The CSG, unlike most standing interagency committees, did not have to report through the Deputies Committee.

The proposal was had been described at a meeting in late October of the Deputies Committee, a foreign policy body.

The Deputies Committee, a high-level group of Administration officials that meets on national security issues, had been developing plans for dealing with the situation for weeks.

The Deputies Committee did not endorse the Pentagon plan.

There is some dispute as to whether or not the Deputies Committee endorsed resuming reconnaissance flights at its April 30, 2001, meeting.

The less powerful but more highly organized part of the apparatus for shaping East-West policy is called the Deputies Committee.

In the NSC during the first Bush administration, many tough issues were addressed at the level of the Deputies Committee.

He also worried that reporting through the Deputies Committee would slow decisionmaking on counterterrorism.

The full Deputies Committee discussed al Qaeda on April 30.

On August 1, the Deputies Committee met again to discuss the armed Predator.