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DOMESTIC SECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2003
SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS
Title I: Enhancing National Security
Authorities
Subtitle A: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Amendments
Section 101: Individual Terrorists as Foreign Powers.
Under 50 U.S.C. § 1801(a)(4), the definition of "foreign
power" includes groups that engage in international terrorism, but
does not reach unaffiliated individuals who do so. As a result,
investigations of "lone wolf" terrorists or "sleeper cells" may not
be authorized under FISA. Such investigations therefore must
proceed under the stricter standards and shorter time periods set
forth in Title III, potentially resulting in unnecessary and
dangerous delays and greater administrative burden. This provision
would expand FISA's definition of "foreign power" to include
all persons, regardless of whether they are affiliated
with an international terrorist group, who engage in international
terrorism.
Section 102: Clandestine Intelligence Activities by Agent of a
Foreign Power.
FISA currently defines "agent of a foreign power" to include a
person who knowingly engages in clandestine intelligence gathering
activities on behalf of a foreign power--but only if those
activities "involve or may involve a violation of" federal criminal
law. Requiring the additional showing that the intelligence
gathering violates the laws of the United States is both
unnecessary and counterproductive, as such activities threaten the
national security regardless of whether they are illegal. This
provision would expand the definitions contained in 50 U.S.C.
§ 1801(b)(2)(A) & (B). Any person who engages in
clandestine intelligence gathering activities for a foreign power
would qualify as an "agent of a foreign power," regardless of
whether those activities are federal crimes.
Section 103: Strengthening Wartime Authorities Under FISA.
Under 50 U.S.C. §§ 1811, 1829 & 1844, the Attorney
General may authorize, without the prior approval of the FISA
Court, electronic surveillance, physical searches, or the use of
pen registers for a period of 15 days following a congressional
declaration of war. This wartime exception is unnecessarily narrow;
it may be invoked only when Congress formally has declared war, a
rare event in the nation's history and something that has not
occurred in more than sixty years. This provision would expand
FISA's wartime exception by allowing the wartime exception
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to be invoked after Congress authorizes the use of military
force, or after the United States has suffered an attack creating
an national emergency.
Section 104: Strengthening FISA's Presidential Authorization
Exception.
50 U.S.C. § 1802 allows the Attorney General to authorize
electronic surveillance for up to a year, without the FISA Court's
prior approval, in two narrow circumstances: (1) if the
surveillance is are directed solely at communications between
foreign powers; or (2) if the surveillance is directed solely at
the acquisition of technical intelligence, other than spoken
communications, from property under the exclusive control of a
foreign power. In addition, the Attorney General must certify that
there is no substantial likelihood that such surveillance will
acquire the communications of U.S. persons. (In essence, §
1802 authorizes the surveillance of communications between foreign
governments, and between a foreign government and its embassy.)
Section 1802 is of limited use, however, because it explicitly
prohibits efforts to acquire spoken communications. (No such
limitation exists in the parallel exception for physical searches,
50 U.S.C. § 1822(a), under which agents presumably could
infiltrate a foreign power's property for the purpose of
overhearing conversations.) This provision would enhance the
presidential authorization exception by eliminating the requirement
that electronic surveillance cannot be directed at the spoken
communications of foreign powers.
Section 105: Law Enforcement Use of FISA Information.
50 U.S.C. § 1806(b) currently prohibits the disclosure of
information "for law enforcement purposes" unless the disclosure
includes a statement that the information cannot be used in a
criminal proceeding without the Attorney General's advance
authorization. This provision would amend § 1806(b) to give
federal investigators and prosecutors greater flexibility to use
FISA-obtained information. Specifically, it would eliminate the
requirement that the Attorney General personally approve the use of
such information in the criminal context, and would substitute a
requirement that such use be approved by the Attorney General, the
Deputy Attorney General, the Associate Attorney General, or an
Assistant Attorney General designated by the Attorney General.
Section 106: Defense of Reliance on Authorization.
50 U.S.C. § 1809(b) and 1827(b) create a defense for agents
who engage in unauthorized surveillance or searches, or who
disclose information without authorization, if they were relying on
an order issued by the FISA Court. However, there does not appear
to be a statutory defense for agents who engage in surveillance or
searches pursuant to FISA authorities under which no prior court
approval is required--e.g., pursuant to FISA's wartime exception
(50 U. S.C. §§ 1811, 1829 & 1844), or FISA's
presidential authorization exception (50 U.S.C. § 1802 &
1822(a)). This provision would clarify that the "good faith
reliance" defense is available, not just when
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agents are acting pursuant to a FISA Court order, but also when
they are acting pursuant to a lawful authorization from the
President or the Attorney General.
Section 107: Pen Registers in FISA Investigations.
50 U.S.C. § 1842(a)(1) makes FISA pen registers available
in investigations of non-U.S. persons to "obtain foreign
intelligence information." But for U.S. persons, the standard is
much higher: in cases involving U.S. persons, pen registers are
only available "to protect against international terrorism or
clandestine intelligence activities." Perversely, this appears to
be stricter than the standard for pen registers under Title III,
which requires only that it be shown that the information "is
relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." 18 U.S.C. §
3123(a)(1). This provision would amend § 1842(a)(1) by
eliminating the stricter standard for U.S. persons. Specifically,
FISA pen registers would be available in investigations of both
U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons whenever they could be used "to
obtain foreign intelligence information."
Section 108: Appointed Counsel in Appeals to FISA Court of
Review.
Under FISA, proceedings before the FISA Court and the Court of
Review are conducted ex parte. As a result, when the Court of
Review meets to consider an appeal by the United States, there is
no party to defend the judgment of the court below. The FISA Court
of Review thus is obliged to interpret sensitive and complicated
statutes without the benefit of the adversary process. This
provision would amend FISA to permit the FISA Court of Review, in
its discretion, to appoint a lawyer, with appropriate security
credentials, to defend the judgment of the FISA Court, when the
United States appeals a ruling to the FISA Court of Review. It
would also provide for the compensation of a lawyer so appointed by
the FISA Court of Review.
Sec. 109: Enforcement of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court Orders.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not specify the
means for enforcement of orders issued by the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court. Thus, for example, if a person refuses to
comply with an order of the court to cooperate in the installation
of a pen register or trap and trace device under 50 U.S.C. §
1842(d), or an order to produce records under 50 U.S.C. §
1861, existing law provides no clearly defined recourse to secure
compliance with the court's order. This section remedies this
omission by providing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court has the same authority as a United States district court to
enforce its orders, including the authority to impose contempt
sanctions in case of disobedience.
Sec. 110: Technical Correction Related to the USA PATRIOT
Act.
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Section 204 of the USA PATRIOT Act clarified that intelligence
exceptions from the limitations on interception and disclosure of
wire, oral, and electronic communications continue to apply,
notwithstanding section 216 of the Act. Section 224 sunsetted
several provisions of the Act on December 31, 2005. Although
section 216 was not included in the sunset provision, section 204's
clarifying language was sunsetted. If not corrected, this anomaly
will result in the loss of valuable and necessary intelligence
exemptions to the pen register and trap and trace provisions after
December 31, 2005. This provision would eliminate this anomaly and
treat the clarifying language of section 204 the same as section
216.
Sec. 111. International Terrorist Organizations as Foreign
Powers.
Groups engaged in international terrorism are included under the
definition of "foreign power" in FISA. See 50 U.S.C. §
1801(a)(4). However, for certain purposes--including the duration
of surveillance orders and the definition of what constitutes a
"United States person"--they are effectively excluded from the
concept of foreign powers, and accorded the more protected
treatment that FISA provides to other entities. This section amends
FISA so that international terrorist organizations are consistently
treated as foreign powers for these purposes.
More specifically, there are basically two sets within the FISA
definition of "foreign power" under 50 U.S.C. § 1801(a): (i) A
paragraph (1)-(3) set, which includes foreign governments, foreign
factions, and entities that foreign governments openly acknowledge
they direct and control. (ii) A paragraph (4)-(6) set, which
includes groups engaged in international terrorism or preparations
therefor, foreign-based political organizations not substantially
composed of U.S. persons, and entities directed and controlled by
foreign governments.
50 U.S.C. §§ 1805(e) and 1824(d) define the
authorization periods for electronic surveillance and physical
searches under FISA. The basic authorization and extension periods
are 90 days, but longer for surveillance and searches relating to
certain foreign powers. Specifically, the authorization and
extension periods for foreign powers in the paragraph (1)(3)
set--foreign governments, foreign factions, and entities for which
foreign governments openly acknowledge direction and control--are
up to a year. In contrast, for foreign powers in the paragraph
(4)-(6) set--international terrorist organizations, foreign-base
political organizations not substantially composed of U.S. persons,
and entities directed and controlled by foreign governments--the
initial authorization period is no more than 90 days. The extension
period for foreign powers in the paragraph (4)-(6) set is also no
more than 90 days, unless certain restrictions and special finding
requirements are satisfied. (Specifically, the extension period may
be up to a year for an order relating to a foreign-based political
organization not substantially composed of U.S. persons or an order
relating to an entity directed and controlled by a foreign
government, and up to a year for an order relating to an
international terrorist organization that is not a U.S. person, if
the judge finds probable cause to believe that no communication or
property of any individual U.S. person will be acquired.)
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Another context in which different types of "foreign powers" are
treated differently is the FISA definition of "United States
person." United States persons have a more protected status under
FISA for certain purposes, such as dissemination of information.
The existing definition of "United States person" in 50 U.S.C.
§ 1801(i) categorically excludes a corporation or association
which is a foreign power--but only if it falls in the paragraph
(1)-(3) set.
The effect of the foregoing provisions is that, even if probable
cause is established that a group is an international terrorist
organization, it may be subject only to brief periods of
surveillance absent renewal, and it may be accorded the protected
status of a United States person. The amendments in this section
will facilitate the investigation of threats to the national
security posed by such groups by reassigning them to the less
protected status now accorded to foreign powers in the paragraph
(1)-(3) set. Thus, the normal authorization and extension periods
for surveillance of international terrorist organizations would be
up to a year, and corporations and associations which are
international terrorist organizations would not be treated as
United States persons under FISA.
Subtitle B: Enhancement of Law Enforcement
Investigative Tools
Section 121: Definition of Terrorist Activities.
This section adds a definition of "terrorist activities" to the
definitional section for the chapter of the criminal code governing
electronic surveillance (chapter 119). The definition encompasses
criminal acts of domestic and international terrorism as defined in
18 U.S.C. § 2331, together with related preparatory, material
support, and criminal activities. The same definition of terrorist
activities would also apply through cross-referencing provisions,
see 18 U.S.C. § 2711(1) and 3127(1) (as amended), in
the chapters of the criminal code that govern accessing stored
communications and the use of pen registers and trap and trace
devices (chapters 121 and 206).
The surveillance chapters of the criminal code contain many
provisions which state that the authorized surveillance activities
may be carried out as part of "criminal investigations." Section
121 also adds a provision to 18 U.S.C. § 2510 which specifies
that "criminal investigations" include all investigations of
criminal terrorist activities, to make it clear that the full range
of authorized surveillance techniques are available in
investigations of "terrorist activities" under the new
definition.
Section 122: Inclusion of Terrorist Activities as Surveillance
Predicates.
This section adds terrorist activities, as defined under the
amendment of section 121, and four specific offenses that are
likely to be committed by terrorists (the offenses defined by 18
U.S.C. § 37, 930(c), 956, and 1993), as explicit predicates
for electronic surveillance and monitoring. It further adds an
explicit reference to terrorist activities to the provision
authorizing electronic
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surveillance without a court order in emergency situations--18
U.S.C. § 2518(7)--and makes conforming changes in the
corresponding provision (18 U.S.C. § 3125) for using pen
registers and trap and trace devices without a court order in
emergency situations.
The final subsection of this section modifies the definition of
"court of competent jurisdiction" in 18 U.S.C. § 3127(2), to
correct an unintended effect of amendments in sections 216(c)(1)
and 220 of the USA PATRIOT Act. The purpose of the amendments was
to authorize courts having jurisdiction over an offense to issue
orders for pen registers and trap and trace devices, and search
warrants for the disclosure of e-mails, which could be executed
outside of their districts. However, the language utilized
inadvertently created a lack of clarity concerning the continued
validity of the pre-existing authority of the courts to issue such
orders and warrants for execution within their own districts
(regardless of whether they have "jurisdiction over the
offense").
This threatens to be a serious practical problem when
information gathering in the United States is needed in response to
requests by foreign law enforcement agencies to assist in foreign
terrorism (or other criminal investigations) and to fulfill the
United States' obligations under mutual legal assistance treaties,
and in the context of investigations relating to crimes committed
on U.S. military bases abroad, because in those cases the U.S.
courts generally do not have jurisdiction over the offense. This
section corrects the problem in relation to pen register and trap
and trace orders through definitional language that explicitly
includes both a court with jurisdiction over the offense or
activities being investigated, and a court in the district in which
the order will be executed. A parallel correction for the problem
relating to search warrants for e-mails appears in section 125(b)
of this bill.
Section 123: Extension of Authorized Periods Relating to
Surveillance and Searches in Investigations of Terrorist
Activities.
In Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), the
Supreme Court held for the first time that government wiretapping
was subject to the Fourth Amendment. In response, Congress enacted
Title III of the 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act,
28 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2522, which governs electronic
surveillance for all federal criminal offenses. Congress also
subsequently enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712, which addresses
government access to stored communications, and established
statutory standards and procedures for the use of pen registers and
trap and trace devices, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3121-3127. Further,
because Katz and progeny specifically stated that the Court
did not hold that the same Fourth Amendment restrictions applied
with respect to the activities of foreign powers and their agents,
in 1978 Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
50 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1862, which establishes standards
applicable to surveillance of foreign powers and agents of foreign
powers--including electronic surveillance, physical searches, and
use of pen registers and trap and trace devices--in relation to the
investigation of such matters as international terrorism and
espionage.
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Congress has not provided separate statutory standards governing
investigations of wholly domestic threats to the national security,
particularly domestic terrorism. Thus, such investigations are
subject to the time limits set forth in Title III. However, the
Supreme Court in United States v. United States District Court
("Keith"), 407 U.S. 297 (1972), explicitly recognized that
domestic security investigations would require different standards
than those set forth in Title III:
"We recognize that domestic security surveillance may
involve different policy and practical considerations from the
surveillance of 'ordinary crime.' The gathering of security
intelligence is often long range and involves the interrelation of
various sources and types of information. The exact targets of such
surveillance may be more difficult to identify than in surveillance
operations against many types of crime specified in Title III.
Often, too, the emphasis of domestic intelligence gathering is on
the prevention of unlawful activity or the enhancement of the
Government's preparedness for some possible future crisis or
emergency. Thus, the focus of domestic surveillance may be less
precise than that directed against more conventional types of
crime."
Id. at 322. Because domestic security investigations were
subject to Title III, despite these considerations, the Court
invited Congress to legislate new and different standards for such
investigations:
"Given [the] potential distinctions between Title III
criminal surveillances and those involving the domestic security,
Congress may wish to consider protective standards for the latter
which differ from those already prescribed for specified crimes in
Title III. Different standards may be compatible with the Fourth
Amendment if they are reasonable both in relation to the legitimate
need of Government for intelligence information and the protected
rights of our citizens."
Id.
In Keith, the court noted that, with respect to
surveillance in domestic security cases, "the time and reporting
requirements need not be so strict as those in § 2518."
Id. at 323. This section accepts the Court's invitation and
extends, in investigations of terrorist activities, a number of
statutory time limits or periods relating to electronic
surveillance or monitoring and searches. The specific changes
are:
(1) Amend 18 U.S.C. § 2518(5) to extend the normal duration
of electronic surveillance orders in investigations of terrorist
activities from 30 days to 90 days.
(2) Amend 18 U.S.C. § 2518(6), which provides that an
electronic surveillance order may require periodic progress reports
to the judge who issued the order "at such intervals as
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the judge may require." As amended, the provision would not
allow reports to be required at shorter intervals than 30 days in
investigations of terrorist activities.
(3) Amend 18 U.S.C. § 2705, which permits delaying
notification concerning the accessing of a person's stored
electronic communications where specified "adverse results" would
result from the notification. As amended, the provision would
include endangerment of the national security as a specified
adverse result that permits delaying notification.
(4) Amend 18 U.S.C. § 3123 to extend the normal
authorization periods for pen registers and trap and trace devices
in investigations of terrorist activities from 60 days to 120
days.
Section 124: Multi-function Devices
Electronic manufacturers increasingly are producing devices that
are capable of performing multiple functions--e.g., cell phones
that also can send e-mail like a Blackberry, and that include a
calendar like a Palm Pilot. Multiple functions are also illustrated
by ordinary home computers, which may, for example, be used to send
and receive e-mail messages, to engage in oral communications
through an Internet phone service, to store sent and received
messages, and to store other information. Current law does not make
it clear that the authorization (e.g., under an electronic
surveillance order) to monitor one of a device's functions also
entails the authority to monitor other functions.
This section accordingly amends 18 U.S.C. § 2518(4) to make
it clear that authorization of electronic surveillance with respect
to a device, unless otherwise specified, may be relied on to
intercept and access communications through any of the device's
functions. The section also effectively allows a search warrant for
other information retrievable from the device (whether or not
related to the intercepted communications) to be combined with the
electronic surveillance order, and makes conforming changes in the
chapters relating to accessing stored communications and pen
registers and trap and trace devices.
The section further incorporates a correction for an unintended
consequence of amendments in section 220 of the USA PATRIOT Act. As
discussed in relation to section 122 of the bill above, amendments
designed to authorize courts having jurisdiction over an offense to
issue search warrants for the disclosure of e-mails outside of
their districts have inadvertently clouded the pre-existing
authority of the courts to issue such orders and warrants for
execution within their own districts. This section corrects the
problem by amending the pertinent language in 18 U.S.C. §
2703(b)(1)(A) and (c)(1)(A) to refer to a court in a district in
which a provider of electronic communications service is located,
as well as a court having jurisdiction over the offense or
activities under investigation.
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Section 125: Nationwide Search Warrants in Terrorism
Investigations.
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(a)(3) currently authorizes
judges in one district to issue search warrants that are valid in
another district, if the crime being investigated is "domestic
terrorism or international terrorism" as defined in 18 U.S.C.
§ 2331. But § 2331 sets forth an extremely narrow
definition of terrorism, as it is limited to "violent acts or acts
dangerous to human life." Thus section 2331 arguably does not
include investigations into terrorist financing, or other crimes
that terrorists are likely to commit. As a result, a federal judge
sitting in New York would be able to issue a search warrant that is
valid in California in an investigation of a plot to bomb a
building, but arguably could not issue the same warrant if the
investigation concerned the raising of money to support terrorist
operations.
This provision would expand the types of terrorism crimes for
which judges may issue search warrants that are valid nationwide.
Specifically, it would authorize nationwide search warrants in
investigations of the offenses listed in 18 U.S.C. §
2332b(g)(5)(B), including computer crimes, attacks on
communications infrastructure, and providing material support to
terrorists or terrorist organizations.
Section 126: Equal Access to Consumer Credit Reports.
In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that law
enforcement investigators need access to suspected terrorists'
banking information to determine their connections to terrorist
organizations, including financial ties. The current version of 15
U.S.C. § 1681b(a)(1) allows investigators to obtain a
suspect's credit report-the first step in locating his banking
recordsonly in response to a court order or a federal grand jury
subpoena. As a result, law enforcement cannot obtain a suspect's
banking information without issuing multiple timeconsuming
subpoenas. In some cases, it can take a series of three
subpoenas--first to the credit reporting agency, then to the
suspect's creditors, then to the suspect's banks--and a period of
nine to 12 weeks to learn where a suspected terrorist keeps his
accounts. Perversely, the law makes it far easier for private
entities to obtain an individual's credit reports; under 15 U.S.C.
§ 1681b(a)(3)(F), a private entity can obtain--usually within
minutes--a credit report on anyone in the United States so long as
it has a "legitimate business need" for the information.
This provision would enable the government to obtain credit
reports on virtually the same terms that private entities may.
