H. Rept. 113-310 - ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ACTIVITY of the HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE for the ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH CONGRESS113th Congress (2013-2014)
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113th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 113-310
_______________________________________________________________________
Union Calendar No. 228
ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ACTIVITY
of the
HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
for the
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
December 30, 2013.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on
the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
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House of Representatives,
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
Washington, DC, December 30, 2013.
Hon. Karen Haas,
Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
Dear Mrs. Haas: Pursuant to clause 1(d) of rule XI of the
Rules of the House of Representatives for the 113th Congress, I
present herewith a report entitled ``Annual Report on the
Activity of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
113th Congress.''
Sincerely,
Mike Rogers,
Chairman.
C O N T E N T S
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Letter of Transmittal............................................ III
Membership....................................................... 1
Jurisdiction..................................................... 2
Legislative and Oversight Activities............................. 2
Oversight Plan for the 113th Congress and Implementation and
Hearings Held Pursuant to Clause 2(n), (o), and (p) of House
Rule XI........................................................ 5
Appendix I--Part A: Committee Reports; Part B: Public Laws, Part
C: Committee Hearings & Briefings.............................. 6
Union Calendar No. 228
113th Congress Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1st Session 113-310
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ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ACTIVITY OF THE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON
INTELLIGENCE FOR THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH CONGRESS
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December 30, 2013.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on
the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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Mr. Rogers of Michigan, from the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, submitted the following
R E P O R T
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
FULL COMMITTEE LIST
C.A. DUTCH RUPPERSBERGER, Maryland, Ranking MemberMichigan, Chairman
MIKE THOMPSON, California MAC THORNBERRY, Texas
JANICE SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois JEFF MILLER, Florida
JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas
ADAM B. SCHIFF, California PETER T. KING, New York
LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois FRANK A. LoBIONDO, New Jersey
ED PASTOR, Arizona DEVIN NUNES, California
JAMES A. HIMES, Connecticut LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia
TERRI A. SEWELL, Alabama MICHELE BACHMANN, Minnesota
THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida
JOSEPH J. HECK, Nevada
MIKE POMPEO, Kansas
Darren M. Dick, Staff Director
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SUBCOMMITTEE LIST
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human Intelligence, Analysis, and
Counterintelligence
MIKE THOMPSON, California, K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas,
Ranking Member Chairman
LUIS V. GUTIERREZ, Illinois PETER T. KING, New York
JAMES A. HIMES, Connecticut FRANK A. LoBIONDO, New Jersey
DEVIN NUNES, California
THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida
Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence
ADAM B. SCHIFF, California, JOSEPH J. HECK, Nevada,
Ranking Member Chairman
JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island MAC THORNBERRY, Texas
TERRI A. SEWELL, Alabama FRANK LoBIONDO, New Jersey
MICHELE BACHMANN, Minnesota
MIKE POMPEO, Kansas
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
JANICE SCHAKOWSKY, Illinois, LYNN A. WESTMORELAND, Georgia,
Ranking Member Chairman
ED PASTOR, Arizona JEFF MILLER, Florida
JAMES A. HIMES, Connecticut MICHELE BACHMANN, Minnesota
THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida
MIKE POMPEO, Kansas
JURISDICTION AND SPECIAL OVERSIGHT FUNCTION
Clause 11(b)(1) of rule X of the Rules of the House of
Representatives for the 113th Congress sets forth the
jurisdiction of the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence--
(A) The Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of
National Intelligence, and the National Intelligence
Program as defined in section 3(6) of the National
Security Act of 1947.
(B) Intelligence and intelligence-related activities
of all other departments and agencies of the
Government, including the tactical intelligence and
intelligence-related activities of the Department of
Defense.
(C) The organization or reorganization of a
department or agency of the Government to the extent
that the organization or reorganization relates to a
function or activity involving intelligence or
intelligence-related activities.
(D) Authorizations for appropriations, both direct
and indirect, for the following:
(i) The Central Intelligence Agency, the
Director of National Intelligence, and the
National Intelligence Program as defined in
section 3(6) of the National Security Act of
1947.
(ii) Intelligence and intelligence-related
activities of all other departments and
agencies of the Government, including the
tactical intelligence and intelligence-related
activities of the Department of Defense.
(iii) A department, agency, subdivision, or
program that is a successor to an agency or
program named or referred to in (i) or (ii).
Clause 3(m) of rule X of the Rules of the House of
Representatives for the 113th Congress sets forth the Special
Oversight Function of the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence as follows--``The Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence shall review and study on a continuing basis laws,
programs, and activities of the intelligence community and
shall review and study on an exclusive basis the sources and
methods of entities described in clause 11(b)(1)(A).''
LEGISLATIVE AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES
During the first session of the 113th Congress, 35 bills or
resolutions were referred to the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, 20 of which related to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act. The Full Committee reported two measures to
the House, not including conference reports. No measures
regarding matters within the Committee's jurisdiction were
enacted into law.
