How did Section 203 allow intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to share grand jury information?

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George W. Bush: signing of USA PATRIOT Act — USA PATRIOT Act Pres. George W. Bush signing the USA PATRIOT Act in the East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., October 26, 2001.

To facilitate cooperation between law-enforcement and intelligence agencies regarding terrorism investigations, Section 203 of the USA PATRIOT Act modified the traditional secrecy surrounding federal grand jury proceedings.1

Specifically, the provision allowed government attorneys to disclose matters occurring before a grand jury to "any Federal law enforcement, intelligence, protective, immigration, national defense, or national security official" provided that the information concerned "foreign intelligence or counterintelligence."1