Congress's function is to make laws. It's executive branches responsibility to enforce laws. So to enforce those laws, you have things like executive orders, like executive order, E 12, triple three on United States intelligence activities. You have all these orders, maybe a national security directive and NSD that comes out. Then you have, DOD will put out their DOD directive based upon an executive order.
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The CIA will put out what they used to call desks, their old DCI directives, um, for kind of enforcing that executive order. And so eventually get all the way down to the subordinate levels of light, for example, the army where the army will say, okay, here's DOD directive 5240.1, we're kind of up with our army regulation 3d 112 3d 110, right. On how we the army conducts intelligence activities. And then you have all the way down to the unit level where they can't really write policy.
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