Specifically, it would amend § 1681b(a)(1) to allow law
enforcement officers to obtain credit reports upon their
certification that they will use the information only in connection
with their duties to enforce federal law. This certification
parallels the existing requirement that a private entity must have
a "legitimate business need" before obtaining a credit report. In
addition, to avoid alerting terrorists that they are under
investigation, this provision would prohibit (absent court
approval) disclosing to a consumer the fact that law enforcement
has sought his credit report.
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Section 127: Autopsy Authority.
Autopsies of the victims of terrorist attacks and other deadly
crimes, as well as other persons, can be an effective way of
obtaining information about the perpetrators. In addition to
revealing the cause of death, autopsies sometimes enable law
enforcement to retrieve forensic evidence (such as bomb fragments)
from the deceased's body. The primary need for federal autopsy
authority arises in the case of offenses, including acts of
terrorism, outside the United States. At present, however, except
in cases involving military personnel, the United States has no
statutory authority to conduct autopsies. When a non-military
United States national dies abroad as a result of a possible
offense against the United States, the victim's body typically must
be transported back to the United States before an autopsy can be
performed; this may significantly delay both the return of the
loved one's remains to family members, as well as cause significant
delays in the criminal investigation.
This provision would create federal authority, in the Attorney
General, to conduct autopsies when necessary or appropriate in the
conduct of federal criminal investigations. This authority is not
limited and may be delegated to other officers. This proposal is
not intended to result in the hiring of medical examiners by
federal law enforcement agencies. Rather, the autopsies will be
performed by local coroners, private forensics investigators, or
the Armed Forces Medical Examiner and his staff.
Section 128: Administrative Subpoenas in Terrorism
Investigations.
The Department of Justice currently has the authority to issue
administrative subpoenas in investigations of a wide variety of
federal offenses, including health-care fraud, see 18 U.S.C.
§ 3486(a)(1)(A), immigration violations, see 8 U.S.C.
§ 1225(a), and false claims against the United States,
see 31 U.S.C. § 3733. But administrative subpoenas are
not available in investigations of terrorism, even though the
consequences of a terrorist attack are far more dire than
committing simple fraud against the United States government. As a
result, lawenforcement personnel are required to seek grand jury
subpoenas before individuals who may have information relevant to a
terrorism investigation can be compelled to testify or provide
documents.
This provision would extend the existing administrative-subpoena
authorities into investigations involving domestic or international
terrorism. It also would prohibit a subpoena recipient from
disclosing to any other person (except to a lawyer in order to
obtain legal advice) the fact that he has received a subpoena. This
proposal would not give the Justice Department a unilateral,
unreviewable authority to compel production of documents relevant
to a terrorism investigation. If recipients refuse to comply with
subpoenas, the Justice Department would have to ask a court to
enforce them. And subpoena recipients would retain the ability, as
they do in other contexts, to ask a court to quash the subpoena.
See, e.g., In re Administrative Subpoena, John
Doe, D.P.M., 253 F.3d 256 (6th Cir. 2001).
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Sec. 129: Strengthening Access to and Use of Information in
National Security Investigations.
This section is primarily concerned with correcting problems and
weaknesses in provisions authorizing the use of "national security
letters." In substance, national security letters are
administrative subpoenas that may be issued by FBI officials--or in
some instances, other authorized government officials-to obtain
specified types of records or information for use in national
security investigations. The existing national security letter
provisions include the following:
(1) 18 U.S.C. § 2709--Providing FBI access, in connection
with investigations of international terrorism or espionage, to
certain electronic communication transactional records maintained
by communication service providers.
(2) Section 625(a)-(b) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15
U.S.C. § 168 Iu(a)(b))--Providing FBI access, in connection
with investigations of international terrorism or espionage, to
certain consumer information maintained by consumer reporting
agencies.
(3) Section 626 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C.
§ 1681v)--Providing access to consumer reports and other
consumer information maintained by consumer reporting agencies,
where needed by government agencies authorized to investigate or
carry out intelligence or analysis activities related to
international terrorism.
(4) Section 1114(a)(5) of the Right to Financial Privacy Act (12
U.S.C. § 3414(a)(5))--Providing FBI access, in connection with
investigations of international terrorism or espionage, to
financial records maintained by financial institutions.
(5) Section 802(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50
U.S.C. § 436(a))--Providing access by authorized investigative
agencies to financial records and information, consumer reports,
and travel records in relation to a person having access to
classified information, based on indications that the person has
disclosed or may disclose classified information to a foreign
power.
Problems under these provisions include the following: (1) The
statutes in which the national security letter provisions appear
generally prohibit persons from disclosing that they have received
these requests for information, to safeguard the integrity of the
terrorism and espionage investigations in which national security
letters are used. However, they specify no penalty for persons who
make such unlawful disclosures. (2) While these statutes create a
legal obligation for the recipient to provide the requested
information, they do not specify any procedures for judicial
enforcement in case the recipient refuses to comply with the
request. (3) The scope of the national security letter provisions
on the terrorism side is generally limited to international
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terrorism; however, the distinction between international and
domestic terrorism is increasingly elusive in contemporary
circumstances. (4) These provisions are restrictive regarding the
sharing of information among federal agencies with relevant
responsibilities. This is in conflict with current needs and with
the broad principles favoring the sharing of intelligence among
federal agencies under the USA PATRIOT Act.
Subsection (a) of this section provides appropriate penalties
for violations of the nondisclosure provisions of the national
security letter provisions. Currently, 18 U. S.C. § 1510(b)
makes it an offense for an officer of a financial institution to
notify other persons about a grand jury subpoena or an
administrative subpoena issued by the Department of Justice for
records of the financial institution. The offense is punishable by
up to a year of imprisonment, or up to five years of imprisonment
if the disclosure was made with the intent to obstruct a judicial
proceeding. Similarly, 18 U.S.C. § 1510(d) makes it an
offense, punishable by up to five years of imprisonment, for an
insurance company employee to notify other persons about a grand
jury subpoena for records with intent to obstruct a judicial
proceeding.
Subsection (a) of this section adds a parallel offense (proposed
18 U.S.C. § 1510(e)) covering violations of the non-disclosure
requirements of the national security letter provisions described
above. As with current 18 U.S.C. § 1510(b), the offense would
be a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year of imprisonment, but
would be punishable by up to five years of imprisonment if the
unlawful disclosure was committed with the intent to obstruct the
terrorism or espionage investigation. In addition to providing
appropriate penalties for unlawful disclosure of national security
letter requests, the same penalties would apply to: (i) violation
of the non-disclosure requirement under 50, U. S .C. § 1861(d)
for orders of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requiring
the production of records, documents, and other tangible things in
connection with investigations to obtain foreign intelligence
information about non-United States persons or to protect against
international terrorism or espionage, and (ii) violation of the
non-disclosure provision of proposed 18 U.S.C. § 2332f(d) in
section 129 of this bill, relating to administrative subpoenas in
terrorism investigations.
The national security letter provisions make compliance with the
request for information mandatory. See 12 U.S.C. §
3414(a)(5)(A); 15 U.S.C. § 1681u(a)-(b), 1681v(a); 18 U.S.C.
§ 2709(a); 50 U.S.C. § 436(c). However, they make no
provision for judicial enforcement in case this legal obligation is
not met. Subsection (b) of this section authorizes the Attorney
General to seek judicial enforcement in such cases. This is
similar, for example, to the existing judicial enforcement
provision in 18 U.S.C. § 3486(c) for administrative subpoenas
under that section.
Subsection (c) of this section amends the national security
letter provisions relating to electronic communication
transactional records, consumer credit information, and financial
institution records, so that they apply in investigations of all
types of terrorist activities. The specific amendments involve
substituting, for current references in these provisions to
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investigations relating to "international terrorism," references
to investigations relating to "terrorist activities." The latter
notion is defined in proposed 18 U.S.C. § 2510(20) in section
121 of this bill so as to include domestic, as well as
international, terrorism. The limitation to international terrorism
in existing law is an impediment to the effective use of national
security letters because it may not be apparent in the early stages
of a terrorism investigation-or even after it has continued for
some time-whether domestic or international terrorism is involved.
The Oklahoma City bombing and the anthrax letter incidents
illustrate this point. Moreover, in the current circumstances,
domestic terrorists who attempt to ally with or are inspired to
emulate international terrorists are an increasing concern. The
dangers posed to the national security by such persons may be
comparable to those posed by international terrorists, and national
security letters should likewise be an available tool in the
investigation of their criminal activities.
Subsection (d) of this section deletes or modifies language in
the national security letter provisions which unduly limits
information sharing among federal agencies. For example, 18 U.S.C.
§ 2709 is the national security letter provision for
electronic communication transactional records. Subsection (d) of
§ 2709 states that the FBI may disseminate information and
records obtained pursuant to that section only as provided in
guidelines approved by the Attorney General "for foreign
intelligence collection and foreign counterintelligence
investigations conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and, with respect to dissemination to an agency of the United
States, only if such information is clearly relevant to the
authorized responsibilities of such agency." The reference to
guidelines that relate to "foreign intelligence collection and
foreign counterintelligence investigations" is inconsistent with
the amendment proposed in subsection (c) of this section to extend
the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2709 to include investigations of
domestic terrorism, as well as international terrorism. The
restrictive language regarding information sharing with other
federal agencies is in conflict with the principles favoring broad
sharing of intelligence among federal agencies under section 203 of
the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. 107-56).
Subsection (c) of this section accordingly deletes the
restrictive language quoted above in 18 U.S.C. § 2709(d), so
that it states simply that the FBI may disseminate information and
records obtained under § 2709 only as provided in guidelines
approved by the Attorney General. Subsection (c) also makes similar
changes in the other national security letter provisions. The
general effect of the amendments is to remove existing impediments
to the sharing of information obtained by means of national
security letters in terrorism and espionage investigations with
other federal agencies having relevant responsibilities.
Title II: Protecting National Security
Information
Section 201: Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism
Investigation Detainee Information.
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In certain instances, the release of information about persons
detained in connection with terrorism investigations could have a
substantial adverse impact on the United States' security
interests, as well as the detainee's privacy. Cf. North
Jersey Media Group, Inc. v. Ashcroft, 308 F.3d 198, 217-19 (3d
Cir. 2002). Publicizing the fact that a particular alien has been
detained could alert his coconspirators about the extent of the
federal investigation and the imminence of their own detention,
thus provoking them to flee to avoid detention and prosecution or
to accelerate their terrorist plans before they can be
disrupted.
Although existing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions
7(A), 7(C), and 7(F) (5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)) permit the
government to protect information relating to detainees, defending
this interpretation through litigation requires extensive
Department of Justice resources, which would be better spent
detecting and incapacitate terrorists. This provision thus
establishes a specific authority under Exemption 3 of the FOIA to
clarify what is already implicit in various FOIA exemptions: the
government need not disclose information about individuals detained
in investigations of terrorism until disclosure occurs routinely
upon the initiation of criminal charges.
Section 202: Distribution of "Worst Case Scenario"
Information.
Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U. S.C. § 7412(r),
requires private companies that use potentially dangerous chemicals
to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency a "worst case
scenario" report detailing what would be the impact on the
surrounding community of release of the specified chemicals. Such
reports are a roadmap for terrorists, who could use the information
to plan attacks on the facilities.
This provision would revise section 112(r)(7)(H) of the Clean
Air Act to better manage access to information contained in "worst
case scenario" reports. This revised section would continue to
allow such information to be shared with federal and state
officials who are responsible for preventing or responding to
accidental or criminal releases. However, the revised section will
require that public access be limited to "read-only" methods, and
only to those persons who live or work in the geographical area
likely to be affected by a worst-case release from a facility.
Section 203: Information Relating to Capitol Buildings.
The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C. §
1301 et seq., establishes the Office of Compliance, a congressional
office that has the power to enforce OSHA standards with respect to
the working conditions of legislative branch employees. OSHA often
assists the Office in its work, see 2 USC. § 1382(e)
& 1385(b), and therefore the agency sometimes obtains
securitysensitive information (e.g., the layout of government
buildings, and the location of air circulation equipment and
ventilation ducts). Terrorists may be able to obtain this
information from OSHA via a FOIA request. To ensure that
congressional officials can provide necessary information with
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the assurance that it will not be publicly released, this
provision makes clear that such information is exempt from
disclosure under FOIA Exemption 3.
Section 204: Ex Parte Authorizations Under Classified
Information Procedures Act.
Under the current version of the Classified Information
Procedures Act, 18 U.S.C. App. 3 § 116, courts have discretion
over whether to approve the government's request for a CIPA
authorization-which enables the submission of sensitive evidence ex
parte and in camera. See 18 U.S.C. App. 3 § 4 ("The court may
permit the United States to make a request for such authorization
[for a protective order] in the form of a written statement to be
inspected by the court alone." (emphasis added)). As a result, the
government is forced to divert valuable resources to litigating
this question. And even worse, a request for confidentiality itself
can be a security breach: the government risks disclosing sensitive
national-security information simply by explaining in open court
why the information should be redacted. See, e.g.,
United States v. Rezaq, 899 F. Supp. 697, 707 (D.D.C. 1995)
(government's CIPA pleadings must be served "on the defendant and
then litigated in an adversarial hearing").
This provision would amend CIPA to provide that courts shall
allow the United States to make a request for a CIPA authorization
ex parte and in camera. This amendment would not affect the showing
that the United States is required to make in order to obtain a
protective order, but by replacing "may" with "shall," the United
States will be able to obtain the court's guidance in every case in
which classified information may potentially be discoverable,
without risking disclosure of the very secrets that it seeks to
protect. See United States v. Klimavicius-Viloria,
144 F.3d 1249, 1261 (9th Cir. 1998) (upholding the use under CIPA
of ex parte, in camera hearings and written submissions by the
government when the court is required to make discovery
determinations).
Section 205: Exclusion of United States Security Requirements
from Gross Income of Protected Officials.
Under current tax law, certain federal officials--those whose
movements are restricted, or who are required to use specific
facilities, for their physical protection in the interest of the
United States' national security--may be taxed on the value of
these protective "services." See 26 C.F.R. 1.132-5(m) (describing
the circumstances under which police protection and related
transportation expenses may be deemed to be working condition
fringe benefits). Due to the recent terrorist threats, an
increasing and variable number of government officials--including
Cabinet and subcabinet officers, congressional leaders, and
Justices of the Supreme Court--have begun to receive protective
services, and now find themselves taxed on the value of these
services.
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Accordingly, this provision would add a provision to the
Internal Revenue Code to clarify that required security measures
jointly determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney
General, and the Director of Central Intelligence, are excludable
from the gross income of the protected officials. This provision is
limited to provisions from appropriate fluids to be consistent with
restrictions on the receipt of private funds for public purposes,
and to ensure that the exclusion is limited to the public security
purpose.
Section 206: Grand Jury Information in Terrorism Cases.
This section amends Rule 6(e)(2)(B) of the Federal Rules of
Criminal Procedure to make witnesses and persons to whom subpoenas
are directed subject to grand jury secrecy rules in cases where
serious adverse consequences may otherwise result, including danger
to the national security or to the life or physical safety of an
individual, flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering
with evidence, intimidation of a potential witness, or other
serious jeopardy to an investigation. The provision would permit
witnesses and recipients of grand jury subpoenas to consult with
counsel regarding the subpoena and any testimony, but would impose
the same secrecy obligations on counsel.
Title III: Enhancing Investigations of Terrorist
Plots
Subtitle A: Terrorism Identification Database
Section 301: Short Title.
This provision indicates that Title III, Subtitle B may be
referred to as the "Terrorist Identification Database Act of
2003."
Section 302: Collection and Use of Identification Information
from Suspected Terrorists and Other Sources.
Current law permits the FBI to establish an index to collect DNA
identification records of persons convicted of certain crimes, and
DNA samples recovered from crime scenes and unidentified human
remains. 42 U.S.C. § 14132. However, the law does not directly
address the FBI's authority to collect and use DNA samples of
terrorists or those suspected of terrorism. It would be extremely
beneficial to clarify how DNA samples from suspects, such as
samples taken from unlawful combatants at Guantanaino Bay, can be
used as necessary for counterterrorism and law-enforcement
purposes. Section 302 would allow the Attorney General or Secretary
of Defense to collect, analyze, and maintain DNA samples and other
identification information from "suspected terrorists"--i.e., (1)
persons suspected of engaging in terrorism as defined in 18 U.S.C.
§ 2331 (1) & (5), or committing an offense described in 18
U.S.C. § 2332b(g)(5)(B), or persons conspiring or attempting
to do so; (2) enemy combatants or other battlefield detainees;
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(3) persons suspected of being members of a terrorist
organization; and (4) certain classes of aliens including those
engaged in activity that endangers national security.
Section 303: Establishment of Database to Facilitate
Investigation and Prevention of Terrorist Activities.
This provision would allow the Attorney General to establish
databases of DNA records pertaining to the terrorists or suspected
terrorists from whom DNA samples or other identification
information have been collected. All federal agencies, including
the Department of Defense and probation offices, would be required
to give the Attorney General, for inclusion in the databases, any
DNA records, fingerprints, or other identification information that
can be collected under this Subtitle. This provision also allows
the Attorney General to use the information to detect, investigate,
prosecute, prevent, or respond to terrorist activities, or other
unlawful activities by suspected terrorists. In addition, the
Attorney General would be able to share the information with other
federal, state, local, or foreign agencies for the same
purposes.
Section 304: Definitions.
This section would establish definitions for the terms "DNA
sample" and "DNA analysis." It also would define "suspected
terrorist," which describes the class of individuals from whom the
Attorney General may acquire DNA samples and other identification
information, and whose information may be included in DNA
databases.
Section 305: Existing Authorities.
This provision would establish that the new authorities created
by this Subtitle are in addition toy authorities that may exist
under any other source of law. It also would provide that this
Subtitle shall not construed to preclude the receipt, collection,
analysis, maintenance, or dissemination of evidence or information
pursuant to any other source of law.
Section 306: Conditions of Release.
This provision would amend several portions of the United States
Code to clarify that terrorists or suspected terrorists who are
under any form of federal supervision or conditional release,
including parole, are subject to this Subtitle's provisions. These
individuals would be in the physical custody of the United States
but for an act of governmental discretion. This section would
require such individuals to cooperate in the collection of a DNA
sample as a condition of supervision or conditional release.
Subtitle B: Facilitating Information Sharing and
Cooperation
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Section 311: State and Local Information Sharing.
Section 203 and other provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act
broadened authority to share information among federal agencies
that may be relevant to the detection and prevention of terrorism,
and to obtain otherwise confidential information for use in
terrorism investigations. That Act, however, did not adequately
address the need for enhanced information sharing authority in
relation to state and local officials and foreign governments, who
are the critical partners of the United States in investigating
terrorist crimes and preventing future terrorist attacks. This
section of the bill would provide further authority for sharing of
consumer credit information, visa-related information, and
educational records information with state and local law
enforcement, thereby enacting the remainder of the information
sharing proposals that have been proposed legislatively and
endorsed by the Administration and the Department of Justice. See
Letter of Assistant Attorney General Daniel J. Bryant to Honorable
Patrick J. Leahy concerning S. 1615 (April 30, 2002).
Section 312: Appropriate Remedies with Respect to Law
Enforcement Surveillance Activities.
During the 1970s and 1980s, some law enforcement agencies--e.g.,
the New York City Police Department--entered consent decrees that
limit such agencies from gathering information about organizations
and individuals that may be engaged in terrorist activities and
other criminal wrongdoing. See, e.g., Handschu v.
Special Servs. Div., 605 F. Supp. 1384 (S.D.N.Y. 1985),
aff'd, 787 F.2d 828 (2d Cir. 1986). As a result, they lack
the ability to use the full range of investigative techniques that
are lawful under the Constitution, and that are available to the
FBI. (For example, the Attorney General's investigative guidelines
authorize agents, subject to certain restrictions, to attend public
places and events "on the same terms and conditions as members of
the public generally.") The consent decrees also handicap officers
in their efforts to share information with other law enforcement
agencies, including federal law enforcement agencies such as the
FBI. These problems threaten to frustrate the operations of the
federal-state-local Joint Terrorism Task Forces, and could prevent
effective cooperation at all levels of government in antiterrorism
efforts. As the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit explained (before September 11) in discussing one consent
decree, as a result of such a decree "the public safety is insecure
and the prerogatives of local government scorned. To continue
federal judicial micromanagement of local investigations of
domestic and international terrorist activities ... is to undermine
the federal system and to trifle with the public safety."
