"We must uncover terror cells in 60 or more countries, using every tool of finance, intelligence, and law enforcement.
Together, we have disrupted terrorist financing, strengthened intelligence sharing, enhanced our law enforcement cooperation and improved the security of international commerce and travel.
The legal aciton, led by Mr Sullivan described accounts in the UK, Switzerland and the Caribbean, that had been used to cover the president's lavish spending under the pretence of financing overseas intelligence operations.
The cash does not appear to be subject to the oversight and restrictions placed on official American aid to the country or even the C.I.A.'s formal assistance programs, like financing Afghan intelligence agencies.
In Ohio, Senator Mike DeWine, a Republican, recently ran an advertisement showing the World Trade Center towers and accusing his Democratic challenger, Representative Sherrod Brown, of "weakening America's security" by a series of votes on issues like financing for intelligence programs.
For these finance wizards, intelligence and hard work are the ingredients for success.
The other part, the Military Intelligence Program, finances tactical intelligence for the armed forces and is controlled primarily by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
The provision, a few paragraphs in a multipage spending bill that finances the intelligence agencies, would subject a government official convicted of disclosing any classified information to three years in prison.
Powell said the coalition would not hold if the United States targeted Iraq, and without the coalition there could be no shutting off of terrorist finances, no intelligence sharing, no international arrests.
"To the extent that the P.M.O.I. has retained networks and supporters inside Iran since, at the latest, 2002," the judges said, using the abbreviation for the group's full name, "they have been directed to social protest, finance and intelligence gathering activities which would not fall within the definition of 'terrorism' for the purposes of the 2000 Act".
