Defense officials have refused to say exactly what procedures were authorized under the proposal or under later directives put into effect in Iraq.
Later recycling directives dealing with end-of-life vehicles (Directive 2000/53/EC) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (Directive 2002/96/EC), for example, set out more detail about how waste management facilities should operate and report on their activities.
The US later issued a directive designed to help lessen the chance of similar mass civilian deaths.
She was neither the first nor the last diplomatic wife to receive the directive, later reduced to six words: "Pay, pack and follow, at convenience".
Mr. Ashcroft issued a directive, later put into law, requiring that records of background checks on gun buyers be destroyed after only one business day.
In what will be one of the more talked-about passages in this book — already disputed in the news — Mr. Suskind contends that Mr. Obama did decide in early 2009 that a plan should be pulled together "to restructure many of the large, troubled banks starting with Citigroup," but that he discovered nearly a month later that this directive "had been ignored by the Treasury".
Ignoring due process, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered that the men be tried in secret before a military commission — a tactic, then backed by the U.S. Supreme Court, that President George W. Bush would replicate 59 years later in his directive that Guantanamo Bay detainees be judged in a similar fashion.
But just 3 weeks later, a presidential directive put the money on hold.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will issue a directive later today ordering state agencies to "prioritize the protection of Texans' religious liberties".
The "bail-in" scheme should be up and running by January 2016 at the latest, says the text, i.e. two years earlier than the Commission proposed, but one year later than the directive's other provisions, so as to allow some time for adaptation.