Alliance to End Repression v. City of Chicago, 237 F.3d 799,
802 (7th Cir. 2001).
This proposal would discontinue most consent decrees that could
impede terrorism investigations conducted by federal, state or
local law enforcement agencies. It would immediately terminate most
decrees that were enacted before September 11, 2001 (including New
York City's). All surviving decrees would have to be necessary to
correct a current and ongoing
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violation of a Federal right, extend no further than necessary
to correct the violation of the Federal right, and be narrowly
drawn and the least intrusive means to correct the violation. This
provision is modeled on the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 18 U.S.C.
§ 3626, which terminated many prison-related consent decrees
and which repeatedly has been upheld by the courts. Section 312
does not apply to consent decrees or injunctions remedying
discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national
origin, and therefore would not affect decrees or injunctions
involving allegations of racial profiling.
Section 313: Disclosure of Information.
This provision provides protection against civil liability for
businesses and their personnel who voluntarily provide information
to federal law enforcement agencies to assist in the investigation
and prevention of terrorist activities. The purpose of the
provision is to encourage voluntary cooperation and assistance in
counterterrorism efforts by private entities and individuals.
Subtitle C: Facilitating International Terrorism
Investigations
Section 321: Authority to Seek Search Warrants and Orders to
Assist Foreign States.
28 U.S.C. § 1782 does not clearly authorize the United
States to obtain search warrants in response to requests from
foreign governments; it only clearly applies to subpoenas. Nor is
it clear that federal law enforcement can obtain orders under the
pen register/trap and trace statute at foreign governments'
requests. As a result, the United States can seek search warrants
only if we have entered into a treaty with the foreign government
that contains a provision authorizing us to do so (and, naturally,
only if the foreign government has set forth facts sufficient to
establish probable cause). The same is true of pen./trap orders.
The United States therefore may find itself in a situation where it
cannot assist a foreign government in one of its criminal
investigations, which is hardly an effective way of encouraging
foreign allies to assist our own counterterrorism
investigations.
This provision would modify federal law to clarify that the
United States may seek search warrants, pen/trap orders, and ECPA
orders, in response to the requests of foreign governments. Doing
so will enhance our ability to assist foreign law enforcement
investigations, as well as promote better cooperation from foreign
allies when we seek evidence from within their borders.
Section 322: Extradition Without Treaties and for Offenses Not
Covered by an Existing Treaty.
Many of the United States' older extradition treaties contain
"lists" or "schedules" of extraditable offenses that reflect only
those serious crimes in existence at the time the treaties
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were negotiated. (For. example, our treaty with Egypt dates from
1874, and our treaty with Great Britain which includes Pakistan
dates from the 1930s.) As a result, these older treaties often fail
to include more modern offenses, such as money laundering, computer
crimes, and certain crimes against children. While some old
treaties are supplemented by newer multilateral terrorism treaties,
extradition is possible under these newer treaties only if the
other country is also a party to the multinational treaty, leaving
gaps in coverage. Additionally, absent a few narrow exceptions,
U.S. law permits the extradition of offenders to a foreign nation
only when there is a treaty or convention in force with that
country or a statute conferring such authority upon the executive
branch. See Valentine v. United States, 299 U.S. 5, 8
(1936). At present, there are close to seventy countries in the
world with which the U.S. has no extradition treaty at all. This
means that the U.S. can become a "safe haven" for some foreign
criminals, and that we cannot take advantage of some countries'
willingness to surrender fugitives to us in the absence of an
extradition treaty these nations usually require at least the
possibility of reciprocity.
This provision would amend current extradition law to: (1)
authorize the U.S. to extradite offenders to treaty partners for
modern crimes that may not be included in our older list treaties
with those countries; and (2) provide for on a case-by-case basis
and with the approval of the Attorney General and the Secretary of
State extradition from the United States for serious crimes even in
the absence of an extradition treaty.
Title IV: Enhancing Prosecution and Prevention of
Terrorist Crimes
Subtitle A: Increased Penalties and Protections
Against Terrorist Acts
Section 401: Terrorism Hoaxes.
In the wake of the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, a number
of individuals chose to perpetrate terrorism hoaxes (e.g., sending
unidentified white powder in a letter with the intent that the
recipient believe it to be anthrax). Such hoaxes divert
law-enforcement and emergencyservices resources, and thus impede
our ability to respond to actual terrorist events. Current federal
law does not adequately address the problem of hoaxes relating to
various weapons of mass destruction. At present, the primary way to
prosecute terrorism hoaxes is to use "threat" statutes--e.g., 18
U.S.C. § 2332a, which criminalizes certain threats to use a
weapon of mass destruction, and 18 U.S.C. § 876, which
criminalizes the use of the mails to threaten injury to a person.
But some terrorism hoaxes are simply false reports that cannot
easily be characterized as outright threats.
This section would amend federal law to create a new prohibition
on terrorism hoaxes. In particular, it would (1) make it unlawful
to knowingly convey false or misleading information, where the
information reasonably may be believed, and concerns criminal
activity relating to
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weapons of mass destruction; (2) require criminal defendants to
reimburse any person, including the United States, State and local
first responders who incur expenses incident to an emergency or
investigative response to the terrorism hoax; and (3) authorize a
civil action for such expenses.
Section 402: Providing Material Support to Terrorism.
18 U.S.C. § 2339A's prohibition on providing material
support to terrorists is unnecessarily narrow; it currently does
not reach all situations where material support o resources are
provided to facilitate the commission of "international terrorism."
Rather, § 2339A only encompasses those acts of international
terrorism which are prohibited by some other federal statute.
Because, unlike the existing underlying offenses in §
2339A(a), "international terrorism" per se is not an offense under
Title 18, it is prudent to establish unassailable constitutional
bases for prohibiting such support. The first basis is if the
material support is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce.
The second basis is the regulation and control over the activities
of U.S. nationals and U.S. legal entities who are outside the
United States. Such control is based on, among others, the United
States' constitutional foreign affairs power. In addition, this
section amends the definition of "international terrorism" to make
it clear that it covers acts which by their nature appear to be
intended for the stated purposes. Hence, there would be no
requirement to show that the defendants actually had such an
intent. (There is a conforming amendment to the definition of
"domestic terrorism" to maintain the existing parallel between the
two definitions.)
Second, one court of appeals recently has questioned whether the
current prohibition in 18 U.S.C. § 2339B on providing
"training" or "personnel" to terrorist organizations designated
under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act are
unconstitutionally vague. See Humanitarian Law Project v.
Reno, 205 F.3d 1130 (9th Cir. 2000), cert. denied, 121 S. Ct.
1226 (2001). But see United States v. Lindh, ___ F.
Supp. 2d (E.D. Va. 2002) (rejecting the holding of Humanitarian Law
Project). Subsection (b) would amend the pertinent statutes to
remove any possible doubts about the scope of the prohibition. In
particular, "training" would now be defined as "instruction or
teaching designed to impart a specific skill." And criminal
liability for "personnel" would apply to "knowingly provid[ing],
attempt[ing] to provide, or conspir[ing] to provide a terrorist
organization with one or more individuals (including himself) to
work in concert with it or under its direction or control."
Section 403: Weapons of Mass Destruction.
At present, the federal weapons of mass destruction statute, 18
U.S.C. § 2332a, contains only one of the several
constitutional bases for asserting federal jurisdiction over a
terrorist attack involving weapons of mass destruction in certain
circumstances: if the attack is against a person or property and
"affect[s] interstate commerce." Id. § 2332a(a)(2). This
provision would amend the statute to specifically cover property
and persons in three other circumstances where federal jurisdiction
constitutionally can be asserted: (1) if the mail or any facility
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commerce is used in furtherance of the offense; (2) if the
attacked property is used in interstate or foreign commerce, or in
an activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce; or (3) if
any perpetrator travels in or causes another to travel in
interstate or foreign commerce in furtherance of the offense.
Second, with respect to attacks on government buildings, the WMD
statute only applies to attacks on property owned by the United
States. It currently does not directly criminalize attacks on
foreign governments' property in the United States. This section
therefore amends the statute, in new Subsection 2332a(a)(4), to
provide for jurisdiction where the property against which the
weapon of mass destruction is directed is property within the
United States that is owned, leased, or used by a foreign
government. (The term "foreign government" is defined in 18 U.S.C.
§ 11.)
Third, the current version of the WMD statute does not prohibit
the use of chemical weapons; in fact, it expressly states that it
does not apply to attacks carried out with "a chemical weapon as
that term is defined in section 229F." 18 U.S.C. § 2332a(a),
(b). This restriction was added in the implementing legislation for
the Chemical Weapons Convention on October 22, 1998. Removing
"chemical weapons" from the ambit of the WMD statute has proven
improvident, as it has created needless factual confusion in
situations where the WMD contains explosive materials but no toxic
chemicals, and where it contains toxic chemicals in addition to the
explosive material. Since most chemical weapons will always contain
some explosive material in order to cause the dispersal of the
toxic chemical, it makes little sense to arbitrarily limit the
scope of the use of WMD statute since the damage resulting from its
use can be caused by either the explosive material, or the toxic
chemicals, or a combination of both. Restoring "chemical weapons"
to the scope of the WMD statute eliminates a defendant's ability to
make technical arguments that the prosecutor has charged under the
wrong statute.
In addition to making the foregoing changes in the WMD statute,
this section includes a technical amendment to 18 U.S.C. 175b
(relating to biological agents and toxins), to correct a
cross-reference to a related regulation which has been
modified.
Section 404: Use of Encryption to Conceal Criminal
Activity.
In recent years, terrorists and other criminals have begun to
use encryption technology to conceal their communications when
planning and conducting criminal activity. Title 18 of the United
States Code currently contains no prohibition on the use of
encrypted communications to plan or facilitate crimes. This
proposal would amend federal law to provide that any person who,
during the commission of or the attempt to commit a federal felony,
knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any
incriminating communication or information relating to that felony,
be imprisoned for an additional period of not fewer than 5 years.
These additional penalties are warranted to deter the use of
encryption technology to conceal criminal activity. In addition, it
does not address the issue of whether software companies and
internet service
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providers should give law enforcement access to "keys" for the
purposes of decoding intercepted communications.
Sec. 405. Presumption for Pretrial Detention in Cases Involving
Terrorism
Defendants in federal cases who are accused of certain crimes
are presumptively denied pretrial release. 18 U.S.C. §
3142(e). Specifically, for these crimes, there is a rebuttable
presumption that "no condition or combination of conditions will
reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required and the
safety of the community." The list of crimes currently includes
drug offenses carrying maximum prison terms of 10 years or more,
but it does not include most terrorism offenses. Thus, persons
accused of many drug offenses are presumptively to be detained
before trial, but no comparable presumption exists for persons
accused of most terrorist crimes.
This section would amend 18 U.S.C. § 3142(e) to
presumptively deny release to persons charged with crimes listed in
18 U.S.C. § 2332b(g)(5)(B), which contains a standard list of
offenses that are likely to be committed by terrorists. This
presumption is warranted because of the unparalleled magnitude of
the danger to the United States and its people posed by acts of
terrorism, and because terrorism is typically engaged in by groups
-- many with international connections -- that are often in a
position to help their members flee or go into hiding.
In addition to adding terrorism offenses to those creating a
presumption in favor of detention, this section makes conforming
changes in a provision describing offenses for which pretrial
detention may be considered (§ 3142(f)(1)) and in a provision
identifying factors to be considered by the judicial officer in
determining whether the defendant's appearance and public safety
can reasonably be assured through release conditions (§
3142(g)(1)).
Section 406: "Mass Transportation Vehicle" Technical
Correction.
Richard Colvin Reid has been charged with attempting to blow up
American Airlines Flight 63 with bombs concealed in his shoes,
while over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Paris to Miami. The
plane was immediately diverted to Boston. A federal grand jury
sitting in the District of Massachusetts promptly indicted Reid on
a variety of federal charges, including 18 U.S.C. § 1993,
which prohibits wrecking a "mass transportation vehicle." (Section
1993 authorizes an aggravated penalty of up to life imprisonment
when a passenger was on the mass transportation vehicle, whereas an
ordinary charge under 18 U.S.C. § 32(b) permits only a 20-year
prison term where no death resulted.)
The phrase "mass transportation" in section 1993 is defined by a
cross-reference to 49 U.S.C. § 5302(a)(7) (the term also
includes schoolbus, charter, and sightseeing transportation, 18
U.S.C. § 1993(c)(5)). In contrast to the phrase "mass
transportation," the word "vehicle" has no
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explicit definition in section 1993, nor is it defined in
section 5302. Reid argued that an airplane is not a "vehicle" as
that term is used in section 1993, and the district court dismissed
that count of the indictment. See United States v.
Reid, 206 F. Supp. 2d 132 (D. Mass. 2002) (citing McBoyle v.
United States, 283 U.S. 25 (1931) (holding that an "aircraft"
is not a "vehicle" under 1 U.S.C. § 4)). This proposal
specifically provides a definition of "vehicle" for the purpose of
18 U.s.c. § 1993. This definition is broad, including any
apparatus that may be used as a vehicle. This provision also would
make technical amendments to the relevant chapter and section
names.
Section 407: Acts of Terrorism Transcending National
Boundaries.
18 U.S.C. § 2332b covers killings and other serious violent
crimes against persons in the United States, where "conduct
transcending national boundaries" is involved. Among other grounds,
federal jurisdiction exists if "any facility of interstate or
foreign commerce is used in furtherance of the offense," or if the
offense affects interstate or foreign commerce. However, the
statute's jurisdictional predicates are narrower than the limits
contained in the Constitution. For example, the predicates do not
include travel in interstate or foreign commerce in furtherance of
the offense. This proposal would expand the bases for federal
jurisdiction under § 2332b, including as a jurisdictional
predicate travel in interstate or foreign commerce in furtherance
of the offense.
The current version of § 2332b is deficient for the
additional reason that it defines "facility of interstate or
foreign commerce" to have the same meaning given that term in 18
U.S.C. § 1958(b)(2). But § 1958(b)(2) only defines
"facility of interstate commerce" (to include "means of
transportation and communication"), and makes no mention of
foreign commerce. As a result, § 2332b is ambiguous
on whether the same stipulation--that "means of transportation and
communication" constitute a "facility of... commerce"--applies with
respect to facilities of foreign commerce. This section therefore
would correct 18 U.S.C. § 1958(b)(2) so that it refers to
"facility of interstate or foreign commerce" rather than simply
"facility of interstate commerce."
Section 408: Postrelease Supervision of Terrorists.
Section 812 of the USA PATRIOT Act added 18 U.S.C. §
3583(j), which authorizes up to lifetime postrelease supervision
for the perpetrators of terrorist offenses. In contrast, the
maximum supervision period for the most serious crimes under the
general rule of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(b) is five years, and for
most offenses it is three years or less. The reform adopted in the
USA PATRIOT Act reflects the continuing danger to the United States
and its people that convicted terrorists may pose even after
completion of a term of imprisonment, and legislative recognition
that involvement by offenders in terrorism may be the result of
persistent (or lifelong) ideological commitments that will not
simply disappear within a few years of release.
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This section of the bill makes conforming amendments needed to
ensure the effectiveness of the. USA PATRIOT Act reform. In part,
it makes conforming amendments in provisions affecting
reimprisonment on revocation of supervised release based on
violations of release conditions. Currently, 18 U.S.C. §
3583(e)(3) limits imprisonment following revocation to five years
in case of a class A felony, three years in case of a class B
felony, two years in case of a class C or D felony, and one year
otherwise. The amendments in this section do not change these
maximum periods of reimprisonment, but they amend § 3583(e)(3)
to make it clear that they are limitations on reimprisonment based
on a particular revocation, rather than limits on aggregate
reimprisonment for an offender who persistently violates release
conditions and is subject to multiple revocations on that
basis.
The bill also makes a complementary change in 18 U.S.C. §
3583(h). Section 3583(h) currently provides that the court may
impose a term of supervised release to follow reimprisonment based
on revocation of release--but not if the maximum reimprisonment
term allowed by § 3583(e)(3) was imposed. Thus, the court is
barred from imposing the maximum reimprisonment term--even if the
maximum term is fully warranted by the nature of the offender's
violation of release conditions and resulting danger to the
public--if the court wants to preserve the option of providing
further supervision for the offender once the term of
reimprisonment is over. Since this limitation works against the
effective supervision of released terrorists and protection of the
public, the bill proposes that it be eliminated.
In addition, this section provides that the sentence for a
terrorist offense within the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 3583(j) must
include a term of supervised release of at least 10 years. By way
of comparison, provisions of the drug laws that authorize extended
postrelease supervision periods for certain drug offenses mandate
that the sentence impose supervision terms of at least 10 years,
eight years, six years, five years, four years, three years, two
years, or one year for various offenses and offenders. See 21
U.S.C. § 841. The corresponding proposal for terrorists in
this bill reflects the judgment that persons convicted of terrorist
crimes generally pose a sufficient public safety concern that they
should uniformly be subject to observation for a substantial period
of time following release. This does not curtail the court's normal
authority to revisit the period of supervision imposed in the
sentence at any time after one year of release, and to shorten or
terminate supervision if appropriate. See 18 U.S.C. §
3583(e)(1). It does, however, reflect a judgment that the period of
monitoring and oversight for offenders convicted of terrorist
crimes should at least be 10 years following release, unless the
court affirmatively determines thereafter that further supervision
is unwarranted.
This section broadens the class of offenses subject to extended
supervision periods under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(j) by deleting a
limitation to offenses which result in, or create a foreseeable
risk of, death or serious injury. With this amendment, the
provision includes all offenses in the standard list of crimes
likely to be committed by terrorists and supporters of terrorism
(see 18 U.S.C. § 2332b(g)(5)(B)). The existing limitation
could complicate or prevent the imposition of
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appropriate supervision periods on persons convicted of
non-violent terrorist offenses--such as a cyberterrorism attack on
the United States that results in tens of billions of dollars of
economic damage--and on persons who provide the essential financial
or other material support for the apparatus of terrorism, but do
not directly engage themselves in violent terrorist acts. The
continuing danger posed to the national security by such persons
may be no less than that posed by the direct perpetrators of
terrorist violence, and the courts should be afforded the same
degree of discretion in prescribing postrelease supervision in
their cases.
Section 409: Suspension, Revocation, and Denial of Certificates
for Civil Aviation or National Security Reasons.
This section provides procedures for the suspension, revocation,
and denial of pilot certificates in relation to persons who pose a
threat to civil aviation or national security. There is an
immediate practical need for clarification and confirmation of the
authority of the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security and
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in this area because
there are several pending challenges to FAA revocations by persons
whose certificates were revoked following notification that they
"were known to pose, or suspected of posing, a risk of air piracy
or terrorism or a threat to airline or passenger safety" (49 U.S.C.
§ 114(h)(2)).
Section 410: No Statute of Limitations for Terrorism
Crimes.
This section broadens the class of offenses that may be
prosecuted without limitation of time under 18 U.S.C. §
3286(b) by deleting a limitation to offenses which result in, or
create a foreseeable risk of, death or serious injury. With this
amendment, the provision includes all offenses in the standard list
of crimes likely to be committed by terrorists and supporters of
terrorism (see 18 U.S.C. § 2332b(g)(5)(B)). The existing
limitation could complicate or prevent the prosecution of persons
convicted of non-violent terrorist offenses--such as a
cyberterrorism attack on the United States that results in tens of
billions of dollars of economic damage--and of persons who provide
the essential financial or other material support for the apparatus
of terrorism, but do not directly engage themselves in violent
terrorist acts. The continuing danger posed to the national
security by such persons may be no less than that posed by the
direct perpetrators of terrorist violence, and they should not be
entitled to permanent immunity from prosecution merely because they
have succeeded in avoiding identification and apprehension for some
period of time.
