“President Carter attempted to clean up the CIA, firing almost 20 percent of its employees, focusing on the ‘clandestine operatives’ whose cloak-and-dagger exploits were then fresh news. He also dispersed the agency’s paramilitary arm, put legal restrictions on the agency’s power to spy within the United States, and passed an executive order banning assassinations. But none of Carter’s reforms would last. President Reagan signed an executive order in December 1981 authorizing the CIA to collect “foreign intelligence” inside the United States — the first of many steps his administration would take to restore the power and prestige of the agency.”
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/19/jimmy_carters_forgotten_history_lesson/singleton/
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