her responsibilities and duties.If you read this entire directive, you'll see that it was specifically written to address all the problems of "bad communication" between the FBI, CIA, DOD and DOJ that supposedly allowed terra'ists to attack the United States on 9/11 with such resounding success.
This directive (PDD/NSC-75) was issued on 01/05/2001.
On 2/13/2001, President G W Bush issued a directive that specifically countermanded PDD/NSC-75:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-1.htmManagement of the development and implementation of national security policies by multiple agencies of the United States Government shall usually be accomplished by the NSC Policy Coordination Committees (NSC/PCCs). The NSC/PCCs shall be the main day-to-day fora for interagency coordination of national security policy. They shall provide policy analysis for consideration by the more senior committees of the NSC system and ensure timely responses to decisions made by the President. Each NSC/PCC shall include representatives from the executive departments, offices, and agencies represented in the NSC/DC. {Note that the responsibilities that were distinctly codified just one month before are now nebulously generalized.}
Eleven NSC/PCCs are hereby also established for the following functional topics, each to be chaired by a person of Under Secretary or Assistant Secretary rank designated by the indicated authority:
...
Counter-Terrorism and National Preparedness (by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs {RICE}
);
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Proliferation, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense (by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs {RICE}
);
Intelligence and Counterintelligence (by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs {RICE}
); and
Records Access and Information Security (by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs {RICE}
).
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Each NSC/PCC shall also have an Executive Secretary from the staff of the NSC, to be designated by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs {RICE}
. The Executive Secretary {UNKNOWN}
shall assist the Chairman in scheduling the meetings of the NSC/PCC, determining the agenda, recording the actions taken and tasks assigned, and ensuring timely responses to the central policymaking committees of the NSC system. The Chairman of each NSC/PCC, in consultation with the Executive Secretary, may invite representatives of other executive departments and agencies to attend meetings of the NSC/PCC where appropriate. {Note that the responsibilities that were distinctly codified just one month before are now nebulously generalized.}
The existing system of Interagency Working Groups is abolished.
* The oversight of ongoing operations assigned in PDD/NSC-56 to Executive Committees of the Deputies Committee will be performed by the appropriate regional NSC/PCCs, which may create subordinate working groups to provide coordination for ongoing operations.
* The Counter-Terrorism Security Group, Critical Infrastructure Coordination Group, Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparedness, Consequences Management and Protection Group, and the interagency working group on Enduring Constitutional Government are reconstituted as various forms of the NSC/PCC on Counter-Terrorism and National Preparedness.
* The duties assigned in PDD/NSC-75 to the National Counterintelligence Policy Group will be performed in the NSC/PCC on Intelligence and Counterintelligence, meeting with appropriate attendees.
* The duties assigned to the Security Policy Board and other entities established in PDD/NSC-29 will be transferred to various NSC/PCCs, depending on the particular security problem being addressed.
* The duties assigned in PDD/NSC-41 to the Standing Committee on Nonproliferation will be transferred to the PCC on Proliferation, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense.
* The duties assigned in PDD/NSC-35 to the Interagency Working Group for Intelligence Priorities will be transferred to the PCC on Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
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