United States National Security Council#Deputies Committee

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The immediate predecessor to the National Security Council was the National Intelligence Authority (NIA), which was established by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Letter of January 22, 1946, to oversee the Central Intelligence Group, the CIA's predecessor. The NIA was composed of the secretary of state, the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy, and the chief of staff to the commander in chief.

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The National Security Council was created in 1947 by the National Security Act. It was created because policymakers felt that the diplomacy of the State Department was no longer adequate to contain the Soviet Union in light of the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QHDkqb-myscC&pg=PA499|title=Encyclopedia of American foreign policy|edition=2nd|volume=2|location=New York|publisher=Scribner|year=2002|author=National Security Council|isbn=9780684806570 }} The intent was to ensure coordination and concurrence among the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and other instruments of national security policy such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), also created in the National Security Act. In 2004, the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was created, taking over the responsibilities previously held by the head of the CIA, the director of central intelligence, as a cabinet-level position to oversee and coordinate activities of the Intelligence Community{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-of-central-intelligence-as-leaders-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_15.htm|title=Directors of Central Intelligence as Leaders of the US Intelligence Community|author=Douglas F. Garthoff|year=2007|publisher=cia.gov|access-date=July 26, 2022|archive-date=April 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101356/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/directors-of-central-intelligence-as-leaders-of-the-u-s-intelligence-community/chapter_15.htm|url-status=dead}}

File:NationalSecurityCouncilMeeting.jpg, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, National Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, White House Counsel Greg Craig, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel]]

On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama merged the White House staff supporting the Homeland Security Council (HSC) and the National Security Council into one National Security Staff (NSS). The HSC and NSC each continue to exist by statute as bodies supporting the president.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/27homeland.html?ref=us |title=In Security Shuffle, White House Merges Staffs |author= Helene Cooper |newspaper=The New York Times |date= May 26, 2009 |access-date= March 15, 2017 |author-link=Helene Cooper }} The name of the staff organization was changed back to National Security Council Staff in 2014.{{Cite press release|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/02/10/nsc-staff-name-back-so-long-nss|title=NSC Staff, the Name Is Back! So Long, NSS| date=February 10, 2014| author= Caitlin Hayden |via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|access-date= March 15, 2017}}

The Directorate of Global Health Security and Biodefense was formed in 2016 under the Obama administration, disbanded in 2018 under the first Trump administration, and reinstated in January 2021 during the presidency of Joe Biden.

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On January 29, 2017, President Donald Trump restructured the Principals Committee (a subset of the full National Security Council), while at the same time altering the attendance of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and director of national intelligence.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/29/512295108/with-national-security-council-shakeup-steve-bannon-gets-a-seat-at-the-table|author= Merrit Kennedy| title=With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table| date=January 29, 2017 |newspaper=NPR| access-date= January 29, 2017 }}

According to "National Security Presidential Memorandum 2", the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and director of national intelligence were to only sit on the Principals Committee as and when matters pertaining to them arise, but will remain part of the full National Security Council.{{cite press release|title=Presidential Memorandum Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129061103/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and|archive-date=January 29, 2017|publisher = Office of the Press Secretary |access-date= January 31, 2017|language=en |date= January 31, 2017}}{{cite web|title=No Change to Chairman's Status as Senior Military Adviser, Officials Say|url=https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1064325/no-change-to-chairmans-status-as-senior-military-adviser-officials-say/| author= Jim Garamone| publisher=United States Department of Defense|access-date= January 31, 2017|language=en|date= January 31, 2017}} However, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus clarified the next day that they still are invited to attend meetings.{{cite news| author= Alan Yuhas |title=Trump chief of staff: defense officials not off NSC after Bannon move|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/trump-priebus-nsc-steve-bannon|newspaper = The Guardian|access-date=January 30, 2017|language=en|date= January 29, 2017}} With "National Security Presidential Memorandum 4" in April 2017, the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff "shall" attend Principals Committee meetings and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency was included as a regular attendee.[https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/nspm-4-organization-national-security-council-homeland-security-council-and-subcommittees-summary] Lawfare Blog NSPM-4: "Organization of the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and Subcommittees": A Summary The reorganization also placed the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development as a permanent member of the Deputies Committee,{{cite web|title=Maybe the Trump Administration Just Elevated Development Policy, or Maybe Not|url=https://www.cgdev.org/blog/maybe-trump-administration-just-elevated-development-policy-or-maybe-not|author= Scott Morris|publisher=Center for Global Development |date=February 7, 2017| access-date=March 15, 2017}} while the White House chief strategist was removed.{{ Cite news| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-05/bannon-removed-from-national-security-council-role-in-shakeup| author=Jennifer Jacobs | title = Bannon Loses National Security Council Role in Trump Shakeup| newspaper=Bloomberg.com | access-date=April 5, 2017 | date =April 5, 2017 | publisher=Bloomberg}}{{cite news|title=Steve Bannon loses National Security Council seat|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39508351|author= BBC|work=BBC News|date=April 6, 2017| access-date=April 6, 2017}}

The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947 (PL 235 – 61 Stat. 496; U.S.C. 402), amended by the National Security Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 579; 50 U.S.C. 401 et seq.). Later in 1949, as part of the Reorganization Plan, the council was placed in the Executive Office of the President.

The High Value Detainee Interrogation Group also reports to the NSC.{{cite web|url= https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elite-high-value-interrogation-unit-is-taking-its-first-painful-steps/ |title= Elite High Value Interrogation Unit Is Taking Its First Painful Steps| author=Ed Barnes| publisher= Fox News Channel|date= May 12, 2010|access-date= March 15, 2017 }}

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One of the tasks of the National Security Council is to determine and identify people, including United States citizens who are deemed to be threats to national security and add them to a "kill list".{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005 | work=Reuters | title=Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list" |author=Mark Hosenball |date=October 5, 2011 |access-date= March 26, 2017| author-link=Mark Hosenball }} In this case, no public record of this decision or any operation to kill the suspect will be made available. The panel's actions are justified by "two principal legal theories": They "were permitted by Congress when it authorized the use of military forces against militants in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001; and they are permitted under international law if a country is defending itself."

Homeland Security Advisor John O. Brennan, who helped codify targeted killing criteria by creating the Disposition Matrix database, has described the Obama Administration targeted killing policy by stating that "in order to ensure that our counterterrorism operations involving the use of lethal force are legal, ethical, and wise, President Obama has demanded that we hold ourselves to the highest possible standards and processes".{{cite speech |url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-efficacy-and-ethics-us-counterterrorism-strategy |title=The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy |author= John O. Brennan |author-link= John O. Brennan |institution= Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |date= April 30, 2012 |access-date= March 26, 2017 }}

Reuters reported that Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was on such a kill list and was killed accordingly.

On February 4, 2013, NBC published a leaked Department of Justice memo providing a summary of the rationale used to justify targeted killing of US citizens who are senior operational leaders of Al-Qa'ida or associated forces.{{cite report |url= http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf |title= Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen Who Is a Senior Operational Leader of Al-Qa'ida or An Associated Force |publisher= United States Department of Justice |access-date= February 5, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826075931/http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf |archive-date= August 26, 2014 }}

The National Security Council, {{as of|2021|lc=y}} and as per statute{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3021|title=50 U.S. Code § 3021 – National Security Council|website=LII / Legal Information Institute|language=en|access-date=January 15, 2018}} and National Security Memorandum–2,{{cite web | url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/04/memorandum-renewing-the-national-security-council-system/ | title=Memorandum on Renewing the National Security Council System | date=February 5, 2021 }} is chaired by the president. Its members are the vice president (statutory), the secretary of state (statutory), the secretary of the treasury (statutory), the secretary of defense (statutory), the secretary of energy (statutory), the assistant to the president for national security affairs (non-statutory), the assistant to the president and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (non-statutory), the attorney general (non-statutory), the secretary of homeland security (non-statutory), and the representative of the United States to the United Nations (non-statutory).{{Cite web|url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-04-06/pdf/2017-07064.pdf#page=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407150009/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-04-06/pdf/2017-07064.pdf |archive-date=April 7, 2017 |url-status=live|title=National Security Presidential Memorandum–4 of April 4, 2017}}

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the military advisor to the council, the director of national intelligence is the intelligence advisor, and the director of national drug control policy is the drug control policy advisor. The chief of staff to the president, White House counsel, and the assistant to the president for economic policy are also regularly invited to attend NSC meetings. The attorney general, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency are invited to attend meetings pertaining to their responsibilities. The heads of other executive departments and agencies, as well as other senior officials, are invited to attend meetings of the NSC when appropriate.{{cite web |title=50 U.S. Code § 3021 - National Security Council |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3021 |website=Legal Information Institute [LII] |publisher=Cornell Law School |access-date=July 26, 2021}}

The Principals Committee of the National Security Council is the Cabinet-level senior interagency forum for consideration of national security policy issues. The Principals Committee is convened and chaired by the national security advisor. The regular attendees of the Principals Committee are the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of defense, the attorney general, the secretary of energy, the secretary of homeland security, the White House chief of staff, the director of national intelligence, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the homeland security advisor, and the United States ambassador to the United Nations.

The White House counsel, the deputy counsel to the president for national security affairs, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the deputy national security advisor, the deputy national security advisor for strategy, the national security advisor to the vice president, and the NSC executive secretary may also attend all meetings of the Principals Committee. When considering international economic issues, the Principals Committee's regular attendees will include the secretary of commerce, the United States trade representative, and the assistant to the president for economic policy.[https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2017-07064.pdf] Federal Register National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-4)

The National Security Council Deputies Committee is the senior sub-Cabinet interagency forum for consideration of national security policy issues. The Deputies Committee is also responsible for reviewing and monitoring the interagency national security process including for establishing and directing the Policy Coordination Committees.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170129061103/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/28/presidential-memorandum-organization-national-security-council-and] White House Office of the Press Secretary Presidential Memorandum Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council The Deputies Committee is convened and chaired by the deputy national security advisor or the deputy homeland security advisor.

Regular members of the Deputies Committee are the deputy national security advisor for strategy, the deputy secretary of state, deputy secretary of the treasury, the deputy secretary of defense, the deputy attorney general, the deputy secretary of energy, the deputy secretary of homeland security, the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, the deputy director of national intelligence, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the national security advisor to the vice president, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Invitations to participate in or attend specific meetings are extended to deputy or under secretary level of executive departments and agencies and to other senior officials when relevant issues are discussed. The executive secretary and the deputy White House counsel also attend. The relevant senior director on the National Security Council staff is also invited to attend when relevant.

The Policy Coordination Committees of the National Security Council, established and directed by the Deputies Committee, are responsible for the management of the development and implementation of national security policies through interagency coordination. Policy Coordination Committees are the main day-to-day for interagency coordination of national security policy development, implementation and analysis in aide of the Deputies Committee and the Principals Committee. Policy Coordination Committees are chaired by senior directors on the National Security Council staff, or sometimes National Economic Council staff, with assistant secretary–level officials from the relevant executive department or agency acting as co-chairs.

The Directorate of Global Health Security and Biodefense was created by Barack Obama in 2016 in response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Its goal was "to prepare for the next disease outbreak and prevent it from becoming an epidemic or pandemic."{{cite news |last1=Benen |first1=Steve |author-link1=Steve Benen|title=Trump struggles to explain why he disbanded his global health team |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-struggles-explain-why-he-disbanded-his-global-health-team-n1153221 |access-date=March 14, 2020 |publisher=MSNBC |date=March 9, 2020}}Cameron, Beth, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it"], Washington Post, March 13, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2020. The directorate was disbanded when a May 2018 change in organizational structure by John Bolton, Trump's recently appointed head of the National Security Council, resulted in the effective elimination of the office then led by Rear Admiral Tim Ziemer, Sr. Director for Global Health Security and Biothreats. Remaining staff were moved to other NSC departments, prompting Ziemer's resignation, thus completing the elimination of the office.{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Lauren |title=Sudden Departure Of White House Global Health Security Head Has Experts Worried |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-ziemer-global-health-security-leaves_n_5af37dfbe4b0859d11d02290 |access-date=March 14, 2020 |date=May 10, 2018 |work=HuffPost}}Sun, Lena H., [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/ "Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly"], Washington Post, May 10, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2020.

The responsibilities that formerly belonged to the directorate, along with those of arms control and nonproliferation, and of weapons of mass destruction terrorism, were absorbed into a single new directorate, counterproliferation and biodefense, and assigned to Tim Morrison in July 2018 as director. Morrison characterized the consolidation as part of an overall NSC "reduction of force" and called it "specious" to say the office was "dissolved", describing the previous size of the organization as "bloat", and stating "That is why Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017."Morrison, Tim, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-house-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/ "No, the White House didn't 'dissolve' its pandemic response office. I was there"], Washington Post, March 16, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2020.Kessler, Glenn and Kelly, Meg. (March 20, 2020). "Was the White House office for global pandemics eliminated?". [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/20/was-white-house-office-global-pandemics-eliminated/ Washington Post website] Retrieved March 20, 2020. Trump defended the 2018 cuts, describing the financial motivation, when questioned in a February 2020 press conference, suggesting that people on a pandemic response team are unnecessary between pandemics, saying "Some of the people we cut, they haven't been used for many, many years." No source of information could be found to support the president's statement, likely because the team was created in 2016 and disbanded in 2018. He continued: "And rather than spending the money—and I'm a business person—I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them."{{cite web |last1=Brady |first1=James |title=Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Conference |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/ |access-date=March 17, 2020 |via=National Archives |work=whitehouse.gov |date=February 2, 2020}} The size of the team before cuts was estimated at 430 people, but the "thousands" referenced by the president also included reduction in the staff numbers of the CDC.{{cite web |last1=Palma |first1=Bethania |title=Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ |publisher=Snopes |access-date=March 14, 2020 |date=February 26, 2020}}

In January 2021, the directorate was reinstated by President Joe Biden, who appointed Elizabeth Cameron as Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense, a position she had previously held under the Obama administration and briefly under the Trump administration.{{Cite news|last=Crowley|first=Michael|date=January 8, 2021|title=Announcing National Security Council staff appointees, Biden restores the office for global health threats.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/announcing-national-security-council-staff-appointees-biden-restores-the-office-for-global-health-threats.html|url-status=live|access-date=January 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122161255/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/announcing-national-security-council-staff-appointees-biden-restores-the-office-for-global-health-threats.html|archive-date=January 22, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}

During his presidential transition, President-elect Joe Biden announced the creation of the position of U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, the occupant of which will be a member of the National Security Council.{{Cite web|author=Kate Sullivan|title=Biden prioritizes climate crisis by naming John Kerry special envoy|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/john-kerry-biden-climate-envoy/index.html|access-date=December 13, 2020|website=CNN|date=November 24, 2020}}

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