[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4958 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 4958
To require a declassification review of certain investigation documents
concerning foreign support for the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 6, 2021
Mr. Jeffries (for himself and Mr. Pascrell) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned
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A BILL
To require a declassification review of certain investigation documents
concerning foreign support for the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001, 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 ``September 11 Transparency Act of
2021''.
SEC. 2. DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW OF CERTAIN INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTS
CONCERNING FOREIGN SUPPORT FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS OF
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.
(a) Declassification Reviews, Publication, and Report.--The
Director of National Intelligence, the Attorney General, and the
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency shall--
(1) in accordance with subsection (b), complete
declassification reviews--
(A) not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, of--
(i) the subfile investigation described in
chapter V of the 2015 Final Report of the
Congressionally-directed 9/11 Review
Commission;
(ii) any subfile or separate investigation
of any subject of the subfile investigation
described in clause (i);
(iii) any counterintelligence investigation
involving any subject of the subfile
investigation described in clause (i); and
(iv) any PENTTBOM records referring or
relating to any subject of the subfile
investigation described in clause (i); and
(B) not later than 20 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, of the April 2016 Review Report
concerning the subfile investigation described in
subparagraph (A)(i);
(2) not later than 20 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act, make available to the public any information
declassified as a result of a declassification review completed
under paragraph (1)(B); and
(3) not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act--
(A) make available to the public any information
declassified as a result of the declassification
reviews completed under paragraph (1)(A); and
(B) submit to the congressional intelligence
committees (as defined in section 3 of the National
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) a report on the
results of the declassification reviews completed under
paragraph (1), including a justification for each
decision not to declassify a document, record, or
information pursuant to such reviews.
(b) Review Procedures.--
(1) Oversight and responsibility.--The declassification
reviews required by subsection (a)(1) shall be overseen by the
Director of National Intelligence, who shall ensure that
documents and information are declassified to the fullest
extent possible under applicable provisions of law, except
that--
(A) the Attorney General shall have primary
responsibility for conducting the declassification
reviews required by subsection (a)(1) with respect to
documents and information that originated with the
Department of Justice;
(B) the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
shall have primary responsibility for conducting the
declassification reviews required by such subsection
with respect to documents and information that
originated with the Central Intelligence Agency; and
(C) the Director of National Intelligence shall
have primary responsibility for conducting the
declassification reviews required by such subsection
with respect to all other documents and information not
described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
(2) Additional requirements.--Upon the completion of the
declassification reviews under subsection (a)(1), the Director
of National Intelligence shall, independently, ensure that, as
to all documents and information subject to the reviews but not
declassified pursuant to the reviews--
(A) such documents and information meet 6 the
requirements for classification;
(B) all nonclassified information is disentangled
and, to the extent practicable, made available to the
public; and
(C) all documents and information are nonetheless
declassified where the Federal Government's interest in
classification is outweighed by the public interest in
disclosure and transparency.
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