Calendar No. 244 113TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! 1st Session SENATE 113–120 INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 NOVEMBER 13, 2013.—Ordered to be printed Mrs. FEINSTEIN, from the Select Committee on Intelligence, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany S. 1681] The Select Committee on Intelligence, having considered an original bill (S. 1681) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government and the Office of the Director of Na- tional Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, reports favorably there- on and recommends that the bill do pass. CLASSIFIED ANNEX TO THE COMMITTEE REPORT On June 27, 2013, acting pursuant to Section 364 of the Intel- ligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111– 259), the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) publicly disclosed that the President’s aggregate request for the National Intelligence Program (NIP) for Fiscal Year 2014 is $52.2 billion. Other than for limited unclassified appropriations, primarily the Intelligence Com- munity Management Account, the classified nature of United States intelligence activities precludes any further disclosure, in- cluding by the Committee, of the details of its budgetary rec- ommendations. Accordingly, the Committee has prepared a classi- fied annex to this report that contains a classified Schedule of Au- thorizations. The classified Schedule of Authorizations is incor- porated by reference in the Act and has the legal status of public law. The classified annex is made available to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives and to the President. It is also available for review by any Member of 39–010 VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:15 Nov 15, 2013 Jkt 039010 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\SR120.XXX SR120 pwalker on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with REPORTS 2 the Senate subject to the provisions of Senate Resolution 400 of the 94th Congress (1976). SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS AND EXPLANATION The following is a section-by-section analysis and explanation of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 that is being reported by the Committee. TITLE I—BUDGET AND PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS Section 101. Authorization of appropriations Section 101 lists the United States Government departments, agencies, and other elements for which the Act authorizes appro- priations for intelligence and intelligence-related activities for Fis- cal Year 2014. Section 102. Classified Schedule of Authorizations Section 102 provides that the details of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for intelligence and intelligence-related activi- ties and the applicable personnel levels by program for Fiscal Year 2014 are contained in the classified Schedule of Authorizations and that the classified Schedule of Authorizations shall be made avail- able to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives and to the President. Section 103. Personnel ceiling adjustments Section 103 is intended to provide additional flexibility to the DNI in managing the civilian personnel of the Intelligence Commu- nity (IC). Section 103(a) provides that the DNI may authorize em- ployment of civilian personnel in Fiscal Year 2014 in excess of the number of authorized positions by an amount not exceeding three percent of the total limit applicable to each IC element under Sec- tion 102. The DNI may do so only if necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Section 103(b) requires the DNI to establish guidelines that would ensure a uniform and accurate method of counting certain personnel under a system of personnel levels. The DNI has issued such a policy. Subsection (b) confirms in statute the obligation of the DNI to establish these guidelines. Section 103(c) provides that the DNI must report the decision to allow an IC element to exceed the personnel ceiling in advance to the congressional intelligence committees. Section 104. Intelligence Community Management Account Section 104 authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Com- munity Management Account (ICMA) of the DNI and sets the au- thorized personnel levels for the elements within the ICMA for Fis- cal Year 2014. Subsection (a) authorizes appropriations of $568,736,000 for Fis- cal Year 2014 for the activities of the ICMA. Subsection (b) author- izes 855 positions for elements within the ICMA for Fiscal Year 2014 and provides that such personnel may be permanent employ- ees of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) or detailed from other elements of the United States Government. VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:15 Nov 15, 2013 Jkt 039010 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\SR120.XXX SR120 pwalker on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with REPORTS 3 Subsection (c) authorizes additional appropriations and positions for the classified Community Management Account as specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations and permits the funding for advanced research and development to remain available through September 30, 2015. TITLE II—CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY SYSTEM Section 201. Authorization of appropriations Section 201 authorizes appropriations in the amount of $514,000,000 for Fiscal Year 2014 for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Retirement and Disability Fund. Section 202. CIARDS and FERS special retirement credit for service on detail to another agency Section 202 amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act to clarify that ‘‘qualifying service’’ for purposes of obtaining cer- tain enhanced retirement benefits available to CIA employees who carry out duties abroad that are hazardous to life or health or in- volve specialized skills includes service while on detail to another government agency. CIA recently informed the Committee that a number of Agency employees on detail to other intelligence agencies who otherwise qualify for enhanced retirement benefits, and had been advised by prior CIA leadership that they were entitled to those additional benefits, would be denied the enhanced benefits because the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency Retirement Act does not extend such bene- fits to CIA employees on detail to another intelligence agency. Sec- tion 202 corrects this inequity by clarifying that ‘‘qualifying serv- ice’’ includes service on detail to another agency. TITLE III—GENERAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MATTERS SUBTITLE A—GENERAL MATTERS Section 301. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities Section 301 provides that the authorization of appropriations by the Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity that is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Section 302. Increase in employee compensation and benefits au- thorized by law Section 302 provides that funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act for salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits for federal employees may be increased by such additional or supplemental amounts as may be necessary for increases in compensation or ben- efits authorized by law. Section 303. OPEN FOIA protections Section 303 amends Section 103H of the National Security Act, the organic statute for the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, to provide that the identity of an individual who makes a complaint or provides information may be withheld in re- sponse to a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:15 Nov 15, 2013 Jkt 039010 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\SR120.XXX SR120 pwalker on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with REPORTS 4 Under FOIA, information may be withheld in response to a FOIA request pursuant to a statute that requires that matters be with- held from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion, or establishes criteria for withholding information or referring to particular types of matters to be withheld and specifically cites to FOIA. The OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 (PL 111–83, sec. 564, October 28, 2009) requires that a statute providing an exemption from dis- closure under FOIA, if enacted after the date of enactment of the OPEN FOIA Act of 2009, must specifically cite Section 552(b)(3) of Title 5, United States Code. The organic statute for the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (PL 111–259, sec. 405) was enacted at a later date, October 7, 2010. Accordingly, while Title 5 Inspectors General may exercise this authority without a ref- erence to Section 552(b)(3), the OPEN FOIA Act requires that the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community’s statute have a specific reference to Section 552(b)(3), as amended by the OPEN FOIA Act, to be operative. Section 303 provides the necessary ref- erence. Section 304. Functional managers Section 304(a) codifies in statute the existing requirement, under Section 1.3 of Executive order 12333, to designate functional man- agers for signals intelligence (SIGINT), human intelligence (HUMINT), and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), and other intel- ligence disciplines. At present, the functional managers for SIGINT, HUMINT, and GEOINT are the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Director of the CIA, and the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), respectively. In addition, Section 304(a) gives responsibility for designating func- tional managers to the President. Under Executive order 12333, the functional managers are designated by the DNI. Section