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

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 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