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SSCI MARKUP OF 2006 INTEL AUTHORIZATION ACT
The authority of the Director of National Intelligence over U.S. intelligence policy would be further consolidated under the 2006 intelligence authorization act as marked up by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Among other notable provisions, the new bill would assign authority to the DNI to manage access to human intelligence information (sec. 403), previously a function of the Director of Central Intelligence.
The bill would authorize defense intelligence officers to conduct intelligence "assessment contacts" within the United States without disclosing their own identity (sec. 431).
The bill would exempt "operational files" of the Defense IntelligenceAgency from the Freedom of Information Act (sec. 434). Such an exemption was rejected by a less compliant Congress when it was first requested by DIA in 2000.
The 2006 intelligence authorization act, S. 1803, as marked up by theSenate Intelligence Committee, is available here:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2005_cr/s1803.html
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