He went on to serve as head of the Libyan foreign intelligence between 1994 and 2009.
Instead, the warrants could also have been used for purposes unrelated to foreign intelligence.
The other, this directorate, will just be foreign intelligence, without any domestic powers.
He also advised the government on foreign intelligence, civil aviation and national emergency telecommunications.
For a time it was the country's main agency for both internal and foreign intelligence.
From the beginning, foreign intelligence played an important role in the Soviet foreign policy.
But Congress is not naturally well suited to direct foreign intelligence.
This is a type of intelligence common on the Web, but previously foreign to the world of books.
And the consequences in the realm of foreign intelligence are even more disturbing.
When members of Congress threaten to play politics with classified foreign intelligence, however, that is another matter.