Powers of the President during crisesSmith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm)
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Powers of the President during crises
Smith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm)
Constitutional history -- United States; Executive power -- United States
The Export Control Act of 1949 gave the President power to prohibit
or curtail the export of technical data.[489] Also pertinent is the
stipulation in an August 1953 statute permitting the government to lend
certain vessels to Italy, which prohibited the transmission to Italy of
information, plans, advise, material, documents, blueprints, or other
papers bearing a secret or top secret classification.[490]
In 1951 legislation was enacted prohibiting disclosure of classified
information. It is unlawful knowingly and willingly to communicate,
furnish or transmit to an unauthorized person the following categories
of classified information: (1) codes, cipher or the cryptographic
system of the United States or any foreign government; (2) the
design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device,
apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the
United States or any government for cryptographic or communication
intelligence purposes; (3) the communication intelligence activities
of the United States or any foreign government; or (4) obtained by
the processes of communication intelligence from the communications
of any foreign government knowing the same to have been obtained
by such processes.[491] Violators of this law can be fined up to
$10,000, be imprisoned for ten years, or suffer the imposition of both
penalties.[492]
The Communist Organization Registration Act of July 1954 requires
organizations found by the Subversive Activities Control Board to
be Communist-action or Communist-front organizations to provide the
Attorney General a listing of all printing presses and machines.[493]
The list of different kinds of presses is very extensive.[494]
_Censorship of Communications Media_: The War Powers Act of December
1941 specifically empowered the President to establish censorship of
communications between the United States and foreign countries. During
the existence of the war, the President, at his discretion, established
rules and regulations for the censorship of communications by mail,
cable, radio, or other means of transmission passing between the United
States and any foreign country. The authority to prescribe the rule by
which censorship would be applied, extended to communications carried
by any vessel or other means of transportation touching at any port,
place, or territory of the United States and bound to or from any
foreign country.[495]
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