Section 411: Penalties for terrorist murders.
Existing law does not consistently provide adequate maximum
penalties for fatal acts of terrorism. For example, in a case in
which a terrorist caused massive loss of life by sabotaging a
national defense installation in violation of 18 U.S.C. §
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violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2284, or destroying an energy
facility in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1366, there would be no
possibility of imposing the death penalty under the statutes
defining these offenses because they contain no death penalty
authorizations.
In contrast, dozens of other federal violent crime provisions
authorize up to life imprisonment or the death penalty in cases
where victims are killed. There are also cross-cutting provisions
which authorize these sanctions for specified classes of offenses
whenever death results, such as 18 U.S.C. § 2245, which
provides that a person who, in the course of a sexual abuse
offense, "engages in conduct that results in the death of a person,
shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or
for life."
This section similarly authorizes uniformly up to life
imprisonment or the death penalty for conduct resulting in death
that occurs in the course of the offenses likely to be committed by
terrorists that are listed in 18 U.S.C. § 2232b(g)(5)(B) or in
the course of terrorist activities as defined in 18 U.S.C. §
2510 under the amendment in section 121 of this bill.
This section also adds the new provision covering terrorist
offenses resulting in death (proposed 18 U.S.C. § 2339D) to
the list of offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 3592(c)(1) whose
commission permits the jury to consider imposition of the death
penalty. This will make the option of capital punishment available
more consistently in cases involving fatal terrorist crimes. The
imposition of capital punishment in such cases will continue to be
subject to the requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 3591 that the
offender have a high degree of culpability with respect to the
death of the victim or victims, and to the requirement that the
jury conclude that the death penalty is warranted under the
standards and procedures of 18 U.S.C. § 3593.
Subtitle B: Incapacitating Terrorism Financing
Section 421: Increased Penalties for Terrorism Financing.
At present, the maximum civil penalty for violations of the
International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. § 1701
et seq., is only $10,000 per violation, see 50 U.S.C. §
1705. This is a relatively mild maximum fine; the civil penalty for
violations of the Clean Water Act, for example, is filly $25,000
for each day the violation persists. See 33 U.S.C. § 1319(d).
IEEPA's modest civil penalty may not adequately deter individuals
who are considering engaging in economic transactions that finance
terrorist organizations, or otherwise trading with prohibited
persons. And given the severity of terrorist threats, and the
consequences of a successful terrorist attack, the United States
should be able to punish those who finance terrorism at least as
severely as it can punish polluters. This proposal therefore would
amend IEEPA to increase the maximum civil penalty amount from
$10,000 per violation to $50,000 per violation.
Section 422: Money Laundering Through Hawalas
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Under federal law, a financial transaction constitutes a money
laundering offense only if the funds involved in the transaction
represent the proceeds of some criminal offense. See 18 U.S.C.
§ 1956(a)(1) ("represents the proceeds of some form of
unlawful activity"); 18 U.S.C. § 1957(f)(2) ("property
constituting, or derived from, proceeds obtained from a criminal
offense"). There is some uncertainty, however, as to whether the
"proceeds element" is satisfied as to all aspects of a money
laundering scheme when two or more transactions are conducted in
parallel. For example, consider the following transaction: A sends
drug proceeds to B, who deposits the money in Bank Account 1.
Simultaneously or subsequently, B takes an equal amount of money
from Bank Account 2 and sends it to A, or to a person designated by
A. The first transaction from A to B clearly satisfies the proceeds
element of the money laundering statute, but there is some question
as to whether second transaction--the one that involves only funds
withdrawn from Bank Account 2--does so. The question has become
increasingly important because such parallel transactions are the
technique used to launder money through hawalas and the Black
Market Peso Exchange.
Several courts have addressed related issues, holding that both
parts of the parallel or later transaction (sometimes called a
"dependent" transaction because it would not have occurred but for
the first transaction) involve criminal proceeds for purposes of
the money laundering statute. See United States v. Covey,
232 F.3d 641 (8th Cir. 2000) (where defendant receives cash from
drug dealer, and gives drug dealer checks drawn on own funds in
return, transfer of checks is a money laundering offense involving
SUA proceeds); United States v. Mankarious, 151 F.3d 694
(7th Cir. 1998) (if check constituting SUA proceeds is deposited in
bank account, and second check is written on that account, second
check constitutes proceeds, even if first check has not yet
cleared); United States v. Farrington, 2000 WL 1751996
(D.V.I. 2000) (if check constituting SUA proceeds is deposited into
bank account, and second check is drawn on same account on same
day, second check is SUA proceeds, even though first check has not
yet cleared). This proposal is intended to remove all uncertainty
on this point by providing that all constitute parts of a set of
parallel or dependent transactions involve criminal proceeds if one
such transaction does so.
Section 423: Suspension of Tax-Exempt Status of Designated
Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
A group that the United States formally designates as a
"terrorist organization" is liable, among many measures, to have
their assets frozen and their members barred from entering the
United States. However, under current law, "terrorist
organizations" that have registered as taxexempt organizations
under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code can retain their
taxexempt status. And individuals who contribute to these
designated "terrorist organizations" still are able to deduct those
contributions.
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This section amends section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code to
suspend automatically the tax exempt status of any group upon its
designation as a "terrorist organization" under the several
authorities. It also denies deductions for any donations made to
such organizations during the period of suspension.
Section 424: Denial of Federal Benefits to Terrorists.
Current law allows federal courts to deny federal benefits to
persons who have been convicted of drug-trafficking or
drug-possession crimes. 21 U.S.C. § 862. As a result, these
convicts can be prohibited, for periods of up to life, from
receiving grants, contracts, loans, professional licenses, or
commercial licenses that are provided by a federal, agency or out
of appropriated funds. But despite the fact that terrorism is at
least as dangerous to the United States' national security as drug
offenses, there presently is no legal authority to deny federal
benefits to persons who have been convicted of terrorism crimes.
This section would eliminate this inconsistency, and ensure that
the same disincentives that the law creates with respect to drug
crimes are available in the terrorism context, as well.
Specifically, it would give federal courts the authority to deny
federal benefits to any person convicted of an offense listed in 18
U.S.C. § 2332b(g)(5)(B).
Section 425: Corrections to Financing of Terrorism
Statute.
This section corrects a number of drafting errors in the
recently enacted financing of terrorism statute, 18 U.S.C. §
2339C, and supplies a definition for the term "material support or
resources" as used in that statute by cross-referencing the
existing definition in 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b).
Section 426: Terrorism-related specified activities for money
laundering.
This section adds three terrorism-related provisions to the list
of specified unlawful activities that serve as predicates for the
money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956. Subsection (a)
adds as a RICO predicate the offense in 18 U.S.C. § 1960
(relating to illegal money transmitting businesses), which has the
effect of making this offense a money laundering predicate through
the cross-reference in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(b)(7)(A). Subsection
(b) directly adds as money laundering predicates the new
terrorist-financing offense in 18 U.S.C. § 2339C and the
offense of misusing social security numbers under 42 U.S.C. §
408.
Section 427: Assets of Persons Committing Terrorist Acts
Against Foreign Countries or International Organizations.
The USA PATRIOT Act enacted a new forfeiture provision at 18
U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(G) pertaining to the assets of any person
planning or perpetrating an act of terrorism against the
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United States. This section adds a parallel provision pertaining
to the assets of any person planning or perpetrating an act of
terrorism against a foreign state or international organization
while acting within the jurisdiction of the United States.
Section 428: Technical and Conforming Amendments Relating to
the USA PATRIOT Act.
This section makes a number of corrections relating to
provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, mostly affecting money
laundering or asset forfeiture. While essentially technical in
nature, these amendments are critical, because typographical and
other errors in the USA PATRIOT Act provisions are preventing
prosecutors from fully utilizing that Act's tools. For example,
certain new forfeiture authorities enacted by that Act refer to a
non-existent statute, 31 U.S.C. § 5333, where 31 U.S.C. §
5331 is intended.
Subsection (a) makes technical corrections to a number of
provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act. Subsection (b) codifies section
316(a)-(c) of that Act as 18 U.S.C. § 987. Subsection (c) adds
explicit language covering conspiracies to two offenses likely to
be committed by terrorists (18 U.S.C. § 33 and 1366),
conforming to section 811 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which added
conspiracy language to other terrorism offense provisions.
Title V: Enhancing Immigration and Border
Security
Section 501: Expatriation of Terrorists.
Under 8 U.S.C. § 1481, an American can lose his citizenship
by voluntarily, and with the intent to relinquish nationality,
taking any of a number of actions, including: (1) obtaining
Nationality in a foreign state; (2) taking an oath of allegiance to
a foreign state; and, most importantly, (3) serving in the armed
forces of a foreign state that are engaged in hostilities against
the United States. The current expatriation statute does not,
however, provide for the relinquishing of citizenship in cases
where an American serves in a hostile foreign terrorist
organization. It thus fails to take account of the myriad ways in
which, in the modern world, war can be waged against the United
States.
This provision would amend 8 U.S.C. § 1481 to make clear
that, just as an American can relinquish his citizenship by serving
in a hostile foreign army, so can he relinquish his citizenship by
serving in a hostile terrorist organization. Specifically, an
American could be expatriated if, with the intent to relinquish
nationality, he becomes a member of, or provides material support
to, a group that the United States has designated as a "terrorist
organization," if that group is engaged in hostilities against the
United States.
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This provision also would make explicit that the intent to
relinquish nationality need not be manifested in words, but can be
inferred from conduct. The Supreme Court already has recognized
that intent can be inferred from conduct. See, e.g.,
Vance v. Terrazas, 444 U.S. 252, 260 (1980) (recognizing
that the "intent to relinquish citizenship ... . [can be] expressed
in words or. . . found as a fair inference from proved conduct");
see also King v. Rogers, 463 F.2d 1188, 1189 (9th Cir. 1972)
("[S]pecific subjective intent to renounce United States
citizenship... may [be] prove[d].. . by evidence of an explicit
renunciation, acts inconsistent with United States citizenship, or
by affirmative voluntary act[s] clearly manifesting a decision to
accept [foreign] nationality." (citations omitted)); United
States v. Schffer, 831 F. Supp. 1166, 1194 (E.D. Pa. 1993)
("Specific intent may.. . be proven by evidence of what steps the
alleged expatriate did or did not take in connection with his
expatriating acts."), aff'd without opinion, 31 F.3d 1175 (3rd Cir.
1994). Specifically, this proposal would make service in a hostile
army or terrorist group prima facie evidence of an intent to
renounce citizenship.
Section 502: Enhanced Criminal Penalties for Violations of
Immigration and Nationality Act.
Aliens all too frequently flaunt the requirements of the
Immigration and Nationality Act because that statute does not
include effective criminal deterrence. There are minimal criminal
penalties directly attached to fundamental violations, or there is
no effective prosecution of fraudulent documents, marriage fraud,
or unlawful employment of aliens. Criminal penalties in some cases
are misdemeanors or require that a pattern and practice of
violations be shown to warrant felony punishment. This provision
would amend the INA to increase the penalties for a number of
immigration crimes, including unlawful entries, alien-smuggling
crimes, crimes involving fraud, and failures to depart.
Section 503: Inadmissibility and Removability of National
Security Aliens or Criminally Charged Aliens.
The Attorney General does not have sufficient authority to bar
an alien from the United States, or to remove an alien from the
United States, on the basis of national security. The direct
authority for barring admission or removing an alien does not
provide sufficient authority for action based strictly on national
security grounds. This provision would give the Attorney General
sufficient authority to deny admission to the United States, or to
remove from the United States, those individuals whom the Attorney
General has reason to believe would pose a danger to the national
security of the United States, based on the statutory definition of
"national security" under the Act in connection with the
designation of foreign terrorist organizations. The new ground of
admissibility, and the new ground of removal, would parallel the
authority currently granted to the Secretary of State in INA §
212(a)(3)(C)(i) to determine that an alien's entry or activities
the Secretary has reasonable grounds to believe would have
potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the
United States, thereby making the alien excludable.
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In this case, the Attorney General must have reason to believe
that the alien poses a danger to the national security of the
United States and may deny admission. In addition, this provision
would give the Attorney General the authority to bar from the
United States aliens who have been convicted of, or charged with,
serious crimes in other countries.
Section 504: Expedited Removal of Criminal Aliens.
Current law provides for the expedited removal of aliens in very
limited circumstances. Expedited removal enables the government to
quickly remove from the United States certain aliens who have been
convicted of certain crimes, and renders the aliens ineligible for
"discretionary relief." The expedited removal authorities (set
forth in section 238(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8
U.S.C. § 1228(b)) only apply to nonpermanent resident aliens.
In addition, only "aggravated felonies" can trigger expedited
removal. But once an alien has been convicted of a criminal
offense, any additional administrative process is unnecessary: a
court has already found, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the alien
has committed the acts which render him removable. Nor is there any
reason to distinguish between aliens who are permanent residents
and aliens who are not: for both types of aliens, the fact of a
criminal conviction suffices to establish that a person is
removable.
This provision would strengthen the existing expedited removal
authorities in several ways. First, it would expand the individuals
subject to expedited removal to include all aliens, not just
nonpermanent residents. Second, it would expand the
expedited-removal-triggering crimes to include some of the offenses
listed in INA § 237(a)(2)(A), (B), (C) & (D), including
possession of controlled substances, firearms offenses, espionage,
sabotage, treason, threats against the President, violations of the
Trading with the Enemy Act, draft evasion, and certain alien
smuggling crimes. Perversely, many of these offenses are far more
serious than "aggravated felonies," and yet at present do not
trigger expedited removal.
In addition, this provision would curtail the authorities for
contested judicial removal currently codified at INA § 238(c)
(8 U.S.C. § 1228(c)). Contested judicial removal has been
seldom utilized because its procedures are unduly cumbersome. They
require the prosecutor and district judge to try immigration relief
issues which are outside their areas of expertiseissues that
particularly in the criminal context are properly committed to the
Attorney General's discretion. The existing process also requires
the INS Commissioner to make multiple submissions, once in
presenting the immigration charges and basis, and then in
responding to any relief request the aliens might make in the
proceeding. The entire process significantly expands the scope of
the criminal trial. The proposal to expand the streamlined
administrative process to cover more aliens and more crimes would
render contested judicial removal largely superfluous. This
amendment would, however, preserve stipulated judicial orders as
under existing subsection (c)(5). The amendment also would correct
a technical error in the section numbering.
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Section 505: Clarification of Continuing Nature of
Failure-to-Depart Offense, and Deletion of Provisions on Suspension
of Sentence.
The existing offense of failing to depart is defined in section
243(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
§ 1253(a)(1)(A)). The statute applies to an alien's failure to
depart "within a period of 90 days from the date of the final
order." While this provision reasonably can be interpreted as a
continuing offense, it is conceivable that aliens who have
willfully remained in the United States for several years after a
final order of removal might claim that prosecution is barred by
the 5 year period of limitations. (18 U.S.C. § 3282).
This amendment would clarify existing law by making it explicit
that a willful failure to depart is a continuing offense.
Specifically, it would amend section 243(a)(1)(A) to expressly
state that it is unlawful for any alien against whom a final order
of removal is outstanding willfully to remain in the United States
more than 90 days after the date of the final order of removal
under administrative processes, or if judicial review is had, then
more than 90 days after the final order of the court.
Subsection (b) of this proposal eliminates the authority of
courts under 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a) to suspend for good cause the
sentence of an alien convicted of failure to depart. This authority
is inconsistent with the general principles of federal sentencing
law, including the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act which, among other
things, abolished suspension of sentence generally for federal
offenses. The ability of courts to suspend sentences for failure to
depart renders the potential criminal penalties for this offense
ineffective. The Department does not expect that subsection (b)
would be applied retroactively to offenders whose offenses occurred
prior to the date of enactment.
Section 506: Additional Removal Authorities.
This section augments the specification of places to which
aliens may be removed under 8 U.S.C. § 123 1(b), to provide
additional options where the alien cannot be removed to any country
currently specified in the statute.
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A BILL
To enhance the domestic security of the United States of
America, and for other purposes.
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of
- America in Congress assembled,
- SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF
CONTENTS.
- (a) SHORT TITLE. -- This Act may be cited as the "Domestic
Security Enhancement Act
- of 2003."
- (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. -- The table of contents of this Act is
as follows:
- Sec. 1. Short Title; Table of Contents.
- TITLE I -- ENHANCING NATIONAL SECURITY
AUTHORITIES
- Subtitle A: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act Amendments
- Sec. 101. Individual Terrorists as Foreign Powers.
- Sec. 102. Clandestine Intelligence Activities by Agent of a
Foreign Power.
- Sec. 103. Strengthening Wartime Authorities Under FISA.
- Sec. 104. Strengthening FISA's Presidential Authorization
Exception.
- Sec. 105. Law Enforcement Use of FISA Information.
- Sec. 106. Defense of Reliance on Authorization.
- Sec. 107. Pen Registers in FISA Investigations.
- Sec. 108. Appointed Counsel in Appeals to FISA Court of
Review.
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- Sec. 109. Enforcement of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court Orders.
- Sec. 110. Technical Correction Related to the USA PATRIOT
Act.
- Sec. 111. International Terrorist Organizations as Foreign
Powers.
- Subtitle B: Enhancement of Law Enforcement
Investigative Tools
- Sec. 121. Definition of Terrorist Activities.
- Sec. 122. Inclusion of Terrorist Activities as Surveillance
Predicates.
- Sec. 123. Extension of Authorized Periods Relating to
Surveillance and Searches in
- Investigations of Terrorist Activities.
- Sec. 124. Multi-function Devices.
- Sec. 125. Nationwide Search Warrants in Terrorism
Investigations.
- Sec. 126. Equal Access to Consumer Credit Reports.
- Sec. 127. Autopsy Authority.
- Sec. 128. Administrative Subpoenas in Terrorism
Investigations
- Sec. 129. Strengthening Access to and Use of Information in
National Security
- Investigations.
- TITLE II -- PROTECTING NATIONAL SECURITY
INFORMATION
- Sec. 201. Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism Investigation
Detainee Information.
- Sec. 202. Distribution of "Worst Case Scenario"
Information.
- Sec. 203. Information Relating to Capitol Buildings.
- Sec. 204. Ex Parte Authorizations Under Classified Information
Procedures Act.
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- Sec. 205. Exclusion of United States Security Requirements from
Gross Income of
- Protected Officials.
- Sec. 206. Grand Jury Information in Terrorism Cases.
- TITLE III -- ENHANCING INVESTIGATIONS OF
TERRORIST PLOTS
- Subtitle A: Terrorism Identification
Database
- Sec. 301. Short Title.
- Sec. 302. Collection and Use of Identification Information from
Suspected Terrorists and
- Other Sources.
- Sec. 303. Establishment of Database to Facilitate Investigation
and Prevention of Terrorist
- Activities.
- Sec. 304. Definitions.
- Sec. 305. Existing Authorities.
- Sec. 306. Conditions of Release.
- Subtitle B: Facilitating Information Sharing and
Cooperation
- Sec. 311. State and Local Information Sharing.
- Sec. 312. Appropriate Remedies with Respect to Law Enforcement
Surveillance Activities.
- Sec. 313. Disclosure of Information.
- Subtitle C: Facilitating International Terrorism
Investigations
- Sec. 321 Authority to Seek Search Warrants and Orders to Assist
Foreign States.
- Sec. 322. Extradition Without Treaties and for Offenses Not
Covered by an Existing Treaty.
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- TITLE IV -- ENHANCING PROSECUTION AND PREVENTION
OF TERRORIST
- CRIMES
- Subtitle A: Increased Penalties and Protections
Against Terrorist Acts
- Sec. 401. Terrorism Hoaxes.
- Sec. 402. Providing Material Support to Terrorism.
- Sec. 403. Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- Sec. 404. Use of Encryption to Conceal Criminal Activity.
- Sec. 405. Presumption for Pretrial Detention in Cases Involving
Terrorism, Firearms,
- Explosives, or Serious Violent Felonies.
