Obama's NSC Will Get New Power
Directive Expands Makeup and Role Of Security Body
Karen DeYoung
Washington Post
February 8, 2009
President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues. …
The new structure, to be outlined in a presidential directive and a detailed implementation document by Jones, will expand the NSC’s reach far beyond the range of traditional foreign policy issues and turn it into a much more elastic body, with Cabinet and departmental seats at the table — historically occupied only by the secretaries of defense and state — determined on an issue-by-issue basis.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR2009020702076.html
