A bill to require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress classified dissent cables relating to the withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan.

Bill: 117-s-3681
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2022-02-17
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2022-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S788)

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Department of State to (1) submit to Congress any classified State Department cables or memos that express a dissenting opinion relating to the withdrawal of the U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan, and (2) make publicly available unclassified versions of such cables and memos.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3681 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 17, 2022 Mr. Thune (for himself, Mr. Risch , Mrs. Blackburn , Mr. Braun , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Cruz , Mr. Daines , Ms. Ernst , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , Mr. Hoeven , Mr. Rubio , Mr. Scott of South Carolina , Mr. Sullivan , and Mr. Wicker ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations A BILL To require the Secretary of State to submit to Congress classified dissent cables relating to the withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan.

1. Submission to Congress of dissent cables relating to withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan (a) Submission of classified dissent cables to Congress Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to Congress any classified Department of State cable or memo that expresses a dissenting recommendation or opinion with respect to the withdrawal of the United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan. (b) Public availability of unclassified dissent cables Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall make available to the public an unclassified version of any such cable or memo. (c) Protection of personally identifiable information The name and any other personally identifiable information of an author of a cable or memo referred to in subsection (a) shall be redacted before submission under that subsection or publication under subsection (b).