- Sec. 406. "Mass Transportation Vehicle" Technical
Correction.
- Sec. 407. Acts of Terrorism Transcending National
Boundaries.
- Sec. 408. Postrelease Supervision of Terrorists.
- Sec. 409. Suspension, revocation, and denial of certificates
for civil aviation or national
- security reasons.
- Sec. 410. No Statute of Limitations for Terrorism
Offenses.
- Sec. 411. Penalties for Terrorist Murders.
- Subtitle B: Incapacitating Terrorism
Financing
- Sec. 421. Increased Penalties for Terrorism Financing.
- Sec. 422. Money Laundering Through Hawalas.
- Sec. 423. Suspension of Tax-Exempt Status of Designated
Terrorist Organizations.
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- Sec. 424. Denial of Federal Benefits to Terrorists.
- Sec. 425. Corrections to Financing of Terrorism Statute.
- Sec. 426: Terrorism-Related Specified Activities for Money
Laundering.
- Sec. 427: Assets of Persons Committing Terrorist Acts Against
Foreign Countries or
- International Organizations.
- Sec. 428: Technical and Conforming Amendments Relating to the
USA PATRIOT ACT.
- TITLE V -- ENHANCING IMMIGRATION AND BORDER
SECURITY
- Sec. 501. Expatriation of Terrorists.
- Sec. 502. Enhanced Criminal Penalties for Violations of
Immigration and Nationality Act.
- Sec. 503. Inadmissibility and Removability of National Security
Aliens or Criminally Charged
- Aliens.
- Sec. 504. Expedited Removal of Criminal Aliens.
- Sec. 505. Clarification of Continuing Nature of
Failure-to-Depart Offense, and Deletion of
- Provisions on Suspension of Sentence.
- Sec. 506. Additional Countries of Removal.
- Title I: Enhancing National Security
Authorities
- Subtitle A: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act Amendments
- Sec. 101: Individual Terrorists as Foreign Powers.
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- Section 101(a)(4) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1801(a)(4)) is amended by inserting "or individual" after
"group".
- Sec. 102: Clandestine Intelligence Activities by Agent of a
Foreign Power.
- Section 101(b)(2)(A) and (B) of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50
- U.S.C. 1801(b)(2)(A) and (B)) are each amended by striking ",
which" and all that follows
- through "States"
- Sec. 103: Strengthening Wartime Authorities Under
FISA.
- Sections 111, 309, and 404 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50
- U.S.C. 1811, 1829, and 1844) are each amended by inserting
after "Congress" the following:
- ", the enactment of legislation authorizing the use of military
force, or an attack on the United
- States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces
creating a national emergency."
- Sec. 104: Strengthening FISA's Presidential Authorization
Exception.
- Section 102(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1802(a)(1)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking ", other than the
spoken communications of
- individuals,".
- Sec. 105: Law Enforcement Use of FISA Information.
- Sections 106(b), 305(c), and 405(b) of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978
- (50 U.S.C. 1806(b), 1825(c), and 1845(b)) are each amended by
striking "the Attorney
- General" and inserting "the Attorney General, the Deputy
Attorney General, the Associate
- Attorney General, or an Assistant Attorney General designated
by the Attorney General".
- Sec. 106: Defense of Reliance on Authorization.
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- (a) Section 109 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1809(b))
- is amended by inserting after "jurisdiction" the following: "or
was authorized by and
- conducted pursuant to the authorization of the President or the
Attorney General".
- (b) Section 307(b) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1827(b)) is amended by inserting after 'jurisdiction" the
following: "or was authorized by and
- conducted pursuant to the authorization of the President or the
Attorney General".
- Sec. 107: Pen Registers in FISA Investigations.
- Section 402(a)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1842(a)(1)) is amended by striking "not concerning" and all
that follows through "intelligence
- activities".
- Sec. 108: Appointed Counsel in Appeals to FISA Court of
Review.
- Section 103(b) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(b))
- is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following:
"The court of review in its
- discretion may appoint counsel, with appropriate security
clearance, to defend the denial of
- the application, and such counsel shall be compensated as
provided for representation in an
- appellate court case under section 3006A(d) of title 18, United
States Code.".
- Sec. 109: Enforcement of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court Orders.
- Section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803) is
- amended by --
- (1) redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
- (2) inserting after subsection (c) the following:
- "(d) Enforcement of court's orders.
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- "The court established by subsection (a) shall have the same
authority as a United States
- district court to enforce its orders, including the authority
to punish any disobedience of such
- orders as contempt of court.".
- Sec. 110: Technical Correction Related to the USA PATRIOT
Act.
- Section 224(a) of Pub. L. 107-56 is amended by inserting "204,"
before "205".
- Sec. 111. International Terrorist Organizations as Foreign
Powers.
- (a) Section 101(i) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1801(i)) is amended by striking "or (3)" and inserting "(3), or
(4)".
- (b) Section 105(e) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1805(e)) is amended --
- (1) in paragraph (1), by striking "or (3)" and inserting "(3),
or (4)"; and
- (2) in paragraph (2), by striking "or against a foreign power
as defined in section
- 101(a)(4) that is not a United States person,".
- (c) Section 304(d) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
of 1978 (50 U.S.C.
- 1824(d)) is amended --
- (1) in paragraph (1), by striking "or (3)" and inserting "(3),
or (4)"; and
- (2) in paragraph (2), by striking "or against a foreign power,
as defined in section
- 101(a)(4), that is not a United States person,".
- Subtitle B: Enhancement of Law Enforcement
Surveillance Tools
- Sec. 121: Definition of Terrorist Activities.
- (a) Section 2510 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
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- (1) by redesignating paragraphs (20) and (21) as paragraphs
(22) and (23)
- respectively; and
- (2) by inserting after paragraph (19) the following:
- "(20) 'terrorist activities' means an offense described in
section
- 2332b(g)(5)(B), an offense involved in or related to domestic
or international terrorism as
- defined in section 2331, or a conspiracy or attempt to engage
in such conduct;
- "(21) 'criminal investigation' includes any investigation of
terrorist activities;".
- (b) Section 3127(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by inserting "'terrorist
- activities', 'criminal investigation'," after "service',".
- Sec. 122: Inclusion of Terrorist Activities as Surveillance
Predicates.
- (a) Section 2516 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (1)
- (A) in paragraph (c)
- (i) by inserting before "section 1992 (relating to wrecking
trains)" the
- following: "section 37 (relating to violence at international
airports), section
- 930(c) (relating to attack on federal facility with firearm),
section 956 (conspiracy
- to harm persons or property overseas),"; and
- (ii) by inserting before "a felony violation of section 1028"
the following:
- "section 1993 (relating to mass transportation systems),".
- (B) in paragraph (q), by striking all that follows the
semicolon;
- (C) by redesignating paragraph (r) as paragraph (s); and
- (D) by inserting after paragraph (q) the following:
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- "(r) terrorist activities; or"; and
- (2) in subsection (2)
- (A) by inserting "or activities" before "as to which", and
- (B) by inserting "terrorist activities or" before "the
commission".
- (b) Section 2518(7)(a) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended --
- (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) as
subparagraphs (iii) and (iv)
- respectively; and
- (2) by inserting after subparagraph (i) the following:
- "(ii) terrorist activities,".
- (c) Section 3123(b)(1)(D) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting "or
- activities" after "offense".
- (d) Section 3125(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended --
- (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking "or" at the end;
- (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (D);
and
- (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
- "(B) terrorist activities;
- "(C) conspiratorial activities threatening the national
security interest; or".
- (t) Section 3127(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended to read as
- follows:
- "(A) any district court of the United States (including a
magistrate judge of such a
- court) or any United States court of appeals that--
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- "(i) has jurisdiction over the offense or activities being
investigated;
- "(ii) is in or for a district in which the provider of wire or
electronic
- communication service is located; or
- "(iii) is in or for a district in which a landlord, custodian,
or other person
- subject to section 3124(a) or (b) is located; or".
- Sec. 123: Extension of Authorized Periods Relating to
Surveillance and Searches in
- Investigations of Terrorist Activities.
- (a) Section 2518 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (5)
- (A) in the first sentence, by inserting "or, in the case of an
interception relating to
- terrorist activities, ninety days" after "thirty days";
- (B) in the second sentence, by striking "Such thirty-day period
begins" and
- inserting "These periods begin";
- (C) in the fourth sentence, by inserting "or, in the case of an
interception relating
- to terrorist activities, ninety days" after "thirty days";
and
- (D) in the fifth sentence
- (i) by striking "practicable," and inserting "practicable and";
and
- (ii) by striking ", and must terminate" and all that follows
through "thirty
- days."; and
- (2) in subsection (6), by inserting in the second sentence
after "require" the following:
- "so long as no interval is less than thirty days in the case of
an interception relating to
- terrorist activities".
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- (b) Section 2705(a)(2)(A) and (b)(1) of title 18, United States
Code, are amended by
- inserting "or the national security" after "individual".
- (c) Section 3123(c)(1) and (2) of title 18, United States Code,
are amended by inserting
- after "or, in an investigation of terrorist activities, 120
days" after "sixty days".
- Sec. 124: Multi-function Devices
- (a) Section 2518(4) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by inserting at the end the
- following: "Where a communication device to be monitored under
an order authorizing the
- interception of a wire, oral, or electronic communication is
capable of performing multiple
- functions, communications transmitted or received through any
function performed by the
- device may be intercepted and accessed unless the order
specifies otherwise and, upon a
- showing as for a search warrant, the order may authorize the
retrieval of other information
- (whether or not constituting or derived from a communication
whose interception the order
- authorizes) from the device.".
- (b) Section 2703 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (a), by striking "court with jurisdiction
over the offense under
- investigation or equivalent State warrant" and inserting "court
in a district in which the
- provider is located or that has jurisdiction over the offense
or activities under
- investigation or equivalent State warrant or pursuant to a
court order issued under
- section 2518"; and
- (2) in subsections (b)(1)(A) and (c)(1)(A), by striking "court
with jurisdiction over
- the offense under investigation or equivalent State warrant"
and inserting "court in a
- district in which the provider is located or that has
jurisdiction over the offense or
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- activities under investigation or equivalent State warrant or a
court order issued under
- section 2518".
- (c) Section 3123(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by inserting at the end the
- following as a flush last sentence: "Where the order relates
t& a communication device
- capable of performing multiple functions, a pen register or
trap and trace device may be used
- with respect to communications transmitted or received through
any function of the device
- unless the order specifies otherwise.".
- Sec. 125: Nationwide Search Warrants in Terrorism
Investigations.
- Rule 41 (a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is
amended --
- (1) by inserting "or of an offense listed in 18 U.S.C. §
2332b(g)(5)(B))" after
- "2331)"; and
- (2) by inserting "or offense" after "the terrorism".
- Sec. 126: Equal Access to Consumer Credit Reports.
- Section 168 1b(a)(1) of title 15, United States Code is amended
by striking "grand jury"
- and inserting "grand jury, or the request of a law enforcement
officer upon his certification
- that the information will be used only in connection with his
duties to enforce federal law, in
- which case the disclosure to such law enforcement officer will
not be disclosed to the
- consumer to whom such report relates without further order of a
federal court".
- Sec. 127: Autopsy Authority.
- (a) Chapter 31 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the
- following:
- "§ 530C. Autopsy authority in criminal investigations
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- "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney
General may, when
- deemed necessary or appropriate in the conduct of a criminal
investigation, take
- custody of, and order an autopsy and related scientific or
medical tests to be
- performed on the body of, a deceased person. To the extent
consistent with the needs
- of the autopsy or of specific scientific or medical tests, the
Attorney General shall
- take such steps as necessary to respect the provisions of any
applicable law protecting
- religious beliefs of the deceased person or the deceased
persons family. Before
- ordering an autopsy or related tests under this section, the
Attorney General shall
- endeavor to inform the family of the deceased person, if known,
that the autopsy shall
- be performed. After the autopsy and any related tests have been
performed, the
- remains of the deceased person shall be returned as soon as
practicable to that
- deceased person's family, if known.".
- (b) The table of sections for chapter 31 of title 28, United
States Code, is amended by
- inserting at the end: "530C. Autopsy authority in criminal
investigations.".
- Sec. 128. Administrative Subpoenas in Terrorism
Investigations.
- (a) [N GENERAL- Chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by inserting
- after section 2332e the following:
- "Sec. 2332f. Administrative subpoenas in terrorism
investigations.
- "(a) AUTHORIZATION OF USE--In any investigation with respect an
offense listed in
- section 2332b(g)(5)(B) or an offense involved in or related to
international or domestic
- terrorism as defined in section 2331, the Attorney General may
subpoena witnesses, compel
- the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and require the
production of any records
- (including books, papers, documents, electronic data, and other
tangible things that constitute
- or contain evidence) that he finds relevant or material to the
investigation. A subpoena under
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- this section shall describe the records or items required to be
produced and prescribe a return
- date within a reasonable period of time within which the
records or items can be assembled
- and made available. The attendance of witnesses and the
production of records may be
- required from any place in any State or in any territory or
other place subject to the
- jurisdiction of the United States at any designated place of
hearing; except that a witness shall
- not be required to appear at any hearing more than 500 miles
distant from the place where he
- was served with a subpoena. Witnesses summoned under this
section shall be paid the same
- fees and mileage that are paid to witnesses in the courts of
the United States.
- "(b) SERVICE--A subpoena issued under this section may be
served by any person
- designated in the subpoena as the agent of service. Service
upon a natural person may be
- made by personal delivery of the subpoena to him or by
certified mail with return receipt
- requested. Service may be made upon a domestic or foreign
corporation or upon a
- partnership or other unincorporated association that is subject
to suit under a common name,
- by delivering the subpoena to an officer, to a managing or
general agent, or to any other
- agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of
process. The affidavit of the
- person serving the subpoena entered by him on a true copy
thereof shall be sufficient proof of
- service.
- "(c) ENFORCEMENT--In the case of the contumacy by, or refusal
to obey a subpoena
- issued to, any person, the Attorney General may invoke the aid
of any court of the United
- States within whose jurisdiction the investigation is carried
on or the subpoenaed person
- resides, carries on business, or may be found, to compel
compliance with the subpoena. The
- court may issue an order requiring the subpoenaed person, in
accordance with the subpoena,
- to appear, to produce records, or to give testimony touching
the matter under investigation.
- Any failure to obey the order of the court may be punished by
the court as contempt thereof
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- Any process under this subsection may be served in any judicial
district in which the person
- may be found.
- "(d) NON-DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS--No person shall disclose to
any other
- person that a subpoena was received or records provided
pursuant to this section, other than
- to (i) those persons to whom such disclosure is necessary in
order to comply with the
- subpoena, (ii) an attorney to obtain legal advice with respect
to testimony or the production
- of records in response to the subpoena, and (iii) other persons
as permitted by the Attorney
- General. Any person who receives a disclosure under this
subsection shall be subject to the
- same prohibition of disclosure.
- "(e) IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY- Any person, including
officers, agents, and
- employees, who in good faith produce the records or items
requested in a subpoena shall not
- be liable in any court of any State or the United States to any
customer or other person for
- such production or for non-disclosure of that production to the
customer or other person, in
- compliance with the terms of a court order for
non-disclosure.".
- (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT- The analysis for
chapter 113B
- of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after
the item relating to section
- 2332e the following:
- "Sec. 2332f. Administrative subpoenas in terrorism
investigations".
- Sec. 129: Strengthening Access to and Use of Information in
National Security
- Investigations.
- (a) VIOLATION OF NONDISCLOSURE PROVISIONS FOR NATIONAL
- SECURITY LETTERS AND COURT ORDERS. -- Section 1510 of title 18,
United States
- Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
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- "(e) Whoever violates section 2709(c) or 2332f(d) of this
title, section 625(d) or 626(c)
- of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, section 1114(a)(3) or (5)(D)
of the Right to Financial
- Privacy Act, section 802(b) of the National Security Act of
1947, or section 501(d) of the
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, shall be
imprisoned for not more than one
- year, and if the violation is committed with the intent to
obstruct an investigation or judicial
- proceeding, shall be imprisoned for not more than. five
years.".
- (b) JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS. --
Chapter
- 113B of title 18, United States Code, is amended --
- (1) in the chapter analysis, by inserting before the item
relating to section 2333 the
- following:
- "2332g. Enforcement of requests for information."; and
- (2) by inserting before section 2333 the following:
- "§ 2332g. Enforcement of requests for
information
- "In the case of a refusal to comply with a request for records,
a report, or other
- information made to any person under section 2709(b) of this
title, section 625(a) or (b) or
- 626(a) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, section 1114(a)(5)(A)
of the Right to Financial
- Privacy Act, or section 802(a) of the National Security Act of
1947, the Attorney General
- may invoke the aid of any court of the United States within
whose jurisdiction the
- investigation is carried on or the person resides, carries on
business, or may be found, to
- compel compliance with the request. The court may issue an
order requiring the person to
- comply with the request. Any failure to obey the order of the
court may be punished by the
- court as contempt thereof. Any process under this section maybe
served in any judicial
- district in which the person may be found.".
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- (c) USE OF NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS IN THE INVESTIGATION
OF
- TERRORIST ACTIVITIES. -- (1) Section 2709(b)(1) and (2) of
title 18, United States
- Code, are each amended by striking "international terrorism"
and inserting "terrorist activities
- (as defined in section 2510)".
- (2) Sections 625(a), (b), and (c) and 626(a) of the Fair Credit
Reporting Act (15
- U.S.C. 1681u(a), (b), and (c) and 1681v(a)) are each amended by
striking "international
- terrorism" and inserting "terrorist activities (as defined in
section 2510 of title 18, United
- States Code)".
- (3) Section 1114(a) of the Right to Financial Privacy Act (12
U.S.C. 3414(a)) is
- amended --
- (A) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking "international terrorism"
and inserting
- "terrorist activities (as defined in section 2510 of title 18,
United States Code)"; and
- (B) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking "for foreign counter
intelligence purposes to
- protect against international terrorism" and inserting "to
protect against terrorist
- activities".
- (d) SHARING OF INTELLIGENCE AMONG FEDERAL AGENCIES. -- (1)
Section
- 2709(d) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
"for foreign" and all that
- follows through "such agency".
- (2) Section 625(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C.
1681u(f)) is amended --
- by striking "not" and all that follows through "investigation."
and inserting the following:
- "disseminate information obtained pursuant to this section only
as provided in guidelines
- approved by the Attorney General.".
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- (3) Section 626(a) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C.
1681v(a)) is amended --
- by striking "conduct or such investigation, activity or
analysis" and inserting the
- following: "conduct of such investigation, activity or
analysis, and such government
- agency may disclose the contents of that report or information
to another government
- agency authorized to engage in such investigation, activity or
analysis".
- (4) Section 1114(a)(5)(B) of the Right to Financial Privacy Act
(12 U.S.C.
- 3414(a)(5)(B)) is amended by striking "for foreign" and all
that follows through "such
- agency"
- (5) Section 802(e)(3) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50
U.S.C. 436(e)(3)) is
- amended by striking "clearly".
- Title II: Protecting National Security
Information
- Sec. 201: Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism
Investigation Detainee Information.
- Notwithstanding section 552 of title 5, United States Code, or
any other provision of law,
- no officer, employee, or agency of the United States shall
disclose, without the prior
- determination of the Attorney General or the Director of
Central Intelligence that such
- disclosure will not adversely impact the national security
interests of the United States, the
- names or other identifying information relating to any alien
who is detained within the United
- States, or any individual who is detained outside the United
States, in the course of any
- investigation of international terrorism until such time as
such individual is served with a
- criminal indictment or information.
- Sec. 202: Distribution of "Worst Case Scenario"
Information.
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- (a) SHORT TITLE. This section may be cited as the "Community
Protection from
- Chemical Terrorism Act."