The following is a summary of the legislative and oversight
activities of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
during the first year of the 113th Congress. In addition, this
report includes a summary of hearings held pursuant to clauses
2(n), (o), and (p) under House rule XI.
Legislative Activities
Full Committee
CYBER INTELLIGENCE SHARING AND PROTECTION ACT
(H.R. 624)
Summary
Over the past year, the Committee continued its oversight
of the advanced cyber threats facing the nation, as well as the
ongoing efforts to protect our nation and our economy from
these dangerous threats. The Committee focused in particular on
the state of cyber threat information sharing between the U.S.
government and private sector, as well as cyber information
sharing within the private sector. The threat from advanced
nation state cyber actors like China and Iran has only grown
since the Committee first began its review in the 112th
Congress. As the Committee continued its work in the 113th
Congress, a series of high profile press revelations concerning
Chinese government cyber economic espionage directed against
American companies and institutions, including major
newspapers, added urgency to our work. Further emphasis was
added by press revelations of state-sponsored cyber distributed
denial of service (DDoS) attacks against major American
financial institutions.
The Committee believes that immediate and serious action is
necessary to stanch the bleeding of American intellectual
capital and to better protect our national security. In
particular, the Committee believes that the Intelligence
Community must take immediate and decisive action to provide
intelligence to the private sector to help it better protect
itself. In turn, the private sector must act aggressively to
better monitor its own systems and to share information--both
within the private sector and with the federal government. The
Committee recognizes that because it focused on the issues
within its jurisdiction, this legislation does not address many
of the other issues facing the nation with respect to
cybersecurity. At the same time, however, the Committee firmly
believes that this legislation is an important step in the
effort to better protect the nation from advanced cyber threat
actors.
This Act enables cyber threat sharing within the private
sector and, on a purely voluntary basis, with the government;
all while providing strong privacy and civil liberties
protections. Voluntary sharing of cyber threat information like
network vulnerabilities, efforts to gain unauthorized network
access, and denial of service attacks helps improve the
government's ability to protect against foreign cyber threats.
Voluntary sharing also gives our intelligence agencies tips and
leads to help them find advanced foreign cyber hackers
overseas. This in turn allows the government to provide even
better cyber threat intelligence back to the private sector to
help it protect itself. The Act also provides the government
clear authority to grant security clearances to the employees
of private sector companies for cybersecurity threat sharing
and to share classified cyber threat information with those
companies.
Legislative History
H.R. 624 was introduced by Chairman Mike Rogers on February
13, 2013, and referred to the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.
On April 15, 2013, the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence held a business meeting to consider H.R. 624 and
ordered the bill reported to the House, as amended, by a
recorded vote, 18 ayes and 2 noes.
On April 16, 2013, the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence reported H.R. 624 to the House.
On April 18, 2013, the House considered H.R. 624 and passed
the bill by recorded vote, 288 ayes and 127 noes.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014
(H.R. 3381)
Summary
The annual intelligence authorization bill funds all U.S.
intelligence activities, spanning 16 separate agencies. It
provides authorization for critical national security
functions, including: CIA personnel and their activities
worldwide; tactical intelligence support to combat units in
Afghanistan; NSA's electronic surveillance and cyber defense;
global monitoring of foreign militaries, weapons tests, and
arms control treaties, including use of satellites and radars;
real-time analysis and reporting on political and economic
events, such as current events in the Middle East; and research
and technology to maintain the country's technological edge,
including work on code breaking, listening devices, and
reconnaissance satellites.
The Fiscal Year 2014 authorization bill is a critical tool
for oversight of the Intelligence Community. For too many
years, intelligence authorization negotiations were the victim
of partisan infighting and turf battles. Over the past two and
a half years, however, Congress broke out of that logjam by
passing three intelligence authorization bills that the
President signed into law. The Fiscal Year 2014 bill follows in
the path of those three bills to provide the Intelligence
Community the resources it needs to accomplish its demanding
mission of securing and defending America.
Legislative History
H.R. 3381 was introduced by Chairman Mike Rogers on October
30, 2013, and referred to the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence.
On November 21, 2013, the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence held a business meeting to consider H.R. 3381 and
ordered the bill reported to the House, as amended, by a voice
vote.
On November 25, 2013, the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence reported H.R. 3381 to the House.
OVERSIGHT PLAN FOR THE 113TH CONGRESS
Clause 1(d)(2)(E) of rule XI also requires that each
committee provide a delineation of any hearings held pursuant
to clauses 2(n), (o), or (p) of rule XI. Those clauses require
the committee, or a subcommittee thereof, to hold at least one
hearing on egregious instances of agency waste, fraud, abuse,
and mismanagement, at least one hearing on agency financial
statements, and one hearing on programs that, according to
reports issued by the Comptroller General of the United States,
are at high risk for waste, fraud, and mismanagement.
