Federal Register: December 23, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 246)
Presidential Documents               
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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


                        Presidential Documents 




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Title 3--
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

         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.