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RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Courtney C. Crouch ( CN=Courtney C. Crouch/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:29-DEC-1998 09:33:54.00
SUBJECT: Redlines
TO: Sherman A. Williams ( CN=Sherman A. Williams/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Eli Joseph asked me to check with you to see if any more of the redlines
he requested were ready yet.
Also, I have a question, does the Executive Clerk's office deal with
Executive Orders? I'm trying to find out some information about EO 13107,
but I don't know that it was ever issued. Thanks.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 3-MAR-1999 19:09:11.00
SUBJECT: Executive Order 13107
TO: Robert G. Damus ( CN=Robert G. Damus/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
We are receiving several calls from Members of Congress in reference to
Exec. order 13107. Has your office prepared talking points on this?
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 4-MAR-1999 09:34:19.00
SUBJECT: Re: Executive Order 13107
TO: Robert G. Damus ( CN=Robert G. Damus/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Is it possible to get a brief description or background on this exec.
order?
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Robert G. Damus ( CN=Robert G. Damus/OU=OMB/O=EOP [ OMB ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 4-MAR-1999 09:31:01.00
SUBJECT: Re: Executive Order 13107
TO: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
No -- we have not prepared any talking points.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Robert G. Damus ( CN=Robert G. Damus/OU=OMB/O=EOP [ OMB 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 4-MAR-1999 09:35:30.00
SUBJECT: Re: Executive Order 13107
TO: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Yes -- we'll get it to you.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [WHO])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 4-MAR-1999 09:46:49.00
SUBJECT: Re: Executive Order 13107
TO: Robert G. Damus ( CN=Robert G. Damus/OU=OMB/O=EOP @ EOP [ OMB ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Thanks
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: "Thinnes, Billy" ( "Thinnes, Billy" [ UNKNOWN ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 5-MAR-1999 15:00:08.00
SUBJECT: you already know what this is about, and you are cringing as you open this message
TO: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
hey Jade:
I'm gonna keep harassing you about Executive Order 13107 because more and
more paranoid arch right wing nutcases in our District keep writing me
about
it. If you could get me some official info on that order, it would be much
appreciated and eliminate a large portion of mail for me. If I could get
that by Monday, well, I would be damn near estatic I'll be in Puerto
Rico,
starting tomorrow, on a little junket, so I'll be sure to think of you
toiling away while I'm toiling on the beach ;) take it easy, sir, and
much thanks for your time
Billy
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: "Thinnes, Billy" ("Thinnes, Billy" [ UNKNOWN 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 8-MAR-1999 14:50:38.00
SUBJECT: RE: you already know what this is about, and you are cringing as you open this message
TO: Jade L Riley ( CN=Jade L Riley/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
hey Jade:
Just got back from the Shining Star of the Carribean, and am getting my
affairs in order for the week any news on the executive order front?
Original Message
From: Thinnes, Billy
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 6:56 PM
To: '[email protected].
Subject: you already know what this is about, and you are cringing as
you open this message
hey Jade:
I'm gonna keep harassing you about Executive Order 13107 because more and
more paranoid arch right wing nutcases in our District keep writing me
about
it. If you could get me some official info on that order, it would be much
appreciated and eliminate a large portion of mail for me. If I could get
that by Monday, well, I would be damn near estatic I'll be in Puerto
Rico,
starting tomorrow, on a little junket, so I'll be sure to think of you
toiling away while I'm toiling on the beach ;) take it easy, sir, and
much thanks for your time
Billy
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: David E. Kalbaugh ( CN=David E. Kalbaugh/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME:12-APR-1999 14:43:51.00
SUBJECT: Re: Red Line Request
TO: Carolyn T. Wu ( CN=Carolyn T. Wu/OU=WHO/O=EOP @ EOP [ WHO 1)
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
I swear that I'm not trying to make this difficult
but E.O. 13107
is an executive order and not a bill. It's entitled "Implementation of
Human Rights Treaties". Is this what you want?
If so, please know that ceremonial copies of executive orders (they're
called blue lines in this case) are rarely made (unlike red lines of bills
which are made on a regular basis). There would have to be a special
printing of these done. Might a clean press release copy do?
But if blue lines are what Mr. Podesta wants, of course we will do it ASAP.
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: [email protected] (J. Brent Walker, Baptist Joint Committee) ( [email protected] (J.
Brent Walker, Baptist Joint Committee) [ UNKNOWN ])
CREATION DATE/TIME: 4-MAY-1999 10:30:10.00
SUBJECT: Fwd: Executive Orders
TO: Maureen T. Shea ( CN=Maureen T. Shea/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Maureen, this guy is a friend. Have you heard this stuff?
On Tue, May 4, 1999, 1:27:00 PM GMT Jim Wilson wrote:
BJCPA Friends,
I received this e-mail and personally believe it to be in the hoax
category.
What is you read on it?
