
EXECUTIVE ORDER 13526: DISCLOSURE DOUBLE-SPEAK Executive Order 13526 was issued on December 29, 2009 by United States President Barack Obama . [1] It is one of a series of executive orders from US Presidents outlining how classified information should be handled. It revokes and replaces the previous Executive Orders in effect for this, which were EO 12958 (text) and EO 13292 (text) . As a component of the Obama Administration's initiative to improve transparency and open-access to the Federal Government and the information it produces formally introduced upon taking office in late January 2009 [2] and as a result of an agency-wide review and recommendation process ordered in May of that same year, [3] the issuance of EO 13526 was ultimately prompted by several factors.One factor was the large backlog of documents scheduled to be automatically declassified on December 31, 2009 and how to deal with that reality. [4] Another factor was delivering on a campaign ...