Executive Order 12333 Totally Explained

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Executive Order 12333 extends powers and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence agencies and directs the leaders of other U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA (and now the DNI) requests for information. This executive order, entitled United States Intelligence Activities, was signed by President Ronald Reagan on December 4, 1981. It was amended by Executive Order 13355: Strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community

, on August 27, 2004.
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.

EO 12333 invoked for Able Danger

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 DIA, 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 of 2000 by the Able Danger team.(External Link

) 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."(External Link

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Discussions of EO 12333's proscription on assassination

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