Sec. 6323. REPORT ON THE MISSION EFFECT OF CIVILIAN HARM

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## SEC. 6323 REPORT ON THE MISSION EFFECT OF CIVILIAN HARM ###

(a)Definition of Appropriate Congressional Committees In this section, the term “**appropriate congressional committees**” means— ####

(1)the congressional intelligence committees; ####

(2)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and ####

(3)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. ###

(b)Report Required 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 Secretary of Defense and 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. ###

(c)Matters The report under subsection

(b)shall include the following: ####

(1)The methodology of the intelligence community for measuring the effect of civilian harm. ####

(2)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. ####

(3)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. ####

(4)A framework to enable analysts to assess, as objectively as possible, the effect that civilian harm has had on other United States foreign policy goals, programs, and activities in any country where counterterrorism operations take place. ####

(5)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. ####

(6)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. ###

(d)Form The report under subsection

(b)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. # TITLE LXIV COUNTERING FOREIGN THREATS ## Subtitle A People’S Republic of China