POISE Act

Prevention and Oversight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act or the POISE Act

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that elements of the intelligence community are obligated to notify Congress upon discovering that an individual in the executive branch has disclosed, outside established intelligence channels, certain classified information to specified adversary foreign governments (North Korea, Iran, China, Russia, and Cuba).

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3476 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3476

   To express the sense of Congress that section 502 of the National 
   Security Act of 1947, together with other intelligence community 
   authorities, obligate an element of the intelligence community to 
      submit to the congressional intelligence committees written 
 notification, by not later than 7 days after becoming aware, that an 
  individual in the executive branch has disclosed covered classified 
  information to an official of an adversary foreign government using 
  methods other than established intelligence channels, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2019

Mrs. Murphy (for herself and Mr. Himes) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
   To express the sense of Congress that section 502 of the National 
   Security Act of 1947, together with other intelligence community 
   authorities, obligate an element of the intelligence community to 
      submit to the congressional intelligence committees written 
 notification, by not later than 7 days after becoming aware, that an 
  individual in the executive branch has disclosed covered classified 
  information to an official of an adversary foreign government using 
  methods other than established intelligence channels, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Prevention and Oversight of 
Intelligence Sharing with Enemies Act'' or the ``POISE Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NOTIFICATIONS OF CERTAIN DISCLOSURES OF 
              CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that section 502 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3092) requires elements of the 
intelligence community to keep the congressional intelligence 
committees ``fully and currently informed'' about all ``intelligence 
activities'' of the United States, and to ``furnish to the 
congressional intelligence committees any information or material 
concerning intelligence activities which is requested by either of the 
congressional intelligence committees in order to carry out its 
authorized responsibilities.''.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) section 502 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
        U.S.C. 3092), together with other intelligence community 
        authorities, obligate an element of the intelligence community 
        to submit to the congressional intelligence committees written 
        notification, by not later than 7 days after becoming aware, 
        that an individual in the executive branch has disclosed 
        covered classified information to an official of an adversary 
        foreign government using methods other than established 
        intelligence channels; and
            (2) each such notification should include--
                    (A) the date and place of the disclosure of 
                classified information covered by the notification;
                    (B) a description of such classified information;
                    (C) identification of the individual who made such 
                disclosure and the individual to whom such disclosure 
                was made; and
                    (D) a summary of the circumstances of such 
                disclosure.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Adversary foreign government.--The term ``adversary 
        foreign government'' means the government of any of the 
        following foreign countries:
                    (A) North Korea.
                    (B) Iran.
                    (C) China.
                    (D) Russia.
                    (E) Cuba.
            (2) Covered classified information.--The term ``covered 
        classified information'' means classified information that 
        was--
                    (A) collected by an element of the intelligence 
                community; or
                    (B) provided by the intelligence service or 
                military of a foreign country to an element of the 
                intelligence community.
            (3) Established intelligence channels.--The term 
        ``established intelligence channels'' means methods to exchange 
        intelligence to coordinate foreign intelligence relationships, 
        as established pursuant to law by the Director of National 
        Intelligence, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 
        the Director of the National Security Agency, or other head of 
        an element of the intelligence community.
            (4) Individual in the executive branch.--The term 
        ``individual in the executive branch'' means any officer or 
        employee of the executive branch, including individuals--
                    (A) occupying a position specified in article II of 
                the Constitution;
                    (B) appointed to a position by an individual 
                described in subparagraph (A); or
                    (C) serving in the civil service or the senior 
                executive service (or similar service for senior 
                executives of particular departments or agencies).
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