The issue focused on the effect of the US government's 2013 national security order, which added a new step to the process of building a list of people to be terror-exposed. The order's author, US President Barack Obama, said the new order was needed to “ensure the United States is not at war with the people of the United States of America”. The current list of people to be subject to the order is not as broad as the one that was used to build the new one