Sec. 308. Required counterintelligence briefings and notifications
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As provided in subparagraph (B), for each Federal election, the Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall make publicly available on an Internet website an advisory report on foreign counterintelligence and cybersecurity threats to election campaigns for Federal offices. Each such report shall include, consistent with the protection of sources and methods, each of the following:
A description of foreign counterintelligence and cybersecurity threats to election campaigns for Federal offices. A summary of best practices that election campaigns for Federal offices can employ in seeking to counter such threats. An identification of any publicly available resources, including United States Government resources, for countering such threats. A report under this subsection shall be made available as follows: In the case of a report regarding an election held for the office of Senator or Member of the House of Representatives during 2018, not later than the date that is 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
In the case of a report regarding an election for a Federal office during any subsequent year, not later than the date that is 1 year before the date of the election. A report under this subsection shall reflect the most current information available to the Director of National Intelligence regarding foreign counterintelligence and cybersecurity threats. If the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis jointly determine that an election campaign for Federal office is subject to a heightened foreign counterintelligence or cybersecurity threat, the Director and the Under Secretary, consistent with the protection of sources and methods, may make available additional information to the appropriate representatives of such campaign.
Title V of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3091 et seq.), as amended by section 304, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: In addition to, and without any derogation of, the requirement under section 501 to keep the congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of the intelligence and counterintelligence activities of the United States, not less frequently than once each quarter, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall provide to the congressional intelligence committees a briefing on the counterintelligence activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Such briefings shall include, at a minimum, an overview and update of— the counterintelligence posture of the Bureau; counterintelligence investigations; and any other information relating to the counterintelligence activities of the Bureau that the Director determines necessary. In addition to the quarterly briefings under subsection (a), the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall promptly notify the congressional intelligence committees of any counterintelligence investigation carried out by the Bureau with respect to any counterintelligence risk or threat that is related to an election or campaign for Federal office.
The Director shall develop guidelines governing the scope of the briefings provided under subsection (a), the notifications provided under subsection (b), and the information required by section 308(a)(2) of the Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020. The Director shall consult the congressional intelligence committees during such development. The Director shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees— the guidelines under paragraph
(1)upon issuance; and any updates to such guidelines by not later than 15 days after making such update. . The table of contents at the beginning of such Act, as amended by section 304, is further amended by inserting after the item relating to section 512 the following new item: Sec. 513. Briefings and notifications on counterintelligence activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. .
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