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Order a 60-day review of all covert action findings

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 7, p. 211. Written by Dustin J. Carmack.

Order a 60-day review of all covert action findings

The document says “shouldWho acts: President, NSCHow: internal managementp. 211 in the PDF
What the document says

“the President should task the NSC’s Senior”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 211

The full passage asks that immediately after inauguration the President task the National Security Council's Senior Director for Intelligence Programs with a 60-day review of current covert action findings and their effectiveness, evaluating new covert actions that may be needed, conducted independently of the agencies responsible. The chapter says the review should identify which agency is best equipped for each objective, and that careful thought should be given to how effectiveness is measured, to guard against covert action being used with little scrutiny in ways inconsistent with overt policy.

What the document actually says

“the President should task the NSC’s Senior”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 211
That sentence, in plain words

The president should give this job to a senior White House official.

What this is about

Covert action is secret work approved by the president. The book says all of it should be reviewed. The review would take 60 days. It would be done by people outside the agencies involved.

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