50 U.S.C. § 401a : US Code - Section 401A: Definitions

Search 50 U.S.C. § 401a : US Code - Section 401A: Definitions

As used in this Act:
(1) The term "intelligence" includes foreign intelligence and
counterintelligence.
(2) The term "foreign intelligence" means information relating
to the capabilities, intentions, or activities of foreign
governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or
foreign persons, or international terrorist activities.
(3) The term "counterintelligence" means information gathered,
and activities conducted, to protect against espionage, other
intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by
or on behalf of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign
organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist
activities.
(4) The term "intelligence community" includes the following:
(A) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
(B) The Central Intelligence Agency.
(C) The National Security Agency.
(D) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
(E) The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
(F) The National Reconnaissance Office.
(G) Other offices within the Department of Defense for the
collection of specialized national intelligence through
reconnaissance programs.
(H) The intelligence elements of the Army, the Navy, the Air
Force, the Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and the Department of Energy.
(I) The Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department
of State.
(J) The Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department
of the Treasury.
(K) The elements of the Department of Homeland Security
concerned with the analysis of intelligence information,
including the Office of Intelligence of the Coast Guard.
(L) Such other elements of any other department or agency as
may be designated by the President, or designated jointly by
the Director of National Intelligence and the head of the
department or agency concerned, as an element of the
intelligence community.
(5) The terms "national intelligence" and "intelligence related
to national security" refer to all intelligence, regardless of
the source from which derived and including information gathered
within or outside the United States, that -
(A) pertains, as determined consistent with any guidance
issued by the President, to more than one United States
Government agency; and
(B) that involves -
(i) threats to the United States, its people, property, or
interests;
(ii) the development, proliferation, or use of weapons of
mass destruction; or
(iii) any other matter bearing on United States national or
homeland security.
(6) The term "National Intelligence Program" refers to all
programs, projects, and activities of the intelligence community,
as well as any other programs of the intelligence community
designated jointly by the Director of Central Intelligence and
the head of a United States department or agency or by the
President. Such term does not include programs, projects, or
activities of the military departments to acquire intelligence
solely for the planning and conduct of tactical military
operations by United States Armed Forces.
(7) The term "congressional intelligence committees" means -
(A) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(B) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the
House of Representatives.