- Clinton did exactly what Bush has done and here is the
Executive Order for it...
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- [Federal Register page and date: 60 FR 8169; February
13, 1995]
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- THE WHITE HOUSE
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- Office of the Press Secretary
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- ___________________
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- For Immediate Release
- February 9, 1995
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- EXECUTIVE ORDER 12949
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- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PHYSICAL SEARCHES
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- By the authority
vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
States, including sections 302 and 303 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act of 1978 ("Act") (50 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.), as amended
by Public Law 103- 359, and in order to provide for the authorization of
physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes as set forth in the
Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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- Section 1.
Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act, the Attorney General is authorized
to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign
intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney
General makes the certifications required by that section.
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- Sec. 2. Pursuant
to section 302(b) of the Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve
applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court under section
303 of the Act to obtain orders for physical searches for the purpose of
collecting foreign intelligence information.
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- Sec. 3. Pursuant
to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, the following officials, each of whom
is employed in the area of national security or defense, is designated
to make the certifications required by section 303(a)(7) of the Act in
support of applications to conduct physical searches:
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- (a) Secretary of
State;
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- (b) Secretary of
Defense;
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- (c) Director of
Central Intelligence;
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- (d) Director of
the Federal Bureau of
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- (e) Deputy Secretary
of State;
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- (f) Deputy Secretary
of Defense; and
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- (g) Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence.
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- None of the above
officials, nor anyone officially acting in that capacity, may exercise
the authority to make the above certifications, unless that official has
been appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate.
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- WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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- THE WHITE HOUSE,
- February 9, 1995.
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