As part of the Committee's oversight and authorization of
the intelligence community budget, the Committee conducts
numerous classified hearings and briefings that focus on issues
of potential waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in federal
agencies. These Committee efforts result in the annual
intelligence authorization bill. That bill contains a detailed
classified annex on all intelligence community programs and
budgets. A review of potential waste, fraud, abuse, and
mismanagement within these programs is an inextricable part of
the development of the classified annex.
The Committee also conducted an extensive review of the
September 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted
in the deaths of four Americans. Specifically, the Committee
held numerous hearings with CIA, DOD, and DNI officials to
inquire into the intelligence warnings and intelligence
activities in eastern Libya prior to the attacks, the events on
the ground during the attacks, the fallout after the attacks,
and the Government's continued efforts to find the attackers.
The Committee has interviewed nine eyewitnesses who were in
Benghazi during the attacks and submitted document requests and
questions for the record to the CIA to clarify the timeline of
events and understand fully the activities of the Intelligence
Community before and during the attacks. Further, the Committee
has sought all available information to determine whether any
pressure or threats of retaliation were made against
intelligence professionals to persuade them against speaking to
members of Congress. The Committee has reviewed thousands of
pages of documents, including emails from the night of attack,
and hundreds of intelligence assessments. The Committee has
also compared on-the-record testimony with the Intelligence
Information Reports (IIRs) produced from FBI interviews of the
eyewitnesses. The Committee's oversight over the attacks in
Benghazi will continue until the terrorists who killed four
brave Americans are brought to justice.
NSA programs were another area of the Committee's focus
this year. The Committee reviews NSA programs on a continuing
basis to ensure that NSA provides effective signals
intelligence support against foreign intelligence targets, all
while respecting Americans' privacy and civil liberties.
Between June and December 2013, Committee Members participated
in 23 oversight events, both formal and informal, with the NSA,
and Committee staff participated in an additional 35 oversight
events.
APPENDIX I
PART A--COMMITTEE REPORTS
Reports filed with the House by the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence:
113-39: To Accompany H.R. 624, the Cyber Intelligence
Sharing and Protection Act.
113-277: To Accompany H.R. 3381, the Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014.
PART B--PUBLIC LAWS
No bills that contained matters within the jurisdiction of
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence were enacted
into law during the first session of the 113th Congress.
PART C--COMMITTEE HEARINGS AND BRIEFINGS
On January 14, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On January 23, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On February 4, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On February 13, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
business meeting.
On February 14, 2013, the Full Committee held an open
hearing on cyber threats.
On February 25, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On February 28, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On March 4, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On March 12, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On March 14, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
business meeting and a closed hearing.
On March 18, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On March 19, 2013, the Full Committee held two closed
briefings.
On March 21, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
hearing.
On April 10, 2013, the Full Committee held an open and
closed business meeting.
On April 11, 2013, the Full Committee held an open hearing
on worldwide threats.
On April 15, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
hearing.
On April 23, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
hearing.
On April 24, 2013, the Full Committee held two closed
briefings.
On April 25, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
hearing.
On May 6, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On May 16, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On May 20, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed briefing.
On May 22, 2013, the Full Committee held two closed
hearings.
On May 23, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On June 3, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed briefing.
On June 6, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed briefing
and a closed hearing.
On June 12, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On June 13, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On June 14, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On June 17, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On June 18, 2013, the Full Committee held an open hearing
on NSA programs.
On June 20, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On June 25, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On June 27, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On June 14, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On July 8, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On July 9, 2013, the Subcommittee on Terrorism, HUMINT,
Analysis, and Counterintelligence held a closed briefing.
On July 11, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On July 16, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On July 17, 2013, the Subcommittee on Terrorism, HUMINT,
Analysis, and Counterintelligence held a closed briefing.
On July 18, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed business
meeting and a closed hearing.
On July 19, 2013, the Subcommittee on Terrorism, HUMINT,
Analysis, and Counterintelligence held a closed hearing.
On July 22, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On July 25, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed hearing.
On July 30, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On September 9, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
joint briefing with the House Armed Services Committee.
On September 12, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On September 17, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On September 19, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
hearing.
On September 20, 2013, the Subcommittee on Technical and
Tactical Intelligence held a closed briefing.
On September 30, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On October 16, 2013, the Full Committee held an open
business meeting to consider Member access requests.
On October 22, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On October 28, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On October 29, 2013, the Full Committee held an open
hearing on NSA programs.
On October 30, 2013, the Subcommittee on Technical and
Tactical Intelligence held a closed briefing.
On November 12, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On November 13, 2013, the Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations held a closed briefing.
On November 14, 2013, the Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations held a closed briefing.
On November 18, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On November 19, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On November 19, 2013, the Subcommittee on Technical and
Tactical Intelligence held a closed briefing.
On November 21, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
business meeting.
On December 2, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
briefing.
On December 3, 2013, the Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations held a closed briefing.
On December 11, 2013, the Subcommittee on Technical and
Tactical Intelligence held a closed briefing.
On December 12, 2013, the Full Committee held a closed
hearing.
