Sec. 1325. Cooperation with Office of the Inspector General
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Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall make explicit in writing to all Department of State personnel, including the Secretary of State, Department employees, contractors, and political appointees, and shall consider updating the Foreign Affairs Manual and the Foreign Affairs Handbook to explicitly specify, that if any of such personnel does not comply within 60 days with a request for an interview or access to documents from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department such personnel shall be subject to appropriate administrative discipline including, when circumstances warrant, suspension without pay or removal.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and on a quarterly basis thereafter, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State and the United States Agency for Global Media shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report in unclassified form detailing the following: The title of any individual who has not complied within 60 days with a request for an interview or access to documents from the Office of the Inspector General.
The date on which such request was initially made. Any extension of time that was voluntarily granted to such individual by the Office of the Inspector General. The general subject matter regarding which the Office of the Inspector General has requested of such individual. Additional information pertaining solely to the subject matter of a request described in paragraph
(1)may be provided in a supplemental classified annex, if necessary, but all other information required by the reports required under such paragraph shall be provided in unclassified form.