Presidential Decision Directives

These links will take you to sources where you can find all of the Presidential Decision Directives existing prior to 9/11:

• http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/direct.htm
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/directives.html

The National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum for presidential consideration of foreign policy issues and national security matters. Pursuant to policy review directives, the NSC gathers facts, analysis and recommendations of appropriate Government agencies, conducts analyses, determines alternatives, and presents to the POTUS policy choices for decision. The president's decisions are announced by directives. They are directed to and affect the political entities (departments, agencies, commissions, boards, etc.) under Executive Branch control but bear no actual legal authority for mandating and implementing what we now refer to as Homeland Security activities at the state or lower levels.

1. Based on your individual research an analysis, be prepared to discuss what presidential decision directives (remember they have been referred to by many terms) were in place prior to 9/11 relevant to Homeland Security-type activities.
    
2. Secondly, be prepared to link pre-9/11 presidential decision directives to policies, strategies, programs, plans and activities (e.g., Presidential Decision Directive X directs this and Strategy Y fulfills that requirement).