- (b) FINDINGS. Congress finds that
- (1) the nationwide threat of terrorist attacks has greatly
increased since September 11,
- 2001;
- (2) government-mandated publicly available information on
worst-case scenario
- accidents at chemical facilities provides a blueprint that
terrorists may use to plan and
- carry out terrorist attacks;
- (3) improved protections are necessary to prevent terrorists
from using information
- described in paragraph (2) to target and attack local
communities; and
- (4) while communities have a right to know about the use of
chemicals in their
- communities, communities also have the right not to allow
terrorists to use such
- information to destroy the communities.
- (c) SAFE USAGE OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION. Section 112(r)(7) of
the Clean
- Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(r)(7)) is amended by deleting
subparagraph (H) and inserting in lieu
- thereof
- "(H) ACCESS TO OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION
- --
- "(i) DEFINITIONS -- In this subparagraph:
- "(I) CRIMINAL RELEASE -- The term 'criminal release' means
an
- emission of a regulated substance into the ambient air from a
stationary source
- that is caused, in whole or in part, by a criminal act.
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- "(II) DISTANCE TO ENDPOINT -- The term 'distance to
endpoint'
- means the radius of the area of an accidental release or a
criminal release.
- "(III) MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC -- The term 'member of the
public'
- means --
- "(aa) an individual who is not an official user; and
- "(bb) an official user who is not carrying out an official
use.
- "(IV) OFFICIAL USE -- The term 'official use' means an action
of a
- Federal, State, or local government agency, or an entity
referred to in
- subclause (V)(ee), that is intended to carry out a function
necessary to
- prevent, plan for, or respond to an accidental release or a
criminal release.
- "(V) OFFICIAL USER- The term 'official user' means
- "(aa) an officer or employee of the United States;
- "(bb) an officer or employee of an agent or contractor of the
United
- States;
- "(cc) an officer or employee of a State or local
government;
- "(dd) an officer or employee of an agent or contractor of a
State or
- local government; and
- "(ee) an officer or employee or an agent or contractor of an
entity that
- has been given, by a State or local government, responsibility
for
- preventing, planning for, or responding to accidental releases
or criminal
- releases.
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- "(VI) OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION -- The
- term 'off-site consequence analysis information' means
- "(aa) any information in a risk management plan, including in
the
- executive summary of the plan, that consists of, identifies, or
describes or
- identifies, with respect to a worst-case or alternative release
scenario for a
- toxic release or flammable release
- "(AA) the name, physical state, or concentration of a
chemical;
- "(BB) the quantity released, release rate, or duration of the
release;
- "(CC) the topography, whether urban or rural;
- "(DD) the distance to endpoint;
- "(EE) the estimated residential population, public receptors,
or
- environmental receptors within the distance to endpoint;
- "(FF) any map or other graphic depiction used to illustrate
a
- scenario; and
- "(GG) the prevention program designed to prevent or mitigate
the
- release; and
- "(bb) any information derived from the information described in
item
- (aa) (including any statewide or national ranking of stationary
sources
- derived from the information described in item (aa)) that is
not publicly
- available from a source other than a risk management plan.
- "(VII) READ-ONLY ACCESS -The term 'read-only access' means
- access that --
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- "(aa) allows the reading of information; but
- "(bb) does not allow removal, mechanical reproduction, or
other
- duplication (including notetaking) of information.
- "(VIII) RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN -- The term 'risk management
- plan' means a risk management plan registered with the
Administrator by an
- owner or operator of a stationary source under subparagraph
(B)(iii).
- "(IX) STATE OR LOCAL OFFICIAL USER -- The term 'State or
local
- official user' means an official user described in any of items
(cc) through (ee)
- of subclause (V).
- "(ii) AVAILABILITY UNDER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT --
- "(I) IN GENERAL -- Off-site consequence analysis information
shall not
- be made available under section 552 of title 5, United States
Code.
- "(II) APPLICABILITY -- Subclause (VI) applies to off-site
consequence
- analysis information obtained or developed by the Administrator
before, on, or
- after the date of enactment of this subparagraph.
- "(iii) ACCESS BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO OFF-SITE
- CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION -- Except as provided in
this
- clause, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no member
of the public shall
- have access to offsite consequence analysis information. The
Administrator, in
- consultation with the Attorney General, shall establish
procedures to allow a
- member of the public read-only access to offsite consequence
analysis
- information that does not disclose the identity or location of
any facility or any
- information from which the identity or location of any facility
could be deduced.
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- "(iv) ACCESS BY STATE OR LOCAL OFFICIAL USERS TO OFF-SITE
- CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION -- The Administrator shall
allow
- access by a State or local official user, for official use, to
off-site consequence
- analysis information relating to stationary sources located in
the State or local
- official user's State or in a contiguous State, or in any case
where the off-site
- consequence analysis indicates that release would require,
under existing mutual
- aid agreements, a response by that State or local
jurisdiction.
- "(v) PROHIBITION ON DISCLOSURE BY OFFICIAL USERS
- "(I) IN GENERAL
- "(aa) PROHIBITION -- No official user shall knowingly
disclose
- off-site consequence analysis information in any form to any
member of
- the public, except to the extent that such disclosure is for
official use or is
- otherwise authorized under this subparagraph.
- "(bb) EXTENT OF DISCLOSURE FOR OFFICIAL USE -- Under
- item (aa), an official user may disclose for official use only
the quantity of
- off-site consequence analysis information that is necessary for
the purpose
- of preventing, planning for, or responding to accidental
releases or
- criminal releases.
- "(II) CRIMINAL PENALTIES -- Notwithstanding section 113, a
violation
- of subclause (I) shall be punished as a Class A misdemeanor
under section
- 3559 of title 18, United States Code.
- "(III) NOTICE -- The Administrator shall provide to each
official user
- who receives off-site consequence analysis information --
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- "(aa) notice of the definition of official use and examples of
actions
- that do and actions that do not fall within that definition;
and
- "(bb) notice of the prohibition established by subclause (I)
and the
- penalties established by subclause (II).
- "(vi) EFFECT ON STATE OR LOCAL LAW
- "(I) IN GENERAL -- Subject to subclause (II), this
subparagraph
- supersedes any provision of State or local law that is
inconsistent with this
- subparagraph.
- "(II) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION UNDER STATE LAW
- Nothing in this subparagraph precludes a State from making
available data on
- the off-site consequences of chemical releases collected in
accordance with
- State law.
- "(N) AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION- Information that is
- developed by the Attorney General, or requested by the Attorney
General and
- received from a covered stationary source, for the purpose of
preparing the
- report or conducting the review under this clause, shall not be
disclosed or
- released under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U. S.C.
552).
- "(vii) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS -- There are authorized
to
- be appropriated to the Administrator and the Attorney General
such sums as are
- necessary to carry out this subparagraph, to remain available
until expended.".
- Sec. 203: Information Relating to Capitol Buildings
- Notwithstanding section 552 of title 5, United States Code, or
any other provision of law,
- information provided by the Office of Compliance or the
Architect of the Capitol to any
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- officer, employee or agency of the Executive Branch of
government relating to the United
- States Capitol and related buildings, shall not be disclosed
under section 552(a) of title 5
- United States Code, by such Executive Branch officer, employee
or agency.
- Sec. 204: Ex Parte Authorizations Under Classified
Information Procedures Act.
- Section 4 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (18
U.S.C. App. 3) is hereby
- amended by deleting the "may" in the second sentence and
inserting "shall".
- Sec. 205: Exclusion of United States Security Requirements
from Gross Income of
- Protected Officials
- The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended --
- (a) by redesignating section 140 as section 141, and
- (b) by inserting after section 139 the following:
- "§ 140 Personnel security interests of the United
States
- "Gross income shall not include any amount expended from
appropriated funds
- that the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and
the Director of Central
- Intelligence, or their designees, shall jointly determine is
required to provide for the
- security of officers or employees of the United States and
otherwise in the interests of
- the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney
General and the
- Director of Central Intelligence, acting jointly, may determine
the scope of protective
- services required by class of official or otherwise, and such
determinations shall not
- be publicly disclosed."
- Sec. 206. Grand Jury Information in Terrorism
Cases.
- Rule 6(e)(2)(B) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is
amended --
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- (1) in clause (vi), by striking "or" at the end;
- (2) in clause (vii), by striking the period at the end and
inserting"; or"; and
- (3) by inserting at the end the following:
- "(viii) a witness or a person to whom a subpoena is directed,
if there is
- reason to believe that otherwise there may result a danger to
the national
- security or to the life or physical safety of an individual,
flight from
- prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence,
intimidation of a
- potential witness, or other serious jeopardy to an
investigation and if the
- witness or person is notified of the prohibition of disclosure.
Such a witness
- or person may consult with counsel prior to testifying before
the grand jury or
- responding to the subpoena and shall notify such counsel of the
prohibition of
- disclosure, and such counsel shall be subject to the same
prohibition of
- disclosure.".
- Title III: Enhancing Investigations of
Terrorist Plots
- Subtitle A: Terrorism Identification
Database
- Sec. 301: Short Title.
- This Subtitle may be cited as the "Terrorist Identification
Database Act of 2003."
- Sec. 302: Collection and Use of Identification Information
from Suspected Terrorists
- and Other Sources.
- (a) COLLECTION AND RECEIPT OF DNA SAMPLES, FINGERPRINTS,
AND
- OTHER INFORMATION. --
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- (1) COLLECTION FROM SUSPECTED TERRORISTS IN CUSTODY OR
- UNDER SUPERVISION OR ON CONDITIONAL RELEASE. --
- (A) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. -- The Attorney General, and any
other
- official or agency designated by the Attorney General, shall
have the authority to
- collect DNA samples, fingerprints, and other identification
information from any
- suspected terrorist who is in the custody of the Attorney
General, the United States
- Marshal Service, the Bureau of Prisons, or the Immigration and
Naturalization
- Service. A Federal official or agency so designated by the
Attorney General shall
- collect DNA samples, fingerprints, and other identification
information from any such
- person as directed by the Attorney General.
- (B) PROBATION OFFICERS. -- Upon the request of the Attorney
General, the
- probation office responsible for the supervision under Federal
law of an individual on
- probation, parole, or supervised release shall collect DNA
samples, fingerprints, and
- other identification information from any suspected
terrorist.
- (C) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. -- The Secretary of Defense, and any
other
- official or agency within the Department of Defense designated
by the Secretary, shall
- have the authority to collect DNA samples, fingerprints, and
other identification
- information from any suspected terrorist who is in the custody
of, or being detained
- by, the Department of Defense. A Federal official or agency so
designated by the
- Secretary shall collect DNA samples, fingerprints, and other
identification information
- from any such person as directed by the Secretary.
- (D) COLLECTION PROCEDURES. -- Any official authorized under
paragraph
- (A), (B), or (C) to collect a DNA sample from a suspected
terrorist may use or
- authorize the use of such means as are reasonably necessary to
collect a DNA sample
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- from any such suspected terrorist who refuses to cooperate in
the collection of the
- sample.
- (E) CRIMINAL PENALTY. -- An individual from whom the collection
of a
- DNA sample is authorized under subsection (a)(1) who fails to
cooperate in the
- collection of that sample shall be
- (i) guilty of a class A misdemeanor; and
- (ii) punished in accordance with title 18, United States
Code.
- (2) COLLECTION OR RECEIPT OF OTHER IDENTIFICATION
- INFORMATION. -- The Attorney General, the Secretary of Defense,
or other
- designated official or agency, may also collect and receive,
either directly or from another
- Federal, State, local, or foreign government agency, or other
appropriate source
- (A) DNA samples, fingerprints, and other identification
information of any
- suspected terrorist, regardless of whether he or she is in
custody or under supervision,
- where such samples or information are voluntarily provided by
the suspected terrorist
- or otherwise lawfully acquired from any source;
- (B) DNA samples, fingerprints, and other identification
information that have
- been recovered from the scenes of terrorist activities,
including unidentified human
- remains, or that have been recovered from any item that may
have been handled by a
- suspected terrorist; and
- (C) DNA samples, fingerprints, and other identification
information of any
- person, where such samples or information are voluntarily
provided by the person and
- may assist in the investigation and identification of
terrorists and the prevention of
- terrorism.
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- (b) COLLECTION, ANALYSIS, STORAGE, AND MAINTENANCE OF DNA
- SAMPLES, FINGERPRINTS, AND OTHER INFORMATION.
- (1) ANALYSIS AND USE OF SAMPLES. -- The Attorney General shall
have the
- authority to analyze DNA samples, fingerprints, and other
information collected or
- received under subsection (a) or that has been lawfully
acquired under any other source
- of law. Any such analysis of DNA samples shall be conducted in
conformity with the
- quality assurance standards issued by the Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
- under section 210303 of the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994
- (42 U.S.C. 14131).
- (2) AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER ENTITIES CONCERNING DNA SAMPLES.
- -- The Attorney General may enter into agreements with Federal
agencies, with units of
- State or local government, or with private entities, to assist
in the collection, analysis,
- storage, or maintenance of the DNA samples described in
paragraph (1).
- Sec. 303: Establishment of Database to Facilitate
Investigation and Prevention of
- Terrorist Activities.
- (a) DATABASES.
- (1) The Attorney General may establish one or more databases of
DNA records,
- fingerprints, and other identification information
- (A) that was collected or received under section 2(a);
- (B) that was obtained as a result of any analysis conducted
under section 2(b);
- and
- (C) that is information of the kind described in section 2(a)
or 2(b), but which
- may have been collected or received before the effective date
of this Act.
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- (2) Any federal agency, including the Department of Defense and
any probation
- office, shall provide to the Attorney General, for inclusion in
such databases as may be
- established, any DNA records, fingerprints, and other
identification information described
- in paragraph (1). As directed by the Attorney General, any DNA
records, fingerprints,
- and other identification information described in paragraph (1)
shall be included in the
- databases authorized by this section.
- (b) USES. --
- (1) GENERALLY. -- The Attorney General may use DNA records,
fingerprints, and
- other identification information contained in the databases
described in subsection (a) for
- the purposes of detecting, investigating, prosecuting,
preventing, or responding to
- terrorist activities, or other criminal or unlawful activities
by suspected terrorists, and may
- share the information with other Federal, State, local, or
foreign agencies only for these
- purposes. In addition, the Attorney General may use and
disclose the information for
- other purposes and to other entities and persons to the extent
permitted by law.
- (2) DATABASE SEARCHES. -. The Attorney General may search
information in
- the databases described in subsection (a) against the national
DNA index established by
- section 210304 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Act of 1994 (42
- U.S.C. 14132), the Integrated Automated Fingerprint
Identification System of the Federal
- Bureau of Investigation, other databases maintained by Federal,
State, or local law
- enforcement agencies, and other appropriate databases as
determined by the Attorney
- General. Authorized searches of any such DNA, fingerprint, law
enforcement, or other
- appropriate database as determined by the Attorney General may
also be made against the
- databases described in subsection (a).
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- (3) POPULATION STATISTICS DATABASE. -- If personally
identifiable
- information is removed, the DNA records maintained in the
databases described in
- subsection (a) may be used and disclosed for quality control
and protocol development
- purposes and for a population statistics database
- (c) RELATION TO OTHER LAWS.
- (1) IN GENERAL. -- Except as provided in paragraph (2), DNA
samples and records
- and other information described in this section may be used and
disclosed in conformity
- with this section, notwithstanding any limitation on the use or
disclosure of such samples,
- records, or information under the DNA Identification Act of
1994 (42 U.S.C. 14131-
- 14134), the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (42
U.S.C. 14135-14135e),
- or any other law.
- (2) RELATION TO THE PRIVACY ACT. --
- (A) The databases established under this section shall be
deemed to be systems of
- records within the full scope of the exemption in subsection
(j)(2) of section 552a of
- title 5, United States Code (the Privacy Act), and therefore
exempt from any
- provisions of such section other than those specifically
enumerated in such subsection
- (j)(2).
- (B) Section 552a of title 5, United States Code, is amended
--
- (i) in subsection (a)(8)(B) --
- (I) by striking "or" at the end of subparagraph (vii);
- (II) by adding "or" at the end of subparagraph (viii); and
- (III) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
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- "(ix) matches performed pursuant to section 3 of the
Terrorist
- Identification Database Act of 2002;"; and
- (ii) in subsection (b)(7)
- (I) by striking "to another" and inserting "(A) to
another";
- (II) by striking "sought;" and inserting "sought; or"; and
- (III) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
- "(B) pursuant to section 3 of the Terrorist Identification
Database
- Act of 2002;".
- Sec. 304: Definitions.
- As used in this Act:
- (1) The term "DNA sample" means a tissue, fluid, or other
bodily sample of an individual
- on which a DNA analysis can be carried out.
- (2) The term "DNA analysis" means analysis of the
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
- identification information in a bodily sample.
- (3) The term "suspected terrorist" means any person as to whom
the Attorney General or
- the Secretary of Defense, as appropriate, has determined that
there is reason to. believe
- (A) has engaged in terrorism as defined in section 2331(1) or
2331(5) of title 18,
- United States Code, or has committed an offense described in
section 2332b(g)(5)(B) of
- such title, or who has conspired or attempted to do so;
- (B) is an enemy combatant, a prisoner of war, or other
battlefield detainee;
- (C) is a member of a terrorist organization designated as such
pursuant to section 219
- of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
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- (D) is an alien who is described in section 212(a)(3)(A)(i),
212(a)(3)(A)(iii),
- 212(a)(3)(B), 212(a)(3)(F), 237(A)(4)(a)(i), 237(a)(4)(iii), or
237(a)(4)(B) of the
- Immigration and Nationality Act, or who is engaged in any other
activity that endangers
- the national security of the United States.
- Sec. 305: Existing Authorities.
- The authorities granted under this Act are in addition to any
authorities that may exist
- under any other source of law. Nothing in this Act shall be
construed to preclude the receipt,
- collection, analysis, maintenance, or dissemination of evidence
or information pursuant to any
- other source of law.
- Sec. 306: Conditions of Release.
- (a) CONDITIONS OF PROBATION. -- Section 3563(a)(9) of title 18,
United States
- Code, is amended by striking the period at the end and
inserting "or section 3 of the Terrorist
- Identification Database Act of 2002.".
- (b) CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE. -- Section 3583(d) of
title 18, United
- States Code, is amended by striking the period after "the DNA
Analysis Backlog Elimination
- Act of 2000" and inserting "or section 3 of the Terrorist
Identification Database Act of
- 2002.".
- (c) CONDITIONS OF PAROLE. -- Section 4209 of title 18, United
States Code, insofar
- as such section remains in effect with respect to certain
individuals, is amended by inserting
- before "or section 1565 of title 10." the following: ", section
3 of the Terrorist Identification
- Database Act of 2002,".
- (d) CONDITIONS OF RELEASE GENERALLY. -- If the collection of a
DNA sample
- from an individual under any form of supervision or conditional
release is authorized pursuant
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- to section 2(a) of this Act, the individual shall cooperate in
the collection of a DNA sample as
- a condition of that supervision or conditional release.
- Subtitle B: Facilitating Information Sharing and
Cooperation
- Sec. 311: State and Local Information Sharing.
- (a) CONSUMER INFORMATION. -Section 626(a) of the Fair Credit
Reporting Act
- (15 U.S.C. 1681v(a)) is amended by adding at the end the
following: "The recipient of that
- consumer report or information may further disclose the
contents of that report or
- information to law enforcement personnel of a State or
political subdivision of a State
- (including the chief executive officer of that State or
political subdivision who has the
- authority to appoint or direct the chief law enforcement
officer of that State or political
- subdivision) to assist the official receiving that information
in the performance of the official
- duties of that official. Any chief executive officer or law
enforcement personnel of a State or
- political subdivision of a State who receives information
pursuant to this subsection shall only
- use that information consistent with such guidelines as the
Attorney General shall issue to
- protect confidentiality.".