Jim Wilson
> "President Clinton recently signed executive order (E) 13107,
>Implementation of Human Rights Treaties. The new EO requires federal,
>state and local governments to comply immediately with all United Nations
>Treaties, whether or not those treaties have been confirmed by the U.S.
>Senate as required by the Constitution. One of these treaties, the UN
>Treaty of Genocide, says that persuading someone to change his or her
>religion is a hate crime punishable by international law. The new EO
>13107 is expected to be used strongly by the newly established Office of
>Religious Persecution Monitoring to arrest and imprison Christian
>missionaries and witnesses anywhere in the world who preach Jesus
>only. From now on, this will be considered a hate crime - genocide."
> (News-of-Interest)
Jim Wilson
Carson-Newman College
Director of Campus Ministries Box 71913, Jefferson City, TN 37760
Phone: 423-471-3536 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 423-471-4583
Homepage: http://www.cn.edu/studlife/ministries/CAMPMII.HTM
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Maureen T. Shea ( CN=Maureen T. Shea/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO 1)
CREATION DATE/TIME: 4-MAY-1999 12:13:26.00
SUBJECT: Executive Order
TO: brent_walker ( brent_walker @ bjcpa.org [ UNKNOWN ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Here it is - I suspect it is the interpretation which is at fault!
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 10, 1998
EXECUTIVE ORDER 13107
IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, and bearing in mind the
obligations of the United States pursuant to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention Against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(CERD), and other relevant treaties concerned with the protection and
promotion of human rights to which the United States is now or may
become a party in the future, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Implementation of Human Rights Obligations. (a) It shall
be the policy and practice of the Government of the United States, being
committed to the protection and promotion of human rights and
fundamental freedoms, fully to respect and implement its obligations
under the international human rights treaties to which it is a party,
including the ICCPR, the CAT, and the CERD.
(b) It shall also be the policy and practice of the Government of the
United States to promote respect for international human rights, both in
our relationships with all other countries and by working with and
strengthening the various international mechanisms for the promotion of
human rights, including, inter alia, those of the United Nations, the
International Labor Organization, and the Organization of American
States.
Sec. 2. Responsibility of Executive Departments and Agencies. (a)
All executive departments and agencies (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 101-105,
including boards and commissions, and hereinafter referred to
collectively as "agency" or "agencies") shall maintain a current
awareness of United States international human rights obligations that
are relevant to their functions and shall perform such functions so as
to respect and implement those obligations fully. The head of each
agency shall designate a single contact officer who will be responsible
for overall coordination of the implementation of this order. Under
this order, all such agencies shall retain their established
institutional roles in the implementation, interpretation, and
enforcement of Federal law and policy.
(b) The heads of agencies shall have lead responsibility, in
coordination with other appropriate agencies, for questions concerning
implementation of human rights obligations that fall within their
respective operating and program responsibilities and authorities or, to
the extent that matters do not fall within the operating and program
responsibilities and authorities of any agency, that most closely relate
to their general areas of concern.
Sec. 3. Human Rights Inquiries and Complaints. Each agency shall
take lead responsibility, in coordination with other appropriate
agencies, for responding to inquiries, requests for information, and
complaints about violations of human rights obligations that fall within
its areas of responsibility or, if the matter does not fall within its
areas of responsibility, referring it to the appropriate agency for
response.
Sec. 4. Interagency Working Group on Human Rights Treaties. (a)
There is hereby established an Interagency Working Group on Human Rights
Treaties for the purpose of providing guidance, oversight, and
coordination with respect to questions concerning the adherence to and
implementation of human rights obligations and related matters.
(b) The designee of the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs shall chair the Interagency Working Group, which shall
consist of appropriate policy and legal representatives at the Assistant
Secretary level from the Department of State, the Department of Justice,
the Department of Labor, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and other agencies as the chair deems appropriate. The principal
members may designate alternates to attend meetings in their stead.
(c) The principal functions of the Interagency Working Group shall
include:
(i) coordinating the interagency review of any significant issues
concerning the implementation of this order and analysis and
recommendations in connection with pursuing the ratification of human
rights treaties, as such questions may from time to time arise;
(ii) coordinating the preparation of reports that are to be submitted
by the United States in fulfillment of treaty obligations;
(iii) coordinating the responses of the United States Government to
complaints against it concerning alleged human rights violations
submitted to the United Nations, the Organization of American States,
and other international organizations;
(iv) developing effective mechanisms to ensure that legislation
proposed by the Administration is reviewed for conformity with
international human rights obligations and that these obligations are
taken into account in reviewing legislation under consideration by the
Congress as well;
(v) developing recommended proposals and mechanisms for improving the
monitoring of the actions by the various States, Commonwealths, and
territories of the United States and, where appropriate, of Native
Americans and Federally recognized Indian tribes, including the review
of State, Commonwealth, and territorial laws for their conformity with
relevant treaties, the provision of relevant information for reports and
other monitoring purposes, and the promotion of effective remedial
mechanisms;
(vi) developing plans for public outreach and education concerning
the provisions of the ICCPR, CAT, CERD, and other relevant treaties, and
human rights-related provisions of domestic law;
(vii) coordinating and directing an annual review of United States
reservations, declarations, and understandings to human rights treaties,
and matters as to which there have been non-trivial complaints or
allegations of inconsistency with or breach of international human
rights obligations, in order to determine whether there should be
consideration of any modification of relevant reservations,
declarations, and understandings to human rights treaties, or United
States practices or laws. The results and recommendations of this
review shall be reviewed by the head of each participating agency;
(viii) making such other recommendations as it shall deem appropriate
to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs, concerning United States adherence to or
implementation of human rights treaties and related matters; and
(ix) coordinating such other significant tasks in connection with
human rights treaties or international human rights institutions,
including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Special
Rapporteurs and complaints procedures established by the United Nations
Human Rights Commission.
