whitehouse.gov finally updated the executive orders & memos for the ones most recently discussed over the weekend. Rice Prebus was out discussing the specifics but they were not available at the time for review:
The DNI and chair of JCS
are excluded from regular Primary Comittee attendance:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pres...um-organization-national-security-council-and
The PC shall have as its regular attendees the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, the Assistant to the President and Chief Strategist, the National Security Advisor, and the Homeland Security Advisor.
The Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall attend where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed. The Counsel to the President, the Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may attend all PC meetings.
The immigration ban:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pres...-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states
It's kinda ironic that this is the stated purpose:
Section 1. Purpose
. The visa-issuance process plays a crucial role in detecting individuals with terrorist ties and stopping them from entering the United States. Perhaps in no instance was that more apparent than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when State Department policy prevented consular officers from properly scrutinizing the visa applications of several of the 19 foreign nationals who went on to murder nearly 3,000 Americans. And while the visa-issuance process was reviewed and amended after the September 11 attacks to better detect would-be terrorists from receiving visas, these measures did not stop attacks by foreign nationals who were admitted to the United States.
(.....but we're
not going to ban residents of the country that those attackers actually came from.)
I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for 90 days from the date of this order (excluding those foreign nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-4 visas).
Prebus mentioned that the order specifically excludes green card holders....which is sorta true since green card holders are not considered foreign nationals/aliens but lawful permanent residents of the United States. He went on to say that green card holders traveling from these banned nations were being detained or not permitted to travel to the U.S. due to agent's 'discretionary' leeway. Highly troubling though considering the number of instances where GC holders were detained or not permitted to travel to the U.S. How this has all shaken out in practice is looking more and more to be a religious exclusion in practice.