- (b) VISA INFORMATION. -- Section 222(f) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8
- U.S.C. 1202 (f)) is amended --
- (1) in paragraph (1), by striking the period at the end and
inserting a semicolon;
- (2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
- (3) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
- "(2) the Secretary of State may provide copies of any record of
the
- Department of State and of diplomatic and consular offices of
the United States
- pertaining to the issuance or refusal of visas or permits to
enter the United States,
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- or any information contained in those records, to law
enforcement personnel of a
- State or political subdivision of a State (including the chief
executive officer of
- that State or political subdivision who has the authority to
appoint or direct the
- chief law enforcement officer of that State or political
subdivision) to assist the
- official receiving that information in the performance of the
official duties of that
- official, and any chief executive officer or law enforcement
personnel of a State or
- political subdivision of a State who receives information
pursuant to this
- paragraph shall only use that information consistent with such
guidelines as the
- Attorney General shall issue to protect confidentiality;
and"
- (c) EDUCATIONAL RECORDS INFORMATION. -- Section 444(j)(1)(B) of
the
- General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g(j)(1)(B)) and
section 408(c)(1)(B) of
- the National Education Statistics Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C.
9007(c)(1)(B)) are each amended --
- (1) by inserting after "disseminate" the following: "(including
disclosure of such
- reports, records, and information to law enforcement personnel
of a State or political
- subdivision of a State, including the chief executive officer
of that State or political
- subdivision who has the authority to appoint or direct the
chief law enforcement officer of
- that State or political subdivision, to assist the official
receiving that information in the
- performance of the official duties of that official)"; and
- (2) by adding at the end the following: "Any chief executive
officer or law
- enforcement personnel of a State or political subdivision of a
State who receives
- information pursuant to this paragraph shall only use that
information consistent with
- those guidelines.".
- Sec. 312: Appropriate Remedies with Respect to Law
Enforcement Surveillance
- Activities
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- (a) Requirements for relief. --
- (1) Prospective relief. --
- (A) Prospective relief in any civil action with respect to law
enforcement
- surveillance activities shall extend no further than necessary
to correct the current and
- ongoing violation of the Federal right of a particular
plaintiff or plaintiffs. The court
- shall not grant or approve any prospective relief unless the
court finds that such relief
- is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct
the violation of the
- Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to
correct the violation of the
- Federal right. The court shall give substantial weight to any
adverse impact on
- national security, public safety, or the operation of a
criminal justice system caused by
- the relief.
- (B) The court shall not order any prospective relief that
requires a government
- official to refrain from exercising his authority under
applicable law, unless
- (i) Federal law requires such relief to be ordered;
- (ii) the relief is necessary to correct the violation of a
Federal right; and
- (iii) no other relief will correct the violation of the Federal
right.
- (C) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the
courts, in
- exercising their remedial powers, to repeal or detract from
otherwise applicable
- limitations on the remedial powers of the courts.
- (2) Preliminary injunctive relief -- In any civil action with
respect to law
- enforcement surveillance activities, to the extent otherwise
authorized by law, the court
- may enter a temporary restraining order or an order for
preliminary injunctive relief
- Preliminary injunctive relief must be narrowly drawn, extend no
further than necessary to
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- correct the harm the court finds requires preliminary relief,
and be the least intrusive
- means necessary to correct that harm. The court shall give
substantial weight to any
- adverse impact on public safety or the operation of a criminal
justice system caused by the
- preliminary relief and shall respect the principles of comity
set out in paragraph (1)(B) in
- tailoring any preliminary relief. Preliminary injunctive relief
shall automatically expire on
- the date that is 90 days after its entry, unless the court
makes the findings required under
- subsection (a)(1) for the entry of prospective relief and makes
the order final before the
- expiration of the 90-day period.
- (b) Termination of relief. --
- (1) Termination of prospective relief. --
- (A) In any civil action with respect to law enforcement
surveillance activities in
- which prospective relief is ordered, such relief shall be
terminable upon the motion of
- any party or intervener
- (i) 2 years after the date the court granted or approved the
prospective relief;
- (ii) 1 year after the date the court has entered an order
denying termination of
- prospective relief under this paragraph; or
- (iii) in the case of an order issued before September 11, 2001,
immediately.
- (B) Nothing in this section shall prevent the parties from
agreeing to terminate or
- modify relief before the relief is terminated under
subparagraph (A).
- (2) Immediate termination of prospective relief. -- In any
civil action with respect to
- law enforcement surveillance activities, a defendant or
intervener shall be entitled to the
- immediate termination of any prospective relief if the relief
was approved or granted in
- the absence of a finding by the court that the relief is
narrowly drawn, extends no further
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- than necessary to correct a current and ongoing violation of
the Federal right, and is the
- least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the
Federal right.
- (3) Limitation. Prospective relief shall not terminate if the
court makes written
- findings based on the record that prospective relief remains
necessary to correct a current
- and ongoing violation of the Federal right, extends no further
than necessary to correct
- the violation of the Federal right, and that the prospective
relief is narrowly drawn and the
- least intrusive means to correct the violation.
- (4) Termination or modification of relief -- Nothing in this
section shall prevent any
- party or intervener from seeking modification or termination
before the relief is
- terminable under paragraph (1) or (2), to the extent that
modification or termination
- would otherwise be legally permissible.
- (c) Settlements. --
- (1) Consent decrees. -- In any civil action with respect to law
enforcement
- surveillance activities, the court shall not enter or approve a
consent decree unless it
- complies with the limitations on relief set forth in subsection
(a).
- (2) Private settlement agreements. --
- (A) Nothing in this section shall preclude parties from
entering into a private
- settlement agreement that does not comply with the limitations
on relief set forth in
- subsection (a), if the terms of that agreement are not subject
to court enforcement
- other than the reinstatement of the civil proceeding that the
agreement settled.
- (B) Nothing in this section shall preclude any party claiming
that a private
- settlement agreement has been breached from seeking in State
court any remedy
- available under State law.
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- (d) State law remedies. The limitations on remedies in this
section shall not apply to
- relief entered by a State court based solely upon claims
arising under State law
- (e) Procedure for motions affecting prospective relief. --
- (1) Generally. -- The court shall promptly rule on any motion
to modify or terminate
- prospective relief in a civil action with respect to law
enforcement surveillance activities.
- Mandamus shall lie to remedy any failure to issue a prompt
ruling on such a motion.
- (2) Automatic stay. -- Any motion to modify or terminate
prospective relief made
- under subsection (b) shall operate as a stay during the period
--
- (A)(i) beginning on the 30th day after such motion is filed, in
the case of a
- motion made under paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (b);
or
- (ii) beginning on the 180th day after such motion is filed, in
the case of a
- motion made under any other law; and
- (B) ending on the date the court enters a final order ruling on
the motion.
- (3) Postponement of automatic stay. -- The court may postpone
the effective date of
- an automatic stay specified in subsection (e)(2)(A) for not
more than 60 days for good
- cause. No postponement shall be permissible because of general
congestion of the
- court's calendar.
- (4) Order blocking the automatic stay. -- Any order staying,
suspending, delaying, or
- barring the operation of the automatic stay described in
paragraph (2) (other than an
- order to postpone the effective date of the automatic stay
under paragraph (3)) shall be
- treated as an order refusing to dissolve or modify an
injunction and shall be appealable
- pursuant to section 1292(a)(1) of title 28, United States Code,
regardless of how the
- order is styled or whether the order is termed a preliminary or
a final ruling.
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- (f) Definitions. -- As used in this section --
- (1) the term "consent decree" means any relief entered by the
court that is based in
- whole or in part upon the consent or acquiescence of the
parties but does not include
- private settlements;
- (2) the term "civil action with respect to law enforcement
surveillance activities"
- means any civil proceeding arising under Federal law with
respect to the use of
- investigative methods by Federal, State, and local law
enforcement officials, including
- (but not limited to) overt surveillance; covert surveillance;
electronic surveillance;
- intelligence gathering; undercover operations; the use of
informants; and the recording,
- filing, retention, indexing or dissemination of information
obtained through these
- methods, including the dissemination of such information to
other Federal, state, or local
- law enforcement officials.
- (3) the term "private settlement agreement" means an agreement
entered into among
- the parties that is not subject to judicial enforcement other
than the reinstatement of the
- civil proceeding that the agreement settled;
- (4) the term "prospective relief" means all relief other than
compensatory monetary
- damages (but not including relief necessary to remedy
discrimination based on race, color,
- religion, sex, or national origin in violation of a Federal
right);
- (5) the term "relief' means all relief in any form that may be
granted or approved by
- the court, and includes consent decrees but does not include
private settlement
- agreements;
- (6) "State" means a State, the District of Columbia, and any
commonwealth,
- territory, or possession of the United States.
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- Sec. 313: Disclosure of Information.
- Notwithstanding any other law, a commercial or business entity,
and any employee or
- agent of such a commercial or business entity, shall not be
subject to civil liability in any court
- for the voluntary provision or disclosure of information to a
Federal law enforcement agency,
- based on a reasonable belief that the information may assist in
the investigation or prevention
- of terrorist activities (as defined in section 2510 of title
18, United States Code).
- Subtitle C: Facilitating International
Terrorism Investigations
- Sec. 321: Authority to Seek Search Warrants and Orders to
Assist Foreign States.
- Section 1782 of title 28, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in the first sentence, by deleting "thing" and inserting in
lieu thereof "thing, or may
- issue a warrant for the seizure of evidence under Federal Rule
of criminal Procedure 41 or an
- order permitting the use of a trap and trace or pen register
technology under 18 U.S.C. § 3121,
- et seq.,", and
- (2) by adding at the end thereof, "An order authorizing a
search or the use of trap and
- trace or pen register technology may be issued only in
accordance with the procedures
- established by the statutes and rules applicable to United
States criminal prosecutions.".
- Sec. 322: Extradition Without Treaties and for Offenses Not
Covered by an Existing 18
- Treaty.
- 19 (a) Chapter 209 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the
- following:
- "Sec. 3197. Extradition for Offenses Not Covered by an Existing
Treaty.
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- "(a) The provisions of this Chapter shall also be construed to
permit the
- extradition of any person, regardless of nationality, to any
country with which an
- extradition treaty or convention remains in force, and the
procedures set forth in this
- Chapter and in the treaty or convention shall apply, even if
the offense for which
- extradition is requested is not expressly included in a list of
extraditable crimes in such
- treaty or convention, if
- "(1) the offense for which extradition is sought is punishable
by more than one
- year's imprisonment in the requesting state;
- "(2) the conduct with which the person is charged or convicted,
had it
- occurred in the United States, would constitute an offense
punishable by more
- than one year's imprisonment; and
- "(3) the requesting state affirms, through the diplomatic
channel, that it would
- grant reciprocal extradition for similar conduct in response to
a request made by
- the United States."
- (b) Chapter 209 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the
- following:
- "Sec. 3198. Extradition absent a treaty
- "(a) SERIOUS OFFENSE DEFINED -- In this section, the term
'serious offense'
- means conduct that would be --
- "(1) an offense described in any multilateral treaty to which
the United States
- is a party that obligates parties --
- "(A) to extradite alleged offenders found in the territory of
the parties; or
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- "(B) submit the case to the competent authorities of the
parties for
- prosecution; or
- "(2) conduct that, if that conduct occurred in the United
States, would
- constitute
- "(A) a crime of violence (as defined in section 16);
- "(B) the distribution, manufacture, importation or exportation
of a
- controlled substance (as defined in section 201 of the
Controlled Substances
- Act (21 U.S.C. 802);
- "(C) bribery of a public official; misappropriation,
embezzlement or theft
- of public funds by or for the benefit of a public
official;
- "(D) obstruction of justice, including payment of bribes to
jurors or
- witnesses;
- "(E) the laundering of monetary instruments, as described in
section 1956,
- if the value of the monetary instruments involved exceeds
$100,000;
- "(F) fraud, theft, embezzlement, or commercial bribery if the
aggregate
- value of property that is the object of all of the offenses
related to the conduct
- exceeds $100,000;
- "(G) counterfeiting, if the, obligations, securities or other
items
- counterfeited, have an apparent value that exceeds
$100,000;
- "(II) a crime against children under chapter 109A or section
2251, 2251A,
- 2252, or 2252A; or
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- "(I) a conspiracy or attempt to commit any of the offenses
described in
- any of subparagraphs (A) through (II), or aiding and abetting a
person who
- commits any such offense.
- "(b) AUTHORIZATION OF FILING --
- "(1) IN GENERAL -- If a foreign government makes a request for
the
- extradition of a person who is charged with or has been
convicted of an offense
- within the jurisdiction of that foreign government, and no
extradition treaty is in
- force between the United States and the foreign government, the
Attorney
- General may authorize the filing of a complaint for extradition
pursuant to
- subsections (c) and (d).
- "(2) FILING AND TREATMENT OF COMPLAINTS --
- "(A) IN GENERAL -- A complaint authorized under paragraph (1)
shall
- be filed pursuant to section 3184.
- "(B) PROCEDURES- With respect to a complaint filed under
paragraph
- (1), procedures of sections 3184 and 3186 shall be followed as
if the offense
- were a 'crime provided for by such treaty' as described in
section 3184.
- "(c) CRITERIA FOR AUTHORIZATION OF COMPLAINTS -- The
Attorney
- General may authorize the filing of a complaint described in
subsection (b) only upon
- a certification --
- "(1) by the Attorney General, that in the judgment of the
Attorney General
- "(A) the offense for which extradition is sought is a serious
offense; and
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- "(B) submission of the extradition request would be important
to the law
- enforcement interests of the United States or otherwise in the
interests of
- justice; and
- "(2) by the Secretary of State, that in the judgment of the
certifying official,
- based on information then known --
- "(A) submission of the request would be consistent with the
foreign policy
- interests of the United States;
- "(B) the facts and circumstances of the request, including
humanitarian
- considerations, do not appear likely to present a significant
impediment to the
- ultimate surrender of the person if found extraditable;
and
- "(C) the foreign government submitting the request is not
submitting the
- request in order to try or punish the person sought for
extradition primarily on
- the basis of the race, religion, nationality, or political
opinions of that person.
- "(d) LIMITATIONS ON DELEGATION AND JUDICIAL REVIEW --
- "(1) DELEGATION BY ATTORNEY GENERAL; JUDICIAL REVIEW --
- The authorities and responsibilities of the Attorney General
under subsection (c)
- may be delegated only to the Deputy Attorney General.
- "(2) DELEGATION -- The authorities and responsibilities of the
Secretary of
- State set forth in this subsection may be delegated only to the
Deputy Secretary of
- State.
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- "(3) LIMITATION ON JUDICIAL REVIEW -- The authorities and
- responsibilities set forth in this subsection are not subject
to judicial review.
- "(e) CASES OF URGENCY --
- "(1) N GENERAL -- In any case of urgency, the Attorney General
may, with
- the concurrence of the Secretary of State and before any formal
certification
- under subsection (c), authorize the filing of a complaint
seeking the provisional
- arrest and detention of the person sought before the receipt of
documents or other
- proof in support of a formal request for extradition.
- "(2) FILING OF COMPLAINTS, ORDER BY JUDICIAL OFFICER --
- "(A) FILING -- A complaint filed under this subsection shall be
filed in the
- same manner as provided in section 3184.
- "(B) ORDERS Upon the filing of a complaint under subparagraph
(A)
- and a finding that the facts recited in the complaint
constitutes probable cause
- to believe that a serious crime was committed by the person
sought, the
- appropriate judicial officer may issue an order for the
provisional arrest and
- detention of the person.
- "(C) RELEASES -- If, not later than 45 days after the arrest,
the formal
- request for extradition and documents in support of that are
not received by
- the Department of State, the appropriate judicial officer may
order that a
- person detained pursuant to this subsection be released from
custody.
- "(f) HEARINGS --
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- "(1) IN GENERAL -- Subject to subsection (II), upon the filing
of a complaint
- for extradition and receipt of documents or other proof in
support of the request
- of a foreign government for extradition , the appropriate
judicial officer shall hold
- a hearing to determine whether the person sought for
extradition is extraditable.
- "(2) CRITERIA FOR EXTRADITION -- Subject to subsection (g) in
a
- hearing conducted under paragraph (1), the judicial officer
shall find a person
- extraditable if the officer finds --
- "(A) probable cause to believe that the person before the
judicial officer is
- the person sought in the foreign country of the requesting
foreign
- government;
- "(B) probable cause to believe that the person before the
judicial officer
- committed the offense for which that person is sought, or was
duly convicted
- of that offense in the foreign country of the requesting
foreign government;
- "(C) that the conduct upon which the request for extradition is
based, if
- that conduct occurred within the United States, would be a
serious offense
- punishable by imprisonment for more than 10 years under the
laws of
- "(i) the United States; 18 "(ii) the majority of the States in
the United States; or
- "(iii) of the State in which the fugitive is found; and
- "(D) no defense to extradition under subsection (f) has been
established.
- "(g) LIMITATION OF EXTRADITION --
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- "(1) IN GENERAL -- A judicial officer shall not find a person
extraditable
- under this section if the person has established that the
offense for which
- extradition is sought is --
- "(A) an offense for which the person is being proceeded
against, or has
- been tried or punished, in the United States; or
- "(B) apolitical offense.
- "(2) POLITICAL OFFENSES -- For purposes of this section, a
political
- offense does not include --
- "(A) a murder or other violent crime against the person of a
head of state
- of a foreign state, or of a member of the family of the head of
state;
- "(B) an offense for which both the United States and the
requesting
- foreign government have the obligation pursuant to a
multilateral international
- agreement to --
- "(i) extradite the person sought; or
- "(ii) submit the case to the competent authorities for decision
as to
- prosecution; or
- "(C) a conspiracy or attempt to commit any of the offenses
referred to in
- subparagraph (A) or (B), or aiding or abetting a person who
commits or
- attempts to commit any such offenses.
- "(II) LIMITATIONS ON FACTORS FOR CONSIDERATION AT HEARINGS
- --
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- "(1) IN GENERAL -- At a hearing conducted under subsection (a),
the
- judicial officer conducting the hearing shall not consider
issues regarding
- "(A) humanitarian concerns;
- "(B) the nature of the judicial system of the requesting
foreign
- government; and
- "(C) whether the foreign government is seeking extradition of a
person for
- the purpose of prosecuting or punishing the person because of
the race,
- religion, nationality or political opinions of that
person.
- "(2) CONSIDERATION BY SECRETARY OF STATE -- The issues
referred
- to in paragraph (1) shall be reserved for consideration
exclusively by the Secretary
- of State as described in subsection (c)(2).
- "(3) ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION -- Notwithstanding the
certification
- requirements described in subsection (c)(2), the Secretary of
State may, within the
- sole discretion of the Secretary --
- "(A) in addition to considering the issues referred to in
paragraph (I) for
- purposes of certifying the filing of a complaint under this
section, consider
- those issues again in exercising authority to surrender the
person sought for
- extradition in carrying out the procedures under section 3184
and 3186; and
- "(B) impose conditions on surrender including those provided
in
- subsection (i).
- "(1) CONDITIONS OF SURRENDER; ASSURANCES --
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- "(1) IN GENERAL -- The Secretary of State may --
- "(A) impose conditions upon the surrender of a person sought
for
- extradition under this section; and
- "(B) require such assurances of compliance with those
conditions, as the
- Secretary determines to be appropriate.
- "(2) ADDITIONAL ASSURANCES -- In addition to imposing
conditions and
- requiring assurances under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall
demand, as a
- condition of the extradition of the person that is sought for
extradition --
- "(A) in every case, an assurance the Secretary determines to
be
- satisfactory that the person shall not be tried or punished for
an offense other
- than the offense for which the person has been extradited,
absent the consent
- of the United States; and
- "(B) in a case in which the offense for which extradition is
sought is
- punishable by death in the foreign country of the requesting
foreign
- government and is not so punishable under the applicable laws
in the United
- States, an assurance the Secretary determines to be
satisfactory that the death
- penalty
- "(i) shall not be imposed; or
- "(ii) if imposed, shall not be carried out.".
- (c) Chapter 309 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
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- (1) in section 3181, by inserting ", other than sections 3197
and 3198," after "The
- provisions of this chapter" each place that term appears;
and
- (2) in section 3186, by striking "or 3185" and inserting ",
3185, 3197 or 3198".
- (d) The table of sections for chapter 209 of title 28, United
States Code, is amended by
- inserting at the end the following:
- "3197. Extradition for offenses not covered by an existing
treaty."
- "3198. Extradition absent a treaty.".
