The Intelligence Oversight Board, Amendment to Executive Order 12863
Signed December 15, 1997·William J. Clinton·62 FR 66493
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Amends Executive Order 12863 to change the structure of the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), which oversees intelligence activities within the executive branch. Establishes the IOB as a standing committee of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), made up of no more than four members chosen by the President from among PFIAB's membership. Allows the PFIAB Chairman to also chair or serve on the IOB if the President so designates, and permits the IOB Chairman, with the PFIAB Chairman's agreement, to authorize full-time staff and consultants. Also revises the order so that the IOB reports directly to the President.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to emphasize the role of the Intelligence Oversight Board in providing executive branch oversight, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12863, September 13, 1993 Amended by: EO 13301, May 14, 2003 See: EO 13376, April 13, 2005
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13070 of December 15, 1997
The Intelligence Oversight Board, Amendment to
Executive Order 12863
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to emphasize the role of the
Intelligence Oversight Board in providing executive
branch oversight, it is hereby ordered that Executive
Order 12863 is amended as follows:
Section 1. The text in section 2.1 is deleted and the
following text is inserted in lieu thereof: “The
Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) is hereby
established as a standing committee of the PFIAB. The
IOB shall consist of no more than four members
designated by the President from among the membership
of the PFIAB. The Chairman of the PFIAB may also serve
as the Chairman or a member of the IOB if so designated
by the President. The IOB shall utilize such full-time
staff and consultants as authorized by the Chairman of
the IOB with the concurrence of the Chairman of the
PFIAB.”
Sec. 2. The first sentence in section 2.3 is deleted
and the following sentence is inserted in lieu thereof:
“The IOB shall report to the President.”
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 15, 1997.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 15, 1997. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.