[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 158 (Thursday, August 15, 2013)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 158 / Thursday, August 15, 2013 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Memorandum of August 12, 2013
Reviewing Our Global Signals Intelligence
Collection and Communications Technologies
Memorandum for the Director of National Intelligence
The United States, like all nations, gathers
intelligence in order to protect its national interests
and to defend itself, its citizens, and its partners
and allies from threats to our security. The United
States cooperates closely with many countries on
intelligence matters and these intelligence
relationships have helped to ensure our common
security.
Recent years have brought unprecedented and rapid
advancements in communications technologies,
particularly with respect to global telecommunications.
These technological advances have brought with them
both great opportunities and significant risks for our
Intelligence Community: opportunity in the form of
enhanced technical capabilities that can more precisely
and readily identify threats to our security, and risks
in the form of insider and cyber threats.
I believe it is important to take stock of how these
technological advances alter the environment in which
we conduct our intelligence mission. To this end, by
the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, I am directing you to establish a Review Group
on Intelligence and Communications Technologies (Review
Group).
The Review Group will assess whether, in light of
advancements in communications technologies, the United
States employs its technical collection capabilities in
a manner that optimally protects our national security
and advances our foreign policy while appropriately
accounting for other policy considerations, such as the
risk of unauthorized disclosure and our need to
maintain the public trust. Within 60 days of its
establishment, the Review Group will brief their
interim findings to me through the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI), and the Review Group will provide a
final report and recommendations to me through the DNI
no later than December 15, 2013.
You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, August 12, 2013.
[FR Doc. 2013-19960
Filed 8-14-13; 8:45 am]
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