Title 18a

§ 9A. Coordination requirements relating to the prosecution of cases involving classified information

Statutory text

Briefings Required.—

The Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division or the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, as appropriate, and the appropriate United States attorney, or the designees of such officials, shall provide briefings to the senior agency official, or the designee of such official, with respect to any case involving classified information that originated in the agency of such senior agency official.

Timing of Briefings.—

Briefings under subsection (a) with respect to a case shall occur—

as soon as practicable after the Department of Justice and the United States attorney concerned determine that a prosecution or potential prosecution could result; and

at such other times thereafter as are necessary to keep the senior agency official concerned fully and currently informed of the status of the prosecution.

Senior Agency Official Defined.—

In this section, the term “senior agency official” has the meaning given that term in section 1.1 of Executive Order No. 12958.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

2000
Pub. L. 96–456 § 9A · 94 Stat. 2025
Enacted · -us-usc-t18a-pl-96-456-s9A
Pub. L. 96–456, § 9A, as added Pub. L. 106–567, title VI, § 607, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2855
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 96–456, § 9A, as added Pub. L. 106–567, title VI, § 607, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2855
2006
USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
Pub. L. 109–177 title V § 506(a)(8) · 120 Stat. 192
Inserted · -us-usc-t18a-pl-96-456-s9A-a
Pub. L. 109–177 inserted “or the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, as appropriate,” after “Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–177 inserted “or the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, as appropriate,” after “Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division”.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(8) Prosecution of cases involving classified information.— Section 9A(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act (18 U.S.C. App.) is amended by inserting “or the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, as appropriate,” after “Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

References in Text

Executive Order No. 12958, referred to in subsec. (c), which was formerly set out as a note under section 435 (now section 3161) of Title 50, War and National Defense, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 13526, § 6.2(g), Dec. 29, 2009, 75 F.R. 731.

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–177 inserted “or the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, as appropriate,” after “Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division”.

Credits

2000–2006 · 2 acts

2000Pub. L. 96–456, § 9A, as added Pub. L. 106–567, title VI, § 607, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2855
2006amended Pub. L. 109–177, title V, § 506(a)(8), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 248.

Show as published

(Pub. L. 96–456, § 9A, as added Pub. L. 106–567, title VI, § 607, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2855; amended Pub. L. 109–177, title V, § 506(a)(8), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 248.)