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handle is hein.crs/govejaf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional X ~ Research Service FY2023 Intelligence Authorization Act: Whistleblower Provisions October 7, 2022 Several provisions in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence-reported Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (S. 4503) would make changes to laws governing whistleblower protections and procedures in the 18 federal agencies and organizations authorized to conduct intelligence and intelligence-related activities, generally referred to as the intelligence community. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)- ordered reported the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (H.R. 8367), which would not make such changes. The provisions of S. 4503 are consistent with previous intelligence community whistleblowing legislation, which has evolved to add both greater protections for federal employees and contractors, and clarity on the process for making a complaint. Background Many experts see laws governing whistleblower protections and procedures in the intelligence community as attempts to strike a balance between encouraging individuals to come forward to report alleged wrongdoing and the need to protect classified information. Intelligence community whistleblower laws are codified in the following statutes: the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. §8H), which applies to the inspectors general of all intelligence community elements; the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Act of 1949, as amended (50 U.S.C. §3517); the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. §3033), which applies to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG); Title VI of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, as amended (50 U.S.C. §3234), which provides protections for whistleblowers making a lawful disclosure; and Title III of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, as amended (50 U.S.C. §3341), governing security clearances. Legislative Provisions S. 4503 includes provisions that would amend these statutes by: (1) expanding a whistleblower's access to Congress; (2) strengthening measures to protect classified information; (3) adding protections against disclosure of a whistleblower's identity as a reprisal for making a disclosure; (4) adding protections against revoking a whistleblower's security clearance in retaliation for making a disclosure; (5) expanding Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12029 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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