Requires the Director of National Intelligence to make publicly available on an Internet website all documents captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operations Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, or Iraqi Freedom. Provides conditions under which the Director shall not be required to make a captured document publicly available, including providing a list of retained documents, and the criteria used for such retention, to the congressional intelligence committees.
[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4869 Introduced in House (IH)]
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 4869
To require the Director of National Intelligence to release documents
captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operation Desert Storm,
Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 2, 2006
Mr. Hoekstra introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)
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A BILL
To require the Director of National Intelligence to release documents
captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operation Desert Storm,
Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS CAPTURED IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
(a) In General.--The Director of National Intelligence shall make
publicly available on an Internet website all captured documents.
(b) Review by Director of National Intelligence.--The Director of
National Intelligence may review a captured document before making such
document publicly available under subsection (a). The Director shall
not be required to make a captured document publicly available under
subsection (a) if--
(1) in the case of a captured document that is reviewed by
the Director before the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Director submits to the relevant congressional committees a
description of the criteria the Director used to determine it
is not appropriate to make a captured document publicly
available and such captured document meets such criteria; or
(2) in the case of a captured document that is reviewed by
the Director on or after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Director submits to the relevant congressional committees a
description of the criteria the Director shall use to determine
if it is not appropriate to make a captured document publicly
available and the captured document meets such criteria.
(c) Submission of Description of Non-Released Documents.--
(1) Review before date of enactment.--Not later than 90
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director
of National Intelligence shall submit to the relevant
congressional committees a report containing--
(A) a description of each captured document that,
before such date, the Director determined should not be
made publicly available; and
(B) an explanation as to why the Director does not
consider it appropriate to make such captured document
publicly available.
(2) Review after date of enactment.--Not later than 30 days
after the Director of National Intelligence determines that a
captured document should not be made publicly available
pursuant to subsection (b)(2), the Director shall submit to the
relevant congressional committees a report containing a
description of such captured document and an explanation as to
why the Director does not consider it appropriate to make such
document publicly available.
(3) Request for document.--The Director of National
Intelligence shall make a copy of each captured document
available to the relevant congressional committees for review
upon request of the Chairman of any of such relevant
congressional committees. The Director shall make such copy
available in either classified or unclassified form.
(d) Publication or Review Date.--
(1) In general.--The Director of National Intelligence
shall begin making captured documents publicly available
pursuant to subsection (a) not later than 30 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act.
(2) Documents collected prior to date of enactment.--
(A) In general.--Not later than the date described
in subparagraph (B), for each captured document
captured or collected before the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence
shall make such captured document publicly available
pursuant to subsection (a) or shall submit to the
relevant congressional committees a report regarding
such captured document pursuant to subsection (c).
(B) Dates.--The date described in this subparagraph
is--
(i) September 30, 2006, for captured
documents captured or collected during
Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi
Freedom; and
(ii) March 31, 2007, for captured documents
captured or collected during Operation Desert
Storm.
(3) Documents collected after date of enactment.--For each
captured document that is captured or collected on or after the
date of the enactment of this Act, not later than 60 days after
the date on which such captured document is captured or
collected, the Director of National Intelligence shall make
such captured document publicly available pursuant to
subsection (a) or shall submit to the relevant congressional
committees a report regarding such captured document pursuant
to subsection (c).
(e) Weekly Report.--Not later than 7 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, and weekly thereafter until each captured
document captured or collected before the date of the enactment of this
Act is made publicly available pursuant to subsection (a) or described
in a report submitted pursuant to subsection (c), the Director of
National Intelligence shall submit to the relevant congressional
committees a report describing the progress in making captured
documents publicly available.
(f) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Captured document.--The term ``captured document''
means a document captured or collected in Afghanistan or Iraq,
including a document collected from the Government of Iraq or
from a private person and including a document in electronic
form, during Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring
Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
(2) Relevant congressional committees.--The term ``relevant
congressional committees'' means the Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
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