Sec. 732. Mandatory counterintelligence risk assessments
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Subtitle E of title VIII of the National Security Act of 1947, as added by section 731, is amended by adding at the end the following: In this section, the term mishandling or unauthorized disclosure of classified information means any unauthorized storage, retention, communication, confirmation, acknowledgment, or physical transfer of classified information. The Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center shall prepare a written assessment of the risk to national security from any mishandling or unauthorized disclosure of classified information involving the conduct of the President, Vice President, or an official listed in Level I of the Executive Schedule under section 5312 of title 5, United States Code, within 90 days of the detection of such mishandling or unauthorized disclosure.
A written assessment prepared pursuant to subsection
(b)shall describe the risk to national security if the classified information were to be exposed in public or to a foreign adversary. Each written assessment prepared pursuant to subsection
(b)shall be submitted to Congress, in classified form, upon completion. . Section 832 of such Act, as added by subsection (a), shall apply to incidents of mishandling or unauthorized disclosure of classified information (as defined in such section) detected on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.