The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board is an organization within the executive branch of the government which acts in an advisory role to the President of the United States. The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board is meant to provide the President with important information and advice concerning the intelligence activities of the United States, particularly in terms of what intelligence has been gathered, how intelligence has been gathered, analysis of gathered intelligence, and concerns regarding counterintelligence operations.
The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board was originally founded in 1956 by an executive order from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, though its name was different at the time. The original purpose of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board was similar to the function for which it is used today, as it was meant to provide the President with important information regarding intelligence.
The Intelligence Oversight Board was a particular entity within the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board which was formed on the executive order of President Gerald Ford with something of a mandate to examine and investigate potential abuses and breaches of the law by clandestine organizations within the American government.
This means that the original purpose of the executive order passed by President Ford which led to the creation of the Intelligence Oversight Board was to ensure that intelligence agencies were not overstepping boundaries in the pursuit of their purposes. President George W. Bush terminated this element of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in 2008 by executive order.
