LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick

Section 1. Section 1-103 of Executive Order 12139 of May 23, 1979, asamended, is further amended by:

(a) striking "(7)" each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof"(6)";

(b) adding after subsection (h) "(i) Deputy Director of the Federal Bureauof Investigation."; and

(c) by adding after the sentence that begins "None of the above officials. . .", a new sentence to read "The requirement of the preceding sentencethat the named official must be appointed by the President with the adviceand consent of the Senate does not apply to the Deputy Director of theFederal Bureau of Investigation."

Sec. 2. Section 3 of Executive Order 12949 of February 9, 1995, asamended, is further amended by:

(a) striking "(7)" each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof"(6)";

(b) striking "and" at the end of subsection (g);

(c) striking the period at the end of subsection (h) and inserting in lieuthereof "; and";

(d) adding after subsection (h) "(i) Deputy Director of the Federal Bureauof Investigation."; and

(e) by adding after the sentence that begins "None of the above officials. . .", a new sentence to read "The requirement of the preceding sentencethat the named official must be appointed by the President with the adviceand consent of the Senate does not apply to the Deputy Director of theFederal Bureau of Investigation."

Sec. 3. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right orbenefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by anyparty against the United States, its agencies, instrumentalities, orentities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

GEORGE W. BUSH