Bush Signs New Rules, Roles For Spy Agencies

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The San Francisco Chronicle (AP).

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President Bush approved an order Wednesday that rewrites the rules
governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States
and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence
director, according to a U.S. official and government documents.

Executive Order 12333, which lays out the responsibilities of each of the
16 agencies, maintains the decades-old prohibitions on assassination and
using unwitting human subjects for scientific experiments, according to a
power point briefing given to Congress that was reviewed by The Associated
Press. The CIA notoriously tested LSD on human subjects in the 1950s, which
was revealed by a Senate investigation in 1977.

The new order gives the national intelligence director, a position created
in 2005, new authority over any intelligence information collected that
pertains to more than one agency — an attempt to force greater
information exchange among agencies traditionally reluctant to share their
most prized intelligence. The order directs the attorney general to develop
guidelines to allow agencies access to information held by other agencies.
That could potentially include the sharing of sensitive information about
Americans.

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More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/30/national/w18262
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- - ferg

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