Sec. 7. Findings and recommendations of the Serious Security Incident Investigation Permanent Coordinating Committee
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Section 304 of the Diplomatic Security Act ( 22 U.S.C. 4834 ) is amended to read as follows: The SSII/PCC shall review the Report of Investigation prepared pursuant to section 303(c), all other evidence, reporting, and relevant information relating to an incident involving loss of life, serious injury, or significant destruction of property at, or related to, a United States Government
(USG)mission abroad, including an examination of the facts and circumstances surrounding any serious injuries, loss of life, or significant destruction of property resulting from such incident and shall make the following written findings and final determinations: Whether such incident was security related and is determined to be a serious security incident. If such incident was an attack on a USG mission abroad, whether the security systems, security countermeasures, and security procedures operated as intended, and whether such systems, countermeasures, and procedures worked to materially mitigate such attack or were inadequate to mitigate any threat associated with such attack. If such incident involved an individual or group of officers conducting an approved operation outside a USG mission, a determination regarding whether a valid process was followed in evaluating such operation for approval and weighing any risks associated with such operation, except that such a determination shall not seek to assign accountability for such incident unless the SSII/PCC determines a breach of duty has occurred. An assessment of the impact of intelligence and information availability relating to such incident, and whether the USG mission was aware of the general operating threat environment or any more specific threat intelligence or information and the extent to which such was taken into account in ongoing and specific operations. Such other facts and circumstances that may be relevant to the appropriate security management of USG missions abroad. Not later than 60 days after receiving the Report of Investigation prepared under section 303(b), the SSII/PCC shall submit to the Secretary of State a SSII/PCC Report on the incident at issue, including the determination and findings under subsection
(a)and any related recommendations related to preventing and responding to similar such incidents. Not later than 90 days after receiving such SSII/PCC Report, the Secretary of State shall submit such SSII/PCC Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. Such SSII/PCC Report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. If in the course of conducting an investigation under section 303, the investigative team finds reasonable cause to believe any official or employee referred to in subsection (a)(2)(D) of such section has breached the duty of such official or employee, or finds lesser failures on the part of an official or employee in the performance of his or her duties related to the serious security incident at issue, the investigative team shall report such to the SSII/PCC. If the SSII/PCC finds reasonable cause to support a finding relating to such a breach or failure, the SSII/PCC shall— notify the official or employee concerned; if such official or employee is employed by the Department of State, transmit to the Director General of the Foreign Service for appropriate action such finding, together with all information relevant to such finding; or if such official or employee is employed by a Federal agency other than the Department of State, transmit to the head of such Federal agency for appropriate action such finding, together with all information relevant to such finding. . The table of contents in section 2 of the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 is amended by striking the item relating to section 304 and inserting the following new item: Sec. 304. Serious Security Incident Investigation Permanent Coordinating Committee findings and report. .
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Findings and recommendations of the Serious Security Incident Investigation Permanent Coordinating Committee
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