Executive Order 13292

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Executive Order 13292 is an executive order issued by United States President George W. Bush on March 25 2003, entitled "Further Amendment to Executive Order 12958, as Amended, Classified National Security Information." The Executive Order modified the manner in which sensitive information was handled set out by President William J. Clinton's 1995 executive order. An extensive analysis of the changes from the previous executive order was compiled by the group Public Citizen.

Significance

The significance of this executive order was a subject that Vice President Dick Cheney discussed in a February 15, 2006 interview that was mostly focused on the hunting incident which had occurred a few days earlier. That interview included a few questions on a comment by Scooter Libby related to the Plame affair; one of those questions led to the following comment from Cheney:

:"There is an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously focuses first and foremost on the President, but also includes the Vice President."

Byron York of the National Review noted some of the changes that Cheney was referring to:

Throughout Executive Order 13292, there are changes to the original Clinton order which, in effect, give the vice president the power of the president in dealing with classified material....Executive Order 13292 is real evidence of real power in the vice president's office. Since the beginning of the administration, Dick Cheney has favored measures allowing the executive branch to keep more things secret. And in March of 2003, the president gave him the authority to do it.

External links

Further Amendment to Executive Order 12958, As Amended, Classified National Security Information, White House, March 25, 2003
Interview of the Vice President by Brit Hume, FOX News, a transcript from the White House website
The Little-Noticed Order That Gave Dick Cheney New Power, a February 2006 National Review article

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