I’d like to see the executive order before believing this. I’ll search for it.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/obama.html
I looked on this site and could not find an executive order on this.
nothing on whitehut.gov
However, it was signed on March 8th, 2013. Not recently. As I am at work, I'll leave it up to you folks to read it an verify if it is what Alexander Higgins says it is.