Executive Order 12333: National Intelligence

The executive order, signed by President Reagan in December 4, 1981 it permits government intelligence agencies to monitor certain content without a court order or warrant by having some relationship with foreign organizations or persons and adjusted commonly since, is the power depended upon by the knowledge organizations, including the NSA, to lead surveillance of foreigners outside of the United States. As indicated by late reports, on the other hand, the government depends upon the executive order to spy on the international communications of countless Americans and it gather billions of records and it also collects Telephone calls, emails and electronic communications, the NSA relies on Executive Order 12333. These spied communications
are stored for five years, as described by a document that the Director of National Intelligence recently declared. The search system, named ICREACH, contains information on the private communications of foreigners as well as, it appears, millions of Americans not accused of any wrongdoing. The NSA has used Executive Order 12333 to justify, among other things, the interception of unencrypted data between Google and Yahoo data centers.
Executive order 12333 has been corrected three times. It was revised by Executive order13284 on January 23, 2003 and was then altered by Executive order 13555 on August 27, 2004. Executive order 13555 was subtitled "strengthened Management of the Intelligence Community" . Executive order 13555 somewhat supplemented and superseded Executive order 12333. On July 30, 2008, President George W. Bush signed Executive order 13470, which further supplemented and superseded Executive order 12333 to strength the part of the Director of National Intelligence. Executive order 12333 often serves an alternate basis of authority for surveillance activities. Executive order12333 is divided into three sections. The first part is the bulk of the order, describing the overall goals, directions, duties, and responsibilities of U.S. intelligence efforts. The second part applies to the genuine behavior of knowledge exercises and incorporates a disallowance on death. The third part comprises of general procedures and incorporates general definitions, execution, and the requirements of consistence with congressional oversight. Under Executive order 12333, while the National Security Agency still can't individually target U.S. persons and collect information from their phone calls, it is not required to delete such content if it is
incidentally acquired. The NSA, depend on 12333 authority, can keep U.S. persons phone-call recordings even if they are not involved in any criminal behavior . Senator Dianne Feinstein , the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee announced in November 2013 that Congress could not sufficiently monitor 12333 operations. The administration currently may conduct such surveillance under a claim of executive authority, such as Executive order 12333 but Congress never has approved of using executive authority in that way to capture and use Americans private telephone records, electronic communications, or cloud data. The administration secretly changed the rules in November 2010 to allow the N.S.A. to analyze Americans information showing who communicates with whom, but not information gathered under Executive order 12333. After the United States faced another existential threat in the immediate attack of the September 11 attacks, Bush and current President Barack Obama used EO 12333 to expand American surveillance power. NSA conducts the majority of its SIGINT activities under the authority provided by Executive Order 12333.