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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4869 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to release documents captured 
in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, Operation Endur-
ing Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2006 
Mr. HOEKSTRA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Select 
Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select) 
A BILL 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to release 
documents captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Oper-
ation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, or 
Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS CAPTURED IN IRAQ 
AND AFGHANISTAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of National Intel-
ligence shall make publicly available on an Internet 
website all captured documents. 
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(b) REVIEW
BY DIRECTOR
OF NATIONAL INTEL-
LIGENCE.—The Director of National Intelligence may re-
view a captured document before making such document 
publicly available under subsection (a). The Director shall 
not be required to make a captured document publicly 
available under subsection (a) if— 
(1) in the case of a captured document that is 
reviewed by the Director before the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Director submits to the rel-
evant congressional committees a description of the 
criteria the Director used to determine it is not ap-
propriate to make a captured document publicly 
available and such captured document meets such 
criteria; or 
(2) in the case of a captured document that is 
reviewed by the Director on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Director submits to the 
relevant congressional committees a description of 
the criteria the Director shall use to determine if it 
is not appropriate to make a captured document 
publicly available and the captured document meets 
such criteria. 
(c) SUBMISSION
OF
DESCRIPTION
OF
NON-RE-
LEASED DOCUMENTS.— 
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(1) REVIEW BEFORE DATE OF ENACTMENT.— 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Director of National Intel-
ligence shall submit to the relevant congressional 
committees a report containing— 
(A) a description of each captured docu-
ment that, before such date, the Director deter-
mined should not be made publicly available; 
and 
(B) an explanation as to why the Director 
does not consider it appropriate to make such 
captured document publicly available. 
(2) REVIEW AFTER DATE OF ENACTMENT.— 
Not later than 30 days after the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence determines that a captured docu-
ment should not be made publicly available pursuant 
to subsection (b)(2), the Director shall submit to the 
relevant congressional committees a report con-
taining a description of such captured document and 
an explanation as to why the Director does not con-
sider it appropriate to make such document publicly 
available. 
(3) REQUEST FOR DOCUMENT.—The Director 
of National Intelligence shall make a copy of each 
captured document available to the relevant congres-
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sional committees for review upon request of the 
Chairman of any of such relevant congressional com-
mittees. The Director shall make such copy available 
in either classified or unclassified form. 
(d) PUBLICATION OR REVIEW DATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of National In-
telligence shall begin making captured documents 
publicly available pursuant to subsection (a) not 
later than 30 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
(2) DOCUMENTS COLLECTED PRIOR TO DATE 
OF ENACTMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the date 
described in subparagraph (B), for each cap-
tured document captured or collected before the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director 
of National Intelligence shall make such cap-
tured document publicly available pursuant to 
subsection (a) or shall submit to the relevant 
congressional committees a report regarding 
such captured document pursuant to subsection 
(c). 
(B) DATES.—The date described in this 
subparagraph is— 
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(i) September 30, 2006, for captured 
documents captured or collected during 
Operation Enduring Freedom and Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom; and 
(ii) March 31, 2007, for captured doc-
uments captured or collected during Oper-
ation Desert Storm. 
(3) DOCUMENTS COLLECTED AFTER DATE OF 
ENACTMENT.—For each captured document that is 
captured or collected on or after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, not later than 60 days after the 
date on which such captured document is captured 
or collected, the Director of National Intelligence 
shall make such captured document publicly avail-
able pursuant to subsection (a) or shall submit to 
the relevant congressional committees a report re-
garding such captured document pursuant to sub-
section (c). 
(e) WEEKLY REPORT.—Not later than 7 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and weekly thereafter 
until each captured document captured or collected before 
the date of the enactment of this Act is made publicly 
available pursuant to subsection (a) or described in a re-
port submitted pursuant to subsection (c), the Director 
of National Intelligence shall submit to the relevant con-
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gressional committees a report describing the progress in 
making captured documents publicly available. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) CAPTURED
DOCUMENT.—The term ‘‘cap-
tured document’’ means a document captured or col-
lected in Afghanistan or Iraq, including a document 
collected from the Government of Iraq or from a pri-
vate person and including a document in electronic 
form, during Operation Desert Storm, Operation 
Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
(2) 
RELEVANT
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘relevant congressional commit-
tees’’ means the Permanent Select Committee on In-
telligence of the House of Representatives and Select 
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate. 
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