PUBLIC LAW 106-567—DEC. 27, 2000 114 STAT. 2857 archival value, including records and materials of extraordinary public interest. (2) To promote the fullest possible public access to a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of significant United States national security decisions and significant United States national security activities in order to— (A) support the oversight and legislative functions of Congress; (B) support the polic3nnaking role of the executive branch; (C) respond to the interest of the public in national security matters; and (D) promote reliable historical analysis and new avenues of historical study in national security matters. (3) To provide recommendations to the President for the identification, collection, and review for declassification of information of extraordinary public interest that does not undermine the national security of the United States, to be undertaken in accordance with a declassification program that has been established or may be established by the President by Executive order. (4) To advise the President, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and such other executive branch officials as the Board considers appropriate on policies deriving from the issuance by the President of Executive orders regarding the classification and declassification of national security information. (c) MEMBERSHIP.—(1) The Board shall be composed of nine individuals appointed from among citizens of the United States who are preeminent in the fields of history, national security, foreign policy, intelligence policy, social science, law, or archives, including individuals who have served in Congress or otherwise in the Federal Government or have otherwise engaged in research, scholarship, or publication in such fields on matters relating to the national security of the United States, of whom— (A) five shall be appointed by the President; President. (B) one shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; (C) one shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; (D) one shall be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; and (E) one shall be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives. (2)(A) Of the members initially appointed to the Board by the President— (i) three shall be appointed for a term of 4 years; (ii) one shall be appointed for a term of 3 years; and (iii) one shall be appointed for a term of 2 years. (B) The members initially appointed to the Board by the Speaker of the House of Representatives or by the majority leader of the Senate shall be appointed for a term of 3 years. (C) The members initially appointed to the Board by the minority leader of the House of Representatives or the Senate shall be appointed for a term of 2 years.
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