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Whoa: Bush signs new rules, roles for spy agencies

Bush signs new rules, roles for spy agencies

President Bush approved an order 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

 

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