[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 37 (Monday, September 17, 2007)]
[Page 1199]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assignment of Reporting Functions Relating to the 
Information Sharing Environment

September 8, 2007

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

Subject: Assignment of Reporting Functions Relating to the Information 
Sharing Environment

    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, the reporting functions of the President under subsections 
(h) and (j) of section 1016 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458), as amended by the 
Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110-53) (IRTPA), are hereby assigned to the Director of National 
Intelligence (Director). The Director shall consult the Secretaries of 
State, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, and the Attorney General in 
performing such functions.
    Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted by 
law, furnish to the Director information that the Director requests to 
perform such functions, in the format and on the schedule specified by 
the Director.
    The Director shall perform such functions in a manner consistent 
with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information 
the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, national 
security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, and the 
performance of the Executive's constitutional duties.
    Any reference in this memorandum to the provision of IRTPA 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 Director is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum 
in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:52 a.m., September 
11, 2007]

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on September 10, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
September 12.