In his first national security directive, President Bush has abolished his predecessor's system of National Security Council working groups and replaced them with eleven committees that will oversee key policy areas for the new administration. National security presidential directive 1, which is unclassified, has not been released by the White House. Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, obtained a copy and provided it to InsideDefense.com . According to Aftergood, the document "lays out...
