Executive Order 14152: Holding Former Government Officials Accountable for Election Interference and Improper Disclosure of Sensitive Governmental Information
President: Donald J. Trump
Directed revocation of active clearances for specified former officials and a 90-day intelligence-community report; a March 2025 memorandum separately revoked access for additional named people.
Status: In effect.
Is Executive Order 14152 still in effect? Yes. EO 14152’s clearance direction and Intelligence Community policy have not been revoked in the Federal Register disposition record checked. ODNI reported clearance revocations on May 2, 2025. Revoking a person’s clearance is not revoking this order; the separate March 2025 memorandum does not rescind it. The 90-day report deadline is not an expiration date, and a public copy of that report remains unlocated. Disposition entry; ODNI’s dated implementation account.
What does Executive Order 14152 do?
EO 14152 directed agencies to revoke active security clearances held by the former intelligence officials identified in a 2020 public letter and by John Bolton. It also directed the Director of National Intelligence to report within 90 days on related intelligence-community conduct. A March 2025 presidential memorandum ordered additional clearance and secure-facility access revocations for a different named group. The later memorandum confirms continued use of presidential clearance authority but is not the 90-day report required by EO 14152.
Later evidence reviewed September 27, 2026: A March 2025 memorandum expanded clearance revocations to another named group. It is separate from, and does not substitute for, the EO's unlocated 90-day DNI report.
There is a date distinction in the official publications: GovInfo dates the memorandum March 21, 2025, while the White House page is dated March 22. GovInfo also notes that the original was not available to verify the memorandum’s content. Both records concern the separate March action, not a revocation of EO 14152. GovInfo memorandum and editorial note; White House posting.
Reading the operative provisions of Executive Order 14152
The order contains two distinct assignments. First, it directs the Director of National Intelligence, consulting with the CIA Director, to revoke current or active clearances held by the people named in the order, including John Bolton. Second, it gives the DNI 90 days to review specified Intelligence Community activity and report recommendations to the President. The first is an immediate access decision; the second is a retrospective review. The later March memorandum covered a separate group and also addressed access to secure facilities, so it should not be counted as proof that the EO’s report was completed.
A security clearance governs access to classified information. The order does not itself terminate anyone’s private-sector work, decide a criminal case, or publish the DNI’s findings. Its purpose section states the administration’s allegations and policy rationale; those statements are not a judicial finding. The page therefore tracks the named clearance action, the separate report deadline, and later instruments independently. Read Executive Order 14152 in the Federal Register.
Before and after
Before the order
Former officials could retain active clearances or receive classified briefings only under executive-branch access decisions and applicable security rules.
After the order
The order directed agencies to remove active access for its named group and required a DNI review.
The later memorandum revoked access for additional people, but no public copy of the EO 14152 90-day report was located in the reviewed primary sources.
ODNI’s May 2, 2025 account reported clearance revocations for the letter’s signers and other individuals. That is a dated agency account of action taken, not an independent finding that the administration’s allegations were true or the text of the report ordered within 90 days. ODNI implementation account.
Who had to do what
| Agency / official | Direction | Timing |
|---|---|---|
| Director of National Intelligence | Revoke current or active clearances of the people listed in section 3(a), consulting the CIA Director; send the section 3(b) report on related activity, prevention recommendations and possible discipline to the President through the National Security Advisor. | Clearance action: effective immediately. Report: within 90 days of January 20, 2025. |
| Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | Consult with the DNI on both the listed clearance action and the report. | Immediate clearance action; consultation for the report due within 90 days; sections 3(a)–(b). |
| National Security Advisor | Transmission route for the DNI’s report to the President, not an independently assigned investigation or separate report. | Within the same 90-day report process; section 3(b). |
Original signed assignments. The later March memorandum separately addresses department and agency heads and clearance-granting entities; those are not additional original EO 14152 assignments. Separate later directions.
What happened next
Trump signed EO 14152. Section 3 assigns immediate clearance action and a separate report within 90 days. Signed directions.
The order was published at 90 FR 8343. Publication record.
GovInfo dates the separate memorandum to this day; the White House posting is dated March 22. It covers additional named people and secure-facility access, not a rescission of EO 14152. GovInfo notes the original was unavailable for verification. Dated memorandum record.
ODNI reported clearance revocations affecting the letter’s signers and other people. The release does not supply the ordered 90-day report or verify each individual’s prior active-clearance status. Agency implementation account.
The signed order and later memorandum were reconciled; the 90-day report was not located publicly.
Legal and source detail
How it works legally
The President has broad constitutional and statutory control over classified-information access within the executive branch, subject to applicable law and any protected employment interests. The order does not convict the named people, create damages liability or make the ordered DNI report public.
In Department of the Navy v. Egan, decided February 23, 1988, the Supreme Court held that the Merit Systems Protection Board could not review the substance of a clearance determination in the statutory adverse-action appeal before it. That narrow holding is not a 2025 ruling on this order or a decision about every possible constitutional challenge. Egan, 484 U.S. 518, 526–534.
Sources by type
If a source is unavailable, first check the cited publisher or another official repository. The cited publisher remains the authority.
Primary and official sources
Orders, laws, court records and official implementation material.
How we checked this
Last checked against the sources above on September 27, 2026. How we research →
Additional evidence review: October 16, 2026. The signed order, disposition entry, dated ODNI account and separate March memorandum were compared; the 90-day report was not located publicly.