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Memorandum of March 8, 2011 

Designation of Officers of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence To Act as Director of National Intelligence 

Memorandum for the Director of National Intelligence 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform 

Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that: 

Section 1. Subject to the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of this memorandum, 

the officers of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence named 

in section 2, in the order listed, shall act as and perform the functions 

and duties of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), during any period 

in which the DNI and the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence 

have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions 

and duties of the DNI, until such time as the DNI or the Principal Deputy 

Director of National Intelligence is able to perform the functions and duties 

of the DNI. 

Sec. 2. Order of Succession. 

(a) Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence Integration; 

(b) Director of the National Counterterrorism Center; and 

(c) National Counterintelligence Executive. 

Sec. 3. National Security Act of 1947. This memorandum shall not supersede 

the authority of the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence to 

act for, and exercise the powers of, the DNI during the absence or disability 

of the DNI or during a vacancy in the position of the DNI (National Security 

Act of 1947, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 403–3a). 

Sec. 4. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in an office listed 

in section 2 of this memorandum in an acting capacity shall act as the 

DNI pursuant to this memorandum. 

(b) No individual listed in section 1 of this memorandum shall act as 

the DNI unless that individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the 

Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. 

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this memorandum, the President 

retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this memorandum in designating an acting DNI. 

(d) In the event that the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center 

acts as and performs the functions and duties of the DNI pursuant to section 

1 of this memorandum, that individual shall not simultaneously serve as 

Director of the National Counterterrorism Center during that time, in accordance with 50 U.S.C. 404o(b)(2). 

Sec. 5. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of October 3, 2008 (Designation of Officers of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence 

to Act as Director of National Intelligence), is hereby revoked. 

Sec. 6. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any 

right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity 

by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, 

its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 


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Sec. 7. You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in 

the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, March 8, 2011 

[FR Doc. 2011–5904 

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