Amend the executive order governing intelligence rather than reopen the law
What the document says“Executive Order 12333 should be amended to take account of the changing landscape of threats and improve the functional aspects of America’s intelligence enterprise.”
The chapter says that although the 2004 intelligence reform act has flaws, it is impossible to know what would emerge if Congress reopened it, so seeking a legislative solution might carry more risks than benefits. It asks instead that the President amend Executive Order 12333, clarifying the Director of National Intelligence's budget and personnel authority and the roles of the various cyber missions.
What the document actually says“Executive Order 12333 should be amended to take account of the changing landscape of threats and improve the functional aspects of America’s intelligence enterprise.”
Change the order that governs spying. Update it for the threats we face now.
One order from 1981 sets the rules for spying. The book says Congress should not rewrite the law. It says that is too risky. It says the president should change the order instead.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed here comes close. No candidate amends Executive Order 12333, and no document indexed on this site mentions it. The nearest candidates, the two short laws extending title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, are acts of Congress amending a statute, which is the route the chapter says carries more risk than benefit. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.