...information' means — "(i) information relating to the ability of the United States to protect Itself against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power or its agents ; "(il) information, with respect to foreign powers or territories, which because of...

...to conduct intelligence activities for the reasons set forth in 18 USC 2511(3), that is, to obtain information "deemed essential to the security of the...information against foreign intelligence activities" as the principal, if not sole, source of its power to engage in the very activities which new legislation...

...a balancing of Disclaimer which provides, in part, that "[n]othing contained in this chapter . . . shall limit the constitutional power of the President...measures as he deems necessary to protect the Nation ... to obtain foreign intelligence information ... or to protect national security information against...

...surveillance. The first three categories related to foreign intelligence and counterintelligence matters : (1) to protect the Nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power; (2) to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States...

...221801]. The same statute under which courts authorize such wire tapping and bugging explicitly affirms "the constitutional power of the President to take such measures as he deems necessary . . . to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States . . ....

...authorization of extraordinary techniques, that their use is necessary for one of the following reasons: a. To protect the nation against actual or potential attack, or other hostile act of a foreign power; b. to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security...

...necessary to the protection of the nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of force of a foreign power; to obtain foreign intelligence...information deemed essential to the security of the US; or to protect national security information against hostile foreign intelligence activity. "14/...

...has certified that the surveillance is likely to reveal information necessary to the protection of the nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of force of a foreign power; to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security...

...has certified that the surveillance is likely to reveal information necessary to the protection of the nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of force of a foreign power; to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security...

...intelligence activities. Nor shall anything in this chapter be deemed to limit the constitutional powers of the President to take such measures as he deems necessary to protect the United States against the overthrow of the Government by force or other unlawful means, or against...