Which Executive Order established the SecEA and designated the DNI as the SecEA?

Which Executive Order established the SecEA and designated the DNI as the SecEA?

• A. E.O. 12968
• B. E.O. 13467
• C. E.O. 12345
• D. E.O. 13500

Answer: (B)

Executive Order 13467, issued in 2008, created the Security Executive Agent (SecEA) role and designated the Director of National Intelligence as the SecEA. This sets up a single, cross-agency authority to coordinate security policy and implementation across the Intelligence Community, ensuring consistent standards for protecting national security information, handling personnel security, and enabling information sharing. The move reflected a push to tighten IC governance after 9/11 by giving the DNI overarching responsibility for security programs across agencies. The other orders address different topics or older frameworks and do not appoint the DNI as the SecEA, so they don’t fit the description.

Executive Order 13467, issued in 2008, created the Security Executive Agent (SecEA) role and designated the Director of National Intelligence as the SecEA. This sets up a single, cross-agency authority to coordinate security policy and implementation across the Intelligence Community, ensuring consistent standards for protecting national security information, handling personnel security, and enabling information sharing. The move reflected a push to tighten IC governance after 9/11 by giving the DNI overarching responsibility for security programs across agencies. The other orders address different topics or older frameworks and do not appoint the DNI as the SecEA, so they don’t fit the description.