Executive Order 12333

On 4 December 1981 President Ronald Reagan 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.^[1] This executive order was entitled United States Intelligence Activities.

It was amended by Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, on August 27 2004. On July 30, 2008, President Bush issued Executive Order 13470^[2] amending Executive Order 12333 to strengthen the role of the DNI.^[3][4]

1 EO 12333 invoked for Able Danger 2 Discussions of EO 12333's proscription on assassination 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

EO 12333 was invoked by SOCOM lawyers as the legal reasoning behind the destruction of 2.5 terabytes of data compiled by Able Danger. 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 Agency, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer claims that 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and two of the muscle hijackers aboard AA77 were identified as early as January/February 2000 by the Able Danger team.^[5] 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."^[6]

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.^[7][8]

• Church Committee
• List of United States federal executive orders

• 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 - (a 5k summary of eo12333)
• Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community, White House, 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
• Hess, Pamela (November 8 2002). "Experts: Yemen strike not assassination". UPI. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021107-042725-6586r. 
• Elizabeth B. Bazan (January 4, 2002). "Assassination Ban and E.O. 12333:A Brief Summary" (.pdf). CRS Report for Congress. Retrieved on April 26, 2006.
• Tom O'Connor, Mark Stevens (November 2005). "The Handling of Illegal Enemy Combatants" (HTML). Retrieved on April 26, 2006.
• "Memorandum on Executive Order 12333 and Assassination" (PDF). Retrieved on April 26, 2006.
• Jeffrey Addicott (November 7, 2002). "The Yemen Attack: Illegal Assassination or Lawful Killing?". HTML. Retrieved on April 26, 2006.

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