National Security Council
Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20504
Phone, 202-456-1414
Members:
The President George W. Bush
The Vice President Dick Cheney
The Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
The Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Statutory Advisers:
Director, Central Intelligence Agency Porter J. Goss
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF
Standing Participants:
The Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snow
U.S. Representative to the United Nations (vacancy)
Chief of Staff to the President Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Assistant to the President for National Security Stephen J. Hadley
Affairs
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Allan B. Hubbard
Officials:
Assistant to the President for National Security Stephen J. Hadley
Affairs
Assistant to the President for National Security Jack D. Crouch II
Affairs and Deputy National Security Adviser
Executive Secretary Phillip V. Lago
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The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 402). The Council was placed in the Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1949
(5 U.S.C. app.).
The National Security Council is chaired by the President. Its statutory members, in addition to the President, are the Vice President and the Secretaries of State and Defense. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory military adviser to the Council, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is its intelligence adviser. The Secretary of the Treasury, the U.S. Representative...
