Trump Admin’s Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built On A National Security Memo With No Congressional Approvalfrom the criminalizing-ideology deptThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. This structure allows the president to direct law enforcement and national security agencies, with little opportunity for congressional oversight. Presidential national security powersExecutive memorandums direct agencies to prepare reports, implement policies or align programs with the administration’s priorities. When they relate to national security, like NSPM-7, they’re called national security directives – many of which stay classified and may not be declassified for years or decades. Most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, accounting for the vast majority of domestic terrorism fatalities.