Editing National security directive (section)

== Secrecy ==
Regarding the secrecy of presidential directives, [[Steven Aftergood]] of the [[Federation of American Scientists#Government Secrecy|Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy]] stated in February 2008 that:

<blockquote>Of the 54 National Security Presidential Directives issued by the (George W.) Bush Administration to date, the titles of only about half have been publicly identified.  There is descriptive material or actual text in the public domain for only about a third.  In other words, there are dozens of undisclosed Presidential directives that define U.S. national security policy and task government agencies, but whose substance is unknown either to the public or, as a rule, to Congress.<ref>{{cite web
|title=The next president should open up the Bush Administration's record
|url=http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00321
|last=Aftergood
|first=Steven
|publisher=Neiman Watchdog; Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
|date=2008-02-07
|access-date=2008-02-12}}</ref>
</blockquote>

However, in an unprecedented development, the [[first presidency of Donald Trump|first Trump administration]] ordered their national security directives to be published in the ''[[Federal Register]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Aftergood|first1=Steven|title=Trump Broadcasts His National Security Directives|url=https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2017/01/trump-nspm/|access-date=10 October 2017|work=Secrecy News, [[Federation of American Scientists]]|date=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Aftergood|first1=Steven|title=Still No Classified Trump Presidential Directives|url=https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2017/07/no-classified-nspms/|work=Secrecy News, [[Federation of American Scientists]]|date=5 July 2017|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>