[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 246 (Friday, December 23, 2005)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 76375-76376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-24507]



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Part IV





The President





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Memorandum of December 20, 2005--Designation of Officers of the Office 
of the Director of National Intelligence To Act as Director of National 
Intelligence
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                Memorandum of December 20, 2005

                
Designation of Officers of the Office of the 
                Director of National Intelligence To Act as Director of 
                National Intelligence

                Memorandum for the Director of National Intelligence

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and laws of the United States of America, 
                including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 
                U.S.C. 3345, et seq., it is hereby ordered that:

                    Section 1. Subject to the provisions of sections 3 
                and 4 of this memorandum, the officers of the Office of 
                the Director of National Intelligence named in section 
                2, in the order listed, shall act as and perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of the Director of 
                National Intelligence (DNI), during any period in which 
                the DNI and the Principal Deputy Director of National 
                Intelligence have died, resigned, or otherwise become 
                unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
                office of the DNI, until such time as at least one of 
                the officers listed in this section is able to perform 
                the functions and duties of the DNI.
                    Sec. 2. Order of Succession.

  (a) Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Management;

  (b) Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection;

  (c) Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis;

  (d) Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Customer Outcomes;

  (e) Chief of Staff, Office of the Director of National Intelligence;

  (f) General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and

  (g) Chief Information Officer, Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence.

                    Sec. 3. National Security Act of 1947. This 
                memorandum shall not supercede the authority of the 
                Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence to 
                act for, and exercise the powers of, the Director of 
                National Intelligence during the absence or disability 
                of the Director of National Intelligence or during a 
                vacancy in the position of Director of National 
                Intelligence, (National Security Act of 1947, as 
                amended, 50 U.S.C. 403-3a).
                    Sec. 4. Exceptions.

  (a) No individual who is serving in an office listed in section 2 in an 
acting capacity shall act as the DNI pursuant to this section.

  (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this memorandum, the President 
retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this 
memorandum in designating an acting DNI.

                    Sec. 5. Publication.

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                You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, December 20, 2005.

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