50 U.S.C. § 3094: Funding of intelligence activities

those funds were specifically authorized by Congress for use for such intelligence or intelligence-related activities; or in the case of funds from the Reserve for Contingencies of the Central Intelligence Agency and consistent with the provisions of section 3093 of this title concerning any significant anticipated intelligence activity, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency has notified the appropriate congressional committees of the intent to make such funds available for such activity; or the activity to be funded is a higher priority intelligence or intelligence-related activity; the use of such funds for such activity supports an emergent need, improves program effectiveness, or increases efficiency; and the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, or the Attorney General, as appropriate, has notified the appropriate congressional committees of the intent to make such funds available for such activity; nothing in this subsection prohibits obligation or expenditure of funds available to an intelligence agency in accordance with sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31. Funds available to an intelligence agency may not be made available for any intelligence or intelligence-related activity for which funds were denied by the Congress. No funds appropriated for, or otherwise available to, any department, agency, or entity of the United States Government may be expended, or may be directed to be expended, for any covert action, as defined in section 3093(e) of this title , unless and until a Presidential finding required by subsection (a) of section 3093 of this title has been signed or otherwise issued in accordance with that subsection. the types of activities for which nonappropriated funds may be expended; and the circumstances under which an activity must be reported as a significant anticipated intelligence activity before such funds can be expended. Procedures for purposes of paragraph (1) shall be jointly agreed upon by the congressional intelligence committees and, as appropriate, the Director of National Intelligence or the Secretary of Defense. the term “intelligence agency” means any department, agency, or other entity of the United States involved in intelligence or intelligence-related activities; the term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the activity and the amount of funds proposed to be used for that activity were identified in a formal budget request to the Congress, but funds shall be deemed to be specifically authorized for that activity only to the extent that the Congress both authorized the funds to be appropriated for that activity and appropriated the funds for that activity; or although the funds were not formally requested, the Congress both specifically authorized the appropriation of the funds for the activity and appropriated the funds for the activity.