(d) The work of the Interagency Working Group shall not supplant the
work of other interagency entities, including the President's Committee
on the International Labor Organization, that address international
human rights issues.
Sec. 5. Cooperation Among Executive Departments and Agencies. All
agencies shall cooperate in carrying out the provisions of this order.
The Interagency Working Group shall facilitate such cooperative
measures.
Sec. 6. Judicial Review, Scope, and Administration. (a) Nothing in
this order shall create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable by any party against the United States, its agencies or
instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.
(b) This order does not supersede Federal statutes and does not
impose any justiciable obligations on the executive branch.
(c) The term "treaty obligations" shall mean treaty obligations as
approved by the Senate pursuant to Article II, section 2, clause 2 of
the United States Constitution.
(d) To the maximum extent practicable and subject to the availability
of appropriations, agencies shall carry out the provisions of this
order.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 10, 1998.
30-30-30
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Daniel F. Feldman ( CN=Daniel F. Feldman/OU=NSC/O=EOP [ NSC ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:15-OCT-1999 10:44:57.00
SUBJECT: Human Rights Treaties
TO: Peter Rundlet ( CN=Peter Rundlet/OU=WHO/O=EOP@EOP [ WHO ])
READ:UNKNOWN
CC: Scott Busby ( CN=Scott Busby/OU=NSC/O=EOP@EOP [ NSC )
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Just wanted to follow-up with you and start the process moving for an EOP
mtg which could address both domestic implementation of human rights
treaties (CERD particularly), and anything we should be doing for the 2001
Race Convention. I think there will be a lot of overlap in the attendees
for each meeting (DPC, One America, Deputy COS, us, you), and it makes
sense to me to combine the efforts in an omnibus "domestic civil
rights/race issues" group. What do you think? Let's grab lunch as well,
whenever you have time, so we can finish up our conversation from
Jamie's. I'm free next Fri. (22) or the following Mon. (25), or most late
afternoons if you want to grab a quicker and more informal coffee.
Cheers, Dan
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Peter Rundlet ( CN=Peter Rundlet/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:18-OCT-1999 18:15:19.00
SUBJECT: Re: Human Rights Treaties
TO: Daniel F. Feldman ( CN=Daniel F. Feldman/OU=NSC/O=EOP@EOP NSC
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Dan--
I think your process makes a lot of sense. Lunch on the Monday and Friday
you mentioned won't work for me. I'd be happy to grab some coffee any
afternoon or morning to catch up and talk about this. Let me know what
works for you.
I hope your job continues to go well.
Peter
Daniel F. Feldman
10/15/99 10:44:51 AM
Record Type: Record
To:
Peter Rundlet/WHO/EOP@EOP
cc: Scott Busby/NSC/EOP@EOP
Subject:
Human Rights Treaties
Just wanted to follow-up with you and start the process moving for an EOP
mtg which could address both domestic implementation of human rights
treaties (CERD particularly), and anything we should be doing for the 2001
Race Convention. I think there will be a lot of overlap in the attendees
for each meeting (DPC, One America, Deputy COS, us, you), and it makes
sense to me to combine the efforts in an omnibus "domestic civil
rights/race issues" group. What do you think? Let's grab lunch as well,
whenever you have time, so we can finish up our conversation from
Jamie's. I'm free next Fri. (22) or the following Mon. (25), or most late
afternoons if you want to grab a quicker and more informal coffee.
Cheers, Dan
RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (NOTES MAIL)
CREATOR: Maureen T. Shea ( CN=Maureen T. Shea/OU=WHO/O=EOP [ WHO ])
CREATION DATE/TIME:28-DEC-1999 10:52:00.00
SUBJECT: Question
TO: Scott Busby ( CN=Scott Busby/OU=NSC/O=EOP@EOP [ NSC ])
READ:UNKNOWN
TEXT:
Is there an interagency working group as a result of an Exec. Order
(13107) of December 10, 1998 regarding victims of human rights? I've had
a call from someone interested in contacting them - thanks - how much
longer are you here?