The Government Is Trying to Keep Key NSA Spying Rules Secret The Government Is Trying to Keep Key NSA Spying Rules Secret New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Executive Order 12333 New ...

Issue: Does Executive Order 12333 authorize the Intelligence Community (IC) to monitor Americans communication with persons abroad? Background: E.O. 12333 governs the conduct of American intelligence ...

Like everything else in Washington, there’s a legal basis for what many believe is extreme government overreach—in this case, it's Executive Order 12333, issued in 1981. “12333 is used to ...

A presidential order that governs the bulk of the NSA's spying (and a good deal of other agencies' spying), Executive Order 12333 has gotten a lot of attention lately. In July, a former State ...

The new rules allow raw data collected under Executive Order 12333 to be shared with any of the 16 US Intelligence agencies, including the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security.

In July, Bush amended Executive Order 12333, which has served as the guidebook for intelligence agencies' operations for almost three decades. Issued by President Reagan in his first year in ...