Interview with Steve Kroft of CBS News' '60 Minutes'
09/20/2008
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I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13288.
Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the authority granted by law to an agency, or the head thereof;
I declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The situation in Libya continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United State...