Order a 60-day review of all covert action findings
What the document says“the President should task the NSC’s Senior”
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”
The president should give this job to a senior White House official.
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.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed here comes close. No candidate concerns covert action, and no executive order, memorandum, notice or determination indexed on this site mentions covert action findings. A review of the kind the chapter asks for would be run inside the National Security Council and would not normally be published, so its absence from these records is not evidence either way. 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.