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NSPMs are just internal memos - they are not laws!

What You Say

National Security Presidential Memoranda can bind agencies without the transparency of statutes or ordinary rulemaking. Internal is not the same as unimportant when the subject is security state priorities.

The Stab

Secret priority lists shape budgets and targeting. Call them memos if it helps you sleep.

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