For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 31, 2008

Executive Order: Further Amendments to Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities



White House News


Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Revision of Executive Order 12333
Executive Order 12333: United States Intelligence Activities (as amended)
Statement by the Press Secretary
Fact Sheet: A Lasting Framework for United States Intelligence Activities
In Focus: National Security


By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458), and in order to update and clarify Executive Order 13355 of August 27, 2004, Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981, as amended, is hereby further amended as follows:

Section 1. The Preamble to Executive Order 12333, as amended, is further amended by:

(a) Striking "and" and inserting in lieu thereof a comma before the word "accurate", and inserting ", and insightful" after the word "accurate" in the first sentence;

(b) Striking "statutes" and inserting in lieu thereof "the laws" before "of the United States of America" in the third sentence; and

(c) Striking "the" before "United States intelligence activities" in the third sentence.

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GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 30, 2008.


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