On 4 December 1981 President
Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...
signed
Executive Order 12333,
an Executive Order intended to
extend powers and responsibilities of US intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information.
This executive order was entitled
United States Intelligence Activities.
It was amended by
Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence CommunityExecutive Order 13355 is a United States Presidential Executive Order signed on August 27, 2004, by President George W. Bush.Its goal was "Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community"....
, on August 27 2004.
On 4 December 1981 President
Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...
signed
Executive Order 12333,
an Executive Order intended to
extend powers and responsibilities of US intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information.
This executive order was entitled
United States Intelligence Activities.
It was amended by
Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence CommunityExecutive Order 13355 is a United States Presidential Executive Order signed on August 27, 2004, by President George W. Bush.Its goal was "Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community"....
, on August 27 2004. On July 30, 2008,
President BushGeorge Walker Bush was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000....
issued
Executive Order 13470On July 30, 2008, President Bush issued Executive Order 13470 amending Executive Order 12333 to strengthen the role of the Director of National Intelligence.- See also :*Executive order*List of United States federal executive orders...
amending Executive Order 12333 to strengthen the role of the DNI.
EO 12333 invoked for Able Danger
EO 12333 was invoked by
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lawyers as the legal reasoning behind the destruction of 2.5 terabytes of data compiled by Able Danger.
Able DangerAble Danger was a classified military planning effort under the command of the U.S. Special Operations Command . It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Hugh Shelton,written by Craig E Ennis Able Danger...
was the J3 planning operation that allegedly identified four of the hijackers in the 9/11 attacks. Able Danger liaison to the
Defense Intelligence AgencyThe Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is a major producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16,500 military and civilian employees worldwide...
, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer claims that 9/11 ringleader
Mohamed AttaMohamed Atta
was an Egyptian student who studied in Germany in the late 1990s and soon became friends with Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi Binalshibh who together formed what is now known as The Hamburg Cell...
,
Marwan al-ShehhiA University student, Marwan Yousef al-Shehhi was a student from the United Arab Emirates who moved to Hamburg in 1996 and soon became close friends with Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi Binalshibh...
, and two of the muscle hijackers aboard AA77 were identified as early as January/February 2000 by the Able Danger team. The invocation of EO 12333 is particularly strange in this case considering the retention of data is allowed when the information is "publicly available" or "obtained in the course of a ...international terrorism investigation."
Discussions of EO 12333's proscription on assassination
One of the clauses of this executive order reiterates a proscription on US intelligence agencies sponsoring or carrying out an assassination. As early as 1998 this proscription against assassination was reinterpreted, and relaxed, for targets who are classified by the United States as connected to terrorism.
External links
- Metadata concerning Executive Order 12333, US Federal Register - indicates other executive orders that this E.O. amends, revokes, and is amended by.
- Should U.S. officials say anything that could harm U.S. soldiers?, Milnet
In computer networking, MILNET was the name given to the part of the ARPANET internetwork designated for unclassified United States Department of Defense traffic....
- (a 5k summary of eo12333)
- Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, White House
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, August 27, 2004
- Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, US Federal Register, September 1, 2004
- Procedures Governing the Activities of DoD Intelligence Components that Affect United States Persons, December 1982
- Another Law Under Assault, Washington Post, September 29, 2005