Executive Order 13292

Citation
The White House, TExecutive Order 13292: Further Amendment to Executive Order 12958, as amended, Classified National Security Information (Mar. 25, 2003).

Overview
This Executive Order 13292 on classification amended Executive Order 12958. It changed section 1.5 of the prior Executive Order, which had permitted [[classification of "scientific, technological, or economic matters relating to the national security" by adding a new clause, which permitted classification of "scientific, technological, or economic matters relating to the national security, which includes defense against transnational terrorism." .20	The amendment also added a new category of information which may be classified, that is information that concerns “weapons of mass destruction” (Sec. 1.4 (h)). The exemption for basic scientific research not clearly related to national security remains (renumbered section 1.7).