Sec. 443. Report on the mission effect of civilian harm
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence, acting through the National Intelligence Council and in coordination with the heads of the elements of the intelligence community determined appropriate by the Director, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report examining the extent to which civilian harm that occurs during counterterrorism operations informs analyses of the intelligence community on the mission success of campaigns to degrade, disrupt, or defeat foreign terrorist organizations. The report under subsection
(a)shall include the following: The methodology of the intelligence community for measuring the effect of civilian harm. The extent to which analysts of the intelligence community apply such methodology when assessing the degree to which a terrorist group is degraded, disrupted, or defeated. A framework to enable analysts to assess, as objectively as possible, the effect that civilian harm has had on the mission of degrading, disrupting, or defeating a terrorist group, or an explanation of why such framework cannot be generated. The extent to which dissenting opinions of analysts of the intelligence community are included or highlighted in final written products presented to senior policymakers of the United States. Recommendations to improve the quality of future intelligence community analyses by accounting for the effects of civilian harm on efforts to successfully degrade, disrupt, or defeat a foreign terrorist group. The report under subsection
(a)may be submitted in classified form, but if so submitted, the report shall include an unclassified summary of key findings that is consistent with the protection of intelligence sources and methods. The report under subsection
(a)shall include a classified annex that provides an inventory of the following: Collection gaps and challenges that may affect the analysis of the success or failure of campaigns against terrorist groups. Actions taken by the Director of National Intelligence to mitigate such gaps and challenges. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.