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Executive orders are issued to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself. [1] Presidential memoranda are closely related, and have the force of law on the Executive Branch, but are generally considered less prestigious.
Executive Order 13526 was issued on December 29, 2009, by United States President Barack Obama. [1] It is one of a series of executive orders from US Presidents outlining how classified information should be handled. It revokes and replaces the previous Executive Orders in effect for this, which were EO 12958 and EO 13292.
Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act. The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act (CFPDA), initially called the Countering Information Warfare Act, is a bipartisan law of the United States Congress that establishes an interagency center within the U.S. Department of State to coordinate and synchronize counterpropaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government. [1]
A 2013 amendment relaxed bans on domestic access to information intended for foreign audiences, but restrictions remain.
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United States.
The current numbering system for executive orders was established by the U.S. State Department in 1907, when all of the orders in the department's archives were assigned chronological numbers. The first executive order to be assigned a number was Executive Order 1 , signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, but hundreds of unnumbered orders had been ...
Republicans were famously critical of President Obama's use of executive orders, often referring to him as an "emperor" who used the tool to implement an agenda of "ideology," but have championed ...
United States presidents issue presidential memoranda, which are similar to executive orders and have the force of law on the Executive Branch, but are generally considered less prestigious. Presidential memoranda do not have an established process for issuance or publication; unlike executive orders, they are not numbered. [1]