Foreign intelligence information

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Foreign intelligence information is:

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(1) information that relates to, and if concerning a United States person is necessary to, the ability of the United States to protect against —

(A) actual or potential attack or other grave hostile acts of a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power;

(B) sabotage or international terrorism by a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power; or

(C) clandestine intelligence activities by an intelligence service or network of a foreign power or by an agent of a foreign power; or

(2) information with respect to a foreign power or foreign territory that relates to, and if concerning a United States person is necessary to —

(A) the national defense or the security of the United States; or

(B) the conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States.^[1]

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information [that] relates to the capabilities, intentions, and activities of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, but does not include counterintelligence except for information on international terrorist activities.^[2]

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