[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 16 (Monday, April 25, 2005)]
[Pages 655-656]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assignment of Reporting Functions Under the Intelligence 
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004

April 21, 2005

Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Director of National Intelligence, the Attorney General, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security

Subject: Assignment of Reporting Functions under the Intelligence Reform 
and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
laws of the United States, including section 301 of title 3, United 
States Code:

(1)         The reporting functions of the President under sections 
            4026(a)(4)(A), 4026(c)(2), 7104(e)(4)(A), 7202(d), 
            7204(c)(1)-(2), and 7119(a) of the Intelligence Reform and 
            Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458, 118 
            Stat. 3638) (the ``Act'') are hereby assigned to the 
            Secretary of State.

            The reporting function under section 7202(d) of the Act on 
            the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center shall be 
            coordinated with the Attorney General and the Secretary of 
            Homeland Security.

            Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent 
            permitted by law, furnish to the Secretary of State 
            information the Secretary requests to perform such 
            functions, in the format and on the schedule specified by 
            the Secretary.


(2)         The reporting function of the President under section 
            7104(i) of the Act is hereby assigned to the Secretary of 
            Defense.

            Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent 
            permitted by law, furnish to the Secretary of Defense 
            information the Secretary requests to perform such 
            functions, in the format and on the schedule specified by 
            the Secretary.


(3)         The reporting functions under sections 1022 and 1094 of the 
            Act are hereby assigned to the Director of National 
            Intelligence.

            Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent 
            permitted by law, furnish to the Director of National 
            Intelligence information the Director requests to perform 
            such functions, in the format and on the schedule specified 
            by the Director.


    The Secretaries of State and Defense, and the Director of National 
Intelligence shall perform such functions in a manner consistent with 
the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the 
disclosure

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of which could impair foreign relations, national security, the 
deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the 
Executive's constitutional duties.
    Any reference in this memorandum to the provision of any Act shall 
be deemed to include references to any hereafter-enacted provision of 
law that is the same or substantially the same as such provision.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this 
memorandum in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush