[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 6843-6844]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01717]


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                Memorandum of January 19, 2021

                
Declassification of Certain Materials Related to 
                the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation

                Memorandum for the Attorney General[,] the Director of 
                National Intelligence[, and] the Director of the 
                Central Intelligence Agency

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, I hereby direct the following:

                Section 1. Declassification and Release. At my request, 
                on December 30, 2020, the Department of Justice 
                provided the White House with a binder of materials 
                related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 
                Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the 
                documents in the binder have remained classified and 
                have not been released to the Congress or the public. I 
                requested the documents so that a declassification 
                review could be performed and so I could determine to 
                what extent materials in the binder should be released 
                in unclassified form.

                I determined that the materials in that binder should 
                be declassified to the maximum extent possible. In 
                response, and as part of the iterative process of the 
                declassification review, under a cover letter dated 
                January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
                noted its continuing objection to any further 
                declassification of the materials in the binder and 
                also, on the basis of a review that included 
                Intelligence Community equities, identified the 
                passages that it believed it was most crucial to keep 
                from public disclosure. I have determined to accept the 
                redactions proposed for continued classification by the 
                FBI in that January 17 submission.

                I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the 
                binder. This is my final determination under the 
                declassification review and I have directed the 
                Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed 
                in the FBI's January 17 submission and return to the 
                White House an appropriately redacted copy.

                My decision to declassify materials within the binder 
                is subject to the limits identified above and does not 
                extend to materials that must be protected from 
                disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign 
                Intelligence Surveillance Court and does not require 
                the disclosure of certain personally identifiable 
                information or any other materials that must be 
                protected from disclosure under applicable law. 
                Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has 
                conducted an appropriate review to ensure that 
                materials provided in the binder may be disclosed by 
                the White House in accordance with applicable law.

                Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this 
                memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise 
                affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent 
                with applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does 
                not, create any right or benefit, substantive or 
                procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by

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                any party against the United States, its departments, 
                agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
                agents, or any other person.
                    (d) The Attorney General is authorized and directed 
                to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 19, 2021

[FR Doc. 2021-01717
Filed 1-22-21; 8:45 am]
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