A bill to require the Director of National Intelligence to provide notification to Congress of abandoned United States military equipment used in terrorist attacks.

Bill: 117-s-3657
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2022-02-16
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2022-02-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence. (text: CR S754)

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-16
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to report to Congress if an intelligence community element determines that U.S. military equipment left unsecured in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria has been used in a terrorist attack against the United States, U.S. allies or partners, or local populations. The report must be submitted no later than 30 days after the intelligence community determination.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3657 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 16, 2022 Mr. Thune (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn , Mr. Cramer , Mr. Cotton , Mr. Cruz , Mr. Daines , Ms. Ernst , Mr. Hoeven , Mrs. Hyde-Smith , Mr. Sullivan , and Mr. Braun ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence A BILL To require the Director of National Intelligence to provide notification to Congress of abandoned United States military equipment used in terrorist attacks.

1. Notification of abandoned United States military equipment used in terrorist attacks (a) In general Not later than 30 days after any element of the intelligence community (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )) determines that United States military equipment abandoned or otherwise left unsecured in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria has been used in a terrorist attack against the United States, allies or partners of the United States, or local populations, the Director of National Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a written notification of such determination that includes any known details relating to— (1) the equipment used in the attack; (2) the date on which, and the location from which, the equipment left United States custody; (3) attribution for the orchestrators of the attack; and (4) the total number of deaths and casualties caused by the attack. (b) Appropriate committees of congress defined In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.