- Title IV: Enhancing Prosecution and
Prevention of Terrorist Crimes
- Subtitle A: Increased Penalties and
Protections Against Terrorist Acts
- Sec. 401: Terrorism Hoaxes.
- (a) PROHIBITION ON HOAXES -- Chapter 47 of title 18, United
States Code, is
- amended by inserting after section 1036 the following:
- "Sec. 1037. False information and hoaxes
- "(a) CRIMINAL VIOLATION -- Whoever engages in any conduct,
- with intent to convey false or misleading information, under
circumstances
- where such information may reasonably be believed and where
such
- information concerns an activity which would constitute a
violation of section
- 175, 229, 831, or 2332a, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more
- than 5 years, or both.
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- "(b) CIVIL ACTION -Whoever engages in any conduct, with
intent
- to convey false or misleading information, under circumstances
where such
- information concerns an activity which would constitute a
violation of section
- 175, 229, 831, or 2332a, is liable in a civil action to any
party incurring
- expenses incident to any emergency or investigative response to
that conduct,
- for those expenses.
- "(c) REIMBURSEMENT -- The court, in imposing a sentence on
a
- defendant who has been convicted of an offense under subsection
(a), shall
- order the defendant to reimburse any person or entity incurring
any expenses
- incident to any emergency or investigative response to that
conduct, for those
- expenses. For the purpose of this provision, a State or local
government, or
- private not-for-profit organization that provides fire or
rescue services that is
- dispatched and responds to such an emergency shall be entitled
to the greater
- of actual costs of response or $1,000. A person ordered to
make
- reimbursement under this subsection shall be jointly and
severally liable for
- such expenses with each other person, if any, who is ordered to
make
- reimbursement under this subsection for the same expenses. An
order of
- reimbursement under this subsection shall, for the purposes of
enforcement, be
- treated as a civil judgment.".
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- (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT -- The table of sections at the
beginning of chapter
- 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding after
the item for section 1036 the
- following: "1037. False information and hoaxes.".
- Sec. 402: Providing Material Support to Terrorism.
- (a) Section 2339A(a) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by --
- (1) designating the first sentence as paragraph (1);
- (2) designating the second sentence as paragraph (3);
- (3) inserting after "for life." the following:
- "(2) Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign
commerce,
- or while outside the United States and a national of the United
States
- (as defined in section 1203(c)) or a legal entity organized
under the
- laws of the United States (including any of its States,
districts,
- commonwealth, territories or possessions), provides material
support
- or resources or conceals or disguises the nature, location,
source, or
- ownership of material support or resources, knowing or
intending that
- they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out, an
act of
- international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section
2331), or in
- the preparation for, or in carrying out, the concealment or
escape from
- the commission of any such act, or attempts or conspires to do
so,
- shall be punished as provided under paragraph (1)."; and
- (4) by inserting "act or" after "underlying".
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- (b) Section 2331(1)(B) and (5)(B) of title 18, United States
Code, are each amended --
- by inserting "by their nature or context" after "appear".
- (c) Section 2339A(b) of title 18, United States Code,, is
amended by adding at the end
- the following: "The term 'training' means instruction or
teaching designed to impart a
- specific skill.".
- (d) Section 2339B(g)(4) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended to read as
- follows:
- "(4) the term 'material support or resources' has the same
meaning as
- in section 2339A (including the definition of 'training' in
that section), except
- that no person may be prosecuted under this section in
connection with the
- term 'personnel' unless that person has knowingly provided,
attempted to
- provide, or conspired to provide a terrorist organization with
one or more
- individuals (which may be or include himself) to work in
concert with the
- organization or under its direction or control;".
- Sec. 403: Weapons of Mass Destruction.
- (a) EXPANSION OF JURISDICTIONAL BASES AND SCOPE. Section 2332a
of
- title 18, United States Code, is amended by
- (1) amending paragraph (a)(2) to read as follows:
- "(2) against any person or property within the United
States,
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- "(A) the mail or any facility of interstate or foreign
- commerce is used in furtherance of the offense;
- "(B) such property is used in interstate or foreign
- commerce or in an activity that affects interstate or
foreign
- commerce;
- "(C) any perpetrator travels in or causes another to
- travel in interstate or foreign commerce in furtherance of
the
- offense; or
- "(D) the offense, or the results of the offense, affect
- interstate or foreign commerce, or, in the case of a
threat,
- attempt, or conspiracy, would have affected interstate or
- foreign commerce;";
- (2) in paragraph (a)(3), deleting the comma at the end and
inserting "; or";
- (3) in subsection (a), adding the following at the end:
- "(4) against any property within the United States that is
- owned, leased, or used by a foreign government,";
- (4) in paragraph (c)(1), deleting "and" at the end;
- (5) in paragraph (c)(2), deleting the period at the end and
inserting "; and";
- and
- (6) in subsection (c), inserting the following at the end:
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- "(3) the term 'property' includes all real and personal
- property."
- (b) RESTORATION OF THE COVERAGE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS.
Section
- 2332a of title 18, United States Code, as amended by subsection
(a), is further amended by
- (1) in the caption, deleting "certain";
- (2) in subsection (a), deleting "(other than a chemical weapon
as that term is
- defined in section 229F)"; and
- (3) in subsection (b), deleting "(other than a chemical weapon
(as that term is
- defined in section 229F))".
- (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO NEW SELECT AGENT
- REGULATIONS. -- (1) Section 175b(a)(1) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by
- striking "as a select agent in Appendix A" and all that follows
and inserting the following: "as
- a non-overlap or overlap select biological agent or toxin in
[sections 73.4 and 73.5] of title
- 42, Code of Federal Regulations, pursuant to section 351 A of
the Public Health Service Act,
- and is not exempted under [section 73.6] of title 42, Code of
Federal Regulations.".
- (2) The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect at
the same time
- that [sections 73.4, 73.5, and 73.6] of title 42, Code of
Federal Regulations, become
- effective.
- Sec. 404: Use of Encryption to Conceal Criminal Activity.
- (a) Part I of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
inserting after chapter
- 123 the following:
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- "CHAPTER 124 ENCRYPTED WIRE OR ELECTRONIC
- COMMUNICATIONS AND STORED ELECTRONIC INFORMATION
- "Sec. 2801. Unlawful use of encryption
- "(a) Any person who, during the commission of a felony
under
- Federal law, knowingly and willfully encrypts any
incriminating
- communication or information relating to that felony --
- "(1) in the case of a first offense under this section,
- shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years, fined under this
title,
- or both; and
- "(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense
- under this section, shall be imprisoned not more than 10
years,
- fined under this title, or both.
- "(b) The terms 'encrypt' and 'encryption' refer to the
- scrambling (and descrambling) of wire communications,
electronic
- communications, or electronically stored information,
using
- mathematical formulas or algorithms in order to preserve
the
- confidentiality, integrity, or authenticity of, and prevent
unauthorized
- recipients from accessing or altering, such communications
or
- information."
- (b) The table of Chapters is amended by inserting after to
Chapter 123, the following:
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- "Chapter 124 -Encrypted Wire or Electronic Communications
and
- Stored Electronic Information"
- Sec. 405. Presumption for Pretrial Detention in Cases
Involving Terrorism.
- Section 3142 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (e) --
- (A) by inserting "or" before "the Maritime"; and
- (B) by striking ", or an offense under section 924(c), 956(a),
or 2332b of title
- 18 of the United States Code" and inserting ", an offense under
section 924(c), or an
- offense described in section 2332b(g)(5)(B)"; and
- (2) in subsections (f)(1)(A) and (g)(1), by inserting "or an
offense described in section
- 2332b(g)(5)(B)" after "violence".
- Sec. 406: "Mass Transportation Vehicle" Technical
Correction.
- (a) Section 1993 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in paragraph (7), by deleting "and" at the end;
- (2) in paragraph (8), by deleting the period at the end in
inserting in lieu
- thereof"; and"; and
- (3) by inserting at the end thereof the following:
- "(9) The term 'vehicle' means any carriage or other
- contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of
- transportation on land, water, or throughout the air.".
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- (b) The title of chapter 97 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended to read
- "RAILROADS AND OTHER MASS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS".
- (c) The table of chapters for Part I of title 18, United States
Code, is amended in
- the item relating to chapter 97 by amending the title to read
"Railroads and other mass
- transportation systems".
- (d) The title of section 1993 of title 18, United States Code,
is amended by adding
- "on land, water, or through the air" after "systems".
- (e) The table of sections for chapter 97 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended in
- the item relating to section 1993 by adding "on land, water, or
through the air" after
- "systems".
- Sec. 407: Acts of Terrorism Transcending National
Boundaries.
- (a) Section 2332b of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting "in a case" before
"involving";
- (2) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by inserting "any person travels
in interstate or
- foreign commerce or" before "the mail"; and
- (3) in subsection (g) --
- (A) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
- "(1) the term 'conduct transcending national
- boundaries' means conduct engaged in --
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- "(A) by the defendant or another person outside
- of the United States, in addition to conduct occurring in
- the United States;
- "(B) at the instigation of a foreign power or of a
- person outside of the United States; or
- "(C) in furtherance of an objective of a foreign
- power or of a person outside of the United States.";
- (B) in paragraph (4), by striking "and" at the end;
- (C) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ";
- and"; and
- (D) by inserting at the end the following:
- "(6) the term 'foreign power' has the meaning given
- that term in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence
- Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801).".
- (b) Section 1958 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (a), by striking "facility in" and inserting
"facility of'; and
- (2) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting "or foreign" after
"interstate".
- Sec. 408: Postrelease Supervision of Terrorists.
- Section 3583 of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in subsection (e)(3), by inserting "on any such revocation"
after "required to
- serve";
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- (2) in subsection (h), by striking "that is less than the
maximum term of imprisonment
- authorized under subsection (e)(3)"; and
- (3) in subsection (j) --
- (A) by striking ", the commission" and all that follows through
"person," ; and
- (B) by inserting "and the sentence for any such offense shall
include a term of
- supervised release of at least 10 years" before the
period.
- Sec. 409: Suspension, Revocation, and Denial of Certificates
for Civil Aviation or
- National Security Reasons.
- Chapter 447 of title 49, United States Code, is amended --
- (1) in the chapter analysis, by inserting at the end the
following:
- "44727. Suspension, revocation, and denial of certificates for
civil aviation or national
- security reasons."; and
- (2) by inserting at the end the following:
- "§ 44727. Suspension, revocation, and denial of
certificates for civil aviation or
- national security reasons
- "(a) Suspension of Certificate. --
- "(1) Notification of Initial Threat Determination. --
The Under
- Secretary of Transportation for Security or designee shall
notify the
- Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration of the
identity of
- "(A) any holder of a certificate issued by the
Administrator
- under this chapter on whom the Under Secretary or designee
has
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- served an initial determination that the certificate holder
poses a threat
- to civil aviation or national security; or
- "(B) any holder of a certificate issued by the
Administrator
- under this chapter on whom the Under Secretary or designee
has
- served an initial determination that an individual who has a
controlling
- or ownership interest in the certificate holder poses a threat
to civil
- aviation or national security by virtue of that interest.
- "(2) Suspension. -- The Administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration
- shall issue an order suspending any certificate identified by
the Under Secretary or
- designee pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) or (B). The
Administrator's order of
- suspension shall be immediately effective and remain effective
until --
- "(A) the Administrator withdraws the order; or
- "(B) the Administrator issues an order revoking the
certificate.
- The Administrator's order of suspension is not subject to
administrative or judicial
- review.
- "(3) Opportunity to Respond to Initial Threat
determination. -- The
- Under Secretary or designee shall afford certificate holders
and persons with a
- controlling or ownership interest identified in paragraph
(1)(A) or (B) notice and an
- opportunity to respond to an initial determination that the
certificate holders or
- persons pose a threat to civil aviation or national security
prior to the issuance of a
- final threat determination.
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- "(4) Judicial Review of Initial Threat Determination. --
The initial
- determination by the Under Secretary or designee that a
certificate holder or person
- with a controlling or ownership interest identified in
subsection (a)(1)(A) or (B) poses
- a threat to civil aviation or national security is not subject
to judicial review.
- "(b) Revocation of Certificate. --
- "(1) Notification of Final Threat Assessment. -- The
Under Secretary or
- designee shall notify the Administrator of the identity of any
certificate holder
- described in subsection (a)(1)(A) or (B) on whom
- "(A) a withdrawal of initial threat determination has been
served; or
- "(B) a final threat determination has been served.
- The Under Secretary or designee must issue either a withdrawal
or final threat
- determination within 60 days of the notification of initial
threat determination.
- "(2) Revocation. -- The Administrator shall issue an
order revoking the
- certificate held by a certificate holder described in
subsection (a)(1)(A) or (B) on
- whom the Under Secretary or designee has served a final
determination that the
- certificate holder poses a threat to civil aviation or national
security or that a person
- who has a controlling or ownership interest in the certificate
holder poses a threat to
- civil aviation or national security by virtue of that interest.
The Administrator's order
- of revocation shall be immediately effective.
- "(3) Review of Final Threat Determination and Order of
Revocation --
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- "(A) A final threat determination by the Under Secretary
or designee
- or an order of revocation issued by the Administrator with
regard to a person
- who is neither a citizen nor permanent resident alien of the
United States is
- not subject to administrative or judicial review.
- "(B) A person who is a citizen or permanent resident
alien of the
- United States disclosing a substantial interest in a final
threat determination by
- the Under Secretary or designee under paragraph (1) and an
order of
- revocation issued by the Administrator under paragraph (2) may
seek review
- of those actions by filing a petition for review in the United
States Court of
- Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit or in the court of
appeals of the
- United States for the circuit in which the person resides. The
petition for
- review must be filed not later than 30 days after the issuance
of the order of
- revocation. The court may allow the petition to be filed after
the 30th day
- only if there are reasonable grounds for not filing by the 30th
day. The court's
- review is limited to determining whether it was arbitrary,
capricious, or
- otherwise not according to law for the Under Secretary to make
the final
- threat determination and for the Administrator to issue the
order of
- revocation.
- "(C) In any judicial review of the Under Secretary's
determination and
- the Administrator's order under paragraphs (1) and (2), if the
actions were
- based on classified information (as defined in section 1(a) of
the Classified
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- Information Procedures Act) or sensitive security information
(as defined in
- regulations issued under section 40119(b) of this title) such
information may
- be submitted to the reviewing court ex parte and in
camera.
- "(d) Denial of Certificate. --
- "(1) Notification of Threat Determination. -- The Under
Secretary or
- designee shall notify the Administrator of the identity of
- "(A) any person on whom the Under Secretary or designee
has served
- an initial or final determination that the person poses a
threat to civil aviation
- or national security; or
- "(B) any entity on whom the Under Secretary or designee
has served
- an initial or final determination that a person who has a
controlling or
- ownership interest in the entity poses a threat to civil
aviation or national
- security by virtue of that interest.
- "(2) Denial.--The Administrator may not issue a
certificate to any person or
- entity identified in paragraph (1) unless the Under Secretary
or designee has
- withdrawn a determination that the person poses a threat. A
denial of certificate
- based on an initial threat determination is not subject to
administrative or judicial
- review.
- "(3) Opportunity to Respond to initial Threat
determination. -- The
- Under Secretary or designee shall afford applicants for
certificates and persons with a
- controlling or ownership interest identified in paragraph
(1)(A) or (B) notice and an
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- opportunity to respond to an initial determination that an
applicant for a certificate or
- person with a controlling or ownership interest in an applicant
poses a threat to civil
- aviation or national security prior to the issuance of a final
determination of threat
- assessment.
- "(4) Review of Initial Threat Determination. -- The
initial determination by
- the Under Secretary or designee that an applicant for a
certificate or person with a
- controlling ownership interest in an applicant poses a threat
to civil aviation or
- national security is not subject to judicial review.
- "(5) Review of Final Threat Determination and Certificate
Denial. --
- "(A) A final threat determination by the Under Secretary
or designee
- and the denial of certificate by the Administrator under this
subsection with
- regard to person who is not a citizen or resident alien of the
United States is
- not subject to administrative or judicial review.
- "(B) A citizen or permanent resident alien of the United
States may
- seek review of a final threat determination by the Under
Secretary or designee
- and denial by the Administrator under this subsection by filing
a petition for
- review in the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia
- Circuit or in the court of appeals of the United States for the
circuit in which
- the person resides. The petition for review must be filed no
later than the 30th
- day after the issuance of the denial. The court may allow the
petition to be
- filed after the 30th day only if there are reasonable grounds
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- the 30th day. The court's review is limited to determining
whether it was
- arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise not according to law for
the Under
- Secretary to make the final threat determination and for the
Administrator to
- deny a certificate.
- "(C) In any judicial review of the Under Secretary's
final threat
- determination and the Administrator's denial, if the actions
were based on
- classified information (as defined in section 1(a) of the
Classified Information
- Procedures Act) or sensitive security information (as defined
in regulations
- issued under section 40119(b) of this title) such information
may be submitted
- to the reviewing court ex parte and in camera.
- "(e) Coordination with the Attorney General -- Nothing
in this section is intended
- to alter any provisions in section 44939 of this title. The
Under Secretary shall coordinate
- any request to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration under this section
- with the Attorney General on matters within the Attorney
General's jurisdiction under section
- 44939.".
- Sec. 410. No Statute of Limitations for Terrorism
Crimes.
- (a) Section 3286(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by striking", if the
- commission" and all that follows through "person".
- (b) The amendment made by this section shall apply to the
prosecution of any offense
- committed before, on, or after the date of the enactment of
this section.
- Sec. 411: Penalties for Terrorist Murders.
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- (a) Chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code, is amended
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- (1) in the chapter analysis, by inserting at the end the
following:
- "2339D. Terrorist offenses resulting in death."; and
- (2) by inserting at the end the following:
- "2339D. Terrorist offenses resulting in death
- "A person who, in the course of an offense listed in section
2332b(g)(5)(B) or of
- terrorist activities (as defined in section 2510), engages in
conduct that results in the death of
- a person, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term
of years or for life.".
- (b) Section 3592(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting
- "section 2339D (terrorist offenses resulting in death)," after
"destruction),".
- Subtitle B: Incapacitating Terrorism Financing
- Sec. 421: Increased Penalties for Terrorism
Financing.
- Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
(50 U.S.C. §
- 1705) is amended --
- (1) in subsection (a), by deleting "$10,000" and inserting
"$50,000".
- (2) in subsection (b), by deleting "$50,000" and inserting
"$250,000"; and by
- deleting "ten years" and inserting "twenty years".
- Sec. 422: Money Laundering Through Hawalas.
- 19 Section 1956 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the
- following:
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- "(j)(1) For the purposes of subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2), a
transaction,
- transportation, transmission, or transfer of funds shall be
considered to be one
- involving the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, if the
transaction, transportation,
- transmission, or transfer is part of a set of parallel or
dependent transactions, any one
- of which involves the proceeds of specified unlawful
activity.
- "(2) As used in this section, a "dependent transaction" is one
that
- completes or complements another transaction or one that would
not have
- occurred but for another transaction.
- Sec. 423: Suspension of Tax-Exempt Status of Designated
Foreign Terrorist
- Organizations.
- (a) Section 501 (relating to exemption from tax on
corporations, certain trusts, etc.)
- is amended by redesignating subsection (p) as subsection (q)
and by inserting after subsection
- (o) the following new subsection:
- "(p) SUSPENSION OF TAX-EXEMPT STATUS OF DESIGNATED
- TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.
- "(1) IN GENERAL. The exemption from tax under subsection
(a)
- with respect to any organization shall be suspended during any
period in
- which the organization is a designated terrorist
organization.
- "(2) DESIGNATED TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. For purposes
- of this subsection, the term 'designated terrorist
organization' means an
- organization which
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- "(A) is designated as a terrorist organization by an
Executive
- Order or under the authority of
- "(i) section 212(a)(3) or 219 of the Immigration and
- Nationality Act,
- "(ii) the International Emergency Economic Powers
- Act, or
- "(iii) section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act,
- or
- "(B) is a person listed in or designated