National security policy memorandum
As a category, NSPMs replace both the Presidential Policy Directives (PPDs) and the Presidential Study Directives (PSDs) of the Obama Administration. However, previously issued directives from prior administrations remain in effect unless rescinded or superseded.
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National Security Presidential Memorandum
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Space Policy Directives
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Space Policy Directive
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Sources and Resources
- Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines by Betsy Woodruff Swan, Politico, January 21, 2022 (re: NSPM 21)
- Renaming of the National and Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (pursuant to NSPM 34), Department of State, February 8, 2021
- Privacy Impact Assessment for the National Vetting Center (NVC) (pursuant to NSPM 9), Department of Homeland Security, December 11, 2018
- Plan to Implement the Presidential Memorandum [NSPM-9] on Optimizing the Use of Federal Government Information in Support of the National Vetting Enterprise (redacted), August 5, 2018
- Statement from the President on the National Biodefense Strategy and National Security Presidential Memorandum, The White House, September 18, 2018 (press briefing)
- White House Confirms It Has Relaxed Rules on U.S. Use of Cyberweapons by Dustin Volz, Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2018
- Trump, Seeking to Relax Rules on U.S. Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive [PPD 20] by Dustin Volz, Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2018
- Trump signed presidential directive ordering actions to pressure North Korea by Karen DeYoung, Ellen Nakashima and Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, September 30, 2017
- Trump Broadcasts His National Security Directives, Secrecy News, January 30, 2017
- National Security Presidential Memorandum 2--President Trump's NSC and HSC by John Bellinger, Lawfare, January 28, 2017
