STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89T00234R000300420002-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 29, 1988
• Content Type: MISC

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W THE WHITE HOUSE W
Offict of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release September 29, 1988
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I have today signed H.R. 4387, the "Intelligence
Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989." The Act authorizes
appropriations to pay for the intelligence and intelligence-
related activities of the United States Government during
the coming fiscal year. The legislation will strengthen
United States intelligence capabilities.
As the Congress has recognized, secrecy is essential
to success in the intelligence activities upon which the
Nation's security depends. To maintain that essential
secrecy, the programs and funding levels for which the Act
provides are classified. The Act authorizes appropriations at
approximately the level I requested in my Fiscal Year 1989
budget.
Two provisions of the Act raise constitutional concerns.
Section 104 of the Act prohibits the use during
Fiscal Year 1989 of funds available to the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, or any other
agency or entity of the United States to provide assistance to
the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance, except as specifically
provided by law. Previous such restrictions in annual
intelligence authorization acts applied to Federal entities
only if they were involved in intelligence activities. I
have signed the Act with the understanding that the extension
of the restriction to all entities of the United States
Government is not intended to, and does not, apply in a manner
and to an extent that would conflict with my constitutional
authority and duty to conduct the foreign relations of the
United States.
Section 504 of the Act enacts a new Section 17 of the
Central Intelligence Agency Act. of 1949 to require reports to
the intelligence committees of the Congress concerning
activities of the Inspector General of the Central
Intelligence Agency. The provision purports to require
inclusion of information in certain reports to the committees
that would disclose Inspector General recommendations to the
Director of Central Intelligence and opposing views within the
Executive branch. Such a requirement would conflict with the
constitutional protection afforded the integrity and
confidentiality of the internal deliberations of the Executive
branch. It would, however, be severable from the remainder of
Section 17, which can'be properly executed.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 29, 1988.
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