Defense and national security

Executive Order 13070: The Intelligence Oversight Board, Amendment to Executive Order 12863

President: Bill Clinton

Changed the Intelligence Oversight Board’s membership and reporting rules within the President’s intelligence advisory framework.

Status: Superseded. Is Executive Order 13070 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13070 was superseded. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13070 do?

EO 13070 made the Intelligence Oversight Board a standing committee of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, capped it at four presidentially designated members, and required reporting to the President. EO 13301 raised the cap to five in 2003. EO 13462 revoked the parent EO 12863 in 2008 and established a new advisory and oversight board framework.

Administration position: The order changed presidential advisory oversight; it did not replace inspectors general, congressional intelligence committees or statutory reporting duties.
SignedDecember 15, 1997
Parent orderEO 12863
Later amendmentEO 13301 on May 14, 2003
Reporting linePresident

Before and after

Before the order

EO 12863 supplied the board’s earlier membership and reporting text.

After the order

EO 13070 replaced that text; EO 13301 later changed the membership cap from four to five.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
PresidentDesignate board members from the advisory boardAt presidential discretion
Intelligence Oversight BoardReport to the PresidentUnder the amended framework

What happened next

EO 13070 changed the oversight board structure.

EO 13301 increased the membership cap to five.

EO 13462 revoked the parent EO 12863 and established a replacement framework.