§ 3091 General congressional oversight provisions
§ 3091a Congressional oversight of controlled access programs
§ 3092 Reporting of intelligence activities other than covert actions
§ 3093 Presidential approval and reporting of covert actions
§ 3094 Funding of intelligence activities
§ 3095 Notice to Congress of certain transfers of defense articles and defense services
§ 3096 Specificity of National Intelligence Program budget amounts for counterterrorism, counterproliferation, counternarcotics, and counterintelligence
§ 3097 Budget treatment of costs of acquisition of major systems by the intelligence community
§ 3098 Annual personnel level assessments for the intelligence community
§ 3099 Vulnerability assessments of major systems
§ 3100 Intelligence community business system transformation
§ 3101 Reports on the acquisition of major systems
§ 3102 Critical cost growth in major systems
§ 3103 Future budget projections
§ 3104 Reports on security clearances
§ 3105 Summary of intelligence relating to terrorist recidivism of detainees held at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
§ 3105a Classified intelligence budget justification materials
§ 3106 Dates for submittal of various annual and semiannual reports to the congressional intelligence committees
§ 3107 Certification of compliance with oversight requirements
§ 3108 Auditability of certain elements of the intelligence community
§ 3109 Significant interpretations of law concerning intelligence activities
§ 3110 Annual report on violations of law or executive order
§ 3111 Briefings and notifications on counterintelligence activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
§ 3112 Annual reports on the domestic activities of the intelligence community
§ 3113 Unfunded priorities of the intelligence community: annual report
§ 3114 Submission of covered documents and classified annexes

Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 50 > Chapter 44 > Subchapter III - Accountability for Intelligence Activities

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • congressional intelligence committees: means &mdash. See 50 USC 3003
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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. See 50 USC 3003
  • covert action: means an activity or activities of the United States Government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where it is intended that the role of the United States Government will not be apparent or acknowledged publicly, but does not include&mdash. See 50 USC 3093
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • intelligence: includes foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. See 50 USC 3003
  • intelligence community: includes the following:

    (A) The Office of the Director of National Intelligence. See 50 USC 3003

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • 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 National Intelligence and the head of a United States department or agency or by the President. See 50 USC 3003
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1