Sec. 615. Report on counter-narrative activities
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Office of Community Partnerships, and consistent with the protection of sources and methods, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the counter-narrative activities of the Department of Homeland Security with respect to the Islamic State and other extremist groups. The report under subsection
(a)shall include the following: A description of whether, and to what extent, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conducting counter-messaging narrative activities with respect to the Islamic State and other extremist groups, consults or coordinates with the Secretary of State, regarding the counter-messaging narrative activities undertaken by the Department of State with respect to the Islamic State and other extremist groups, including counter-messaging narrative activities conducted by the Global Engagement Center of the Department of State. Any criteria employed by the Secretary of Homeland Security for selecting, developing, promulgating, or changing the counter-messaging narrative approach of the Department of Homeland Security, including any counter-messaging narratives, with respect to the Islamic State and other extremist groups. In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— the congressional intelligence committees; and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.