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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · S. 669 (Introduced in Senate) — To provide for the appropriate balance of empowering diplomats to pursue vital diplomatic goals and mitigating securi... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Encouraging expeditionary diplomacy

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Subsection
(b)of section 102 of the Diplomatic Security Act ( 22 U.S.C. 4801(b) ) is amended— by amending paragraph
(3)to read as follows: to promote strengthened security measures, institutionalize a culture of learning, and, in the case of apparent gross negligence or breach of duty, recommend the Director General of the Foreign Service investigate accountability for United States Government personnel with security-related responsibilities; ; by redesignating paragraphs
(4)and
(5)as paragraphs
(5)and (6), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following new paragraph: to support a culture of risk management, instead of risk avoidance, that enables to Department of State to pursue its vital goals with full knowledge that it is not desirable nor possible for the Department to avoid all risks; . Section 105(a) of the Diplomatic Security Act ( 22 U.S.C. 4804(a) ) is amended— by striking monthly briefings and inserting quarterly briefings ; and in paragraph (1)— by striking any plans to open or reopen a high risk, high threat post and inserting progress towards opening or reopening high risk, high threat posts, the risk to national security of the continued closure and remaining barriers to doing so ; in subparagraph (A), by striking the type and level of security threats such post could encounter and inserting the risk to national security of the post’s continued closure ; and in subparagraph (C), by inserting the type and level of security threats such post could encounter, and before security . tripwires
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