EconDefense
INT-37 / Intelligence, counterintelligence and security

Obtain narrowly authorized financial records or consumer reports for intelligence/counterterrorism

Invoke statutory financial-privacy exceptions for authorized foreign-intelligence/CI requests and the separate consumer-report disclosure power for authorized international-terrorism work.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-37 · Security & information

Authority holder: Authorized government agency and designated certifying supervisory official; DoD element must establish its underlying authorized function.

Security & information

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Specific authorized foreign intelligence/CI or international-terrorism purpose as statute requires.
  • Specific customer/entity/account identifier; written statutory certification and review/notice safeguards.

Limits & exclusions

  • 12 USC3414(a)(5) mandatory financial-institution compliance power is specifically FBI; do not infer identical compulsory bank-record power for DoD from(a)(1).
  • 15 USC1681v applies to international terrorism, not generic business intelligence or contractor market research.
  • Judicial review and applicable privacy/civil-liberties protections remain.

Funding conditions

  • Normal lawful intelligence/CI program funding; no special financial subsidy authority.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

Resources

  • Appropriate NIP/MIP program/resource owner and agency comptroller
    Office profile

Approval

  • Designated supervisory certifying official
  • Agency counsel and oversight review
    Office profile

Execution

  • Properly authorized Defense CI/intelligence element and trained records-request officials

Partners & review

  • DNI for NIP matters
  • Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff
    Office profile
  • FBI/CIA or State only where required by the activity

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Authorized requirement → CI/intelligence counsel → precise statutory request and certification → lawful recipient response/review → controlled use/dissemination.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on express statutory capability; execution/delegation and currently available resources require program-specific confirmation.

Currentness: GovInfo2024 Title12 chapter35 and Title15 chapter41 subchapterIII full statutory texts read; OLRC §3414 indexed snapshot2026-09-20. No extension-dependent FISA power is claimed.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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