---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8782"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8782"
heading: "Applicability to certain intelligence activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8782"
units:
  - "Chapter 94 — Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights"
  - "Subchapter VI — General Provisions"
---

# §8782. Applicability to certain intelligence activities


Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall apply to the authorized intelligence activities of the United States.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 112–158, title VI, § 602, Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1264.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 112–158, Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1214, known as the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 8701 of this title and Tables.