Later, Mr. Cheney discussed a draft of the order with Mr. Bush over lunch, one former official said.
The minister cannot "make an order … unless a draft of the order has been laid before parliament and approved by a resolution of each house".
"This didn't just pop out of my head," he said in a telephone interview on Monday, adding that he had sent a draft of the order to top Pentagon officials and discussed it "several times" with Mr. Rumsfeld.
Mr Bremer told the newspaper he sent a draft of the order to the Pentagon on May 9 2003 and that it had been circulated to the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and other officials.
(4) No recommendation may be made to Her Majesty in Council to make an Order under subsection (3) unless a draft of the Order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.
A draft of the order, obtained by the Washington Post, summarizes review measures Trump wants federal agencies to take and raises more questions about his policy on cybersecurity than it answers.
The rider was prompted by a conservative website's reporting on a leaked draft of that order.
According to a draft of the order obtained by the Times, Trump plans to rescind Obama's executive orders to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and end CIA prisons, and replace them with an old 2007 order from George W. Bush that allowed interrogators to use tactics that were not defined by the Geneva Convention as war crimes.
Moreover, Addington did not show drafts of the order to Powell or Rice, who, the senior Administration lawyer said, was incensed when she learned about her exclusion.
Earlier drafts of the order did not include the FBI in the critical infrastructure review, and observers questioned why the agency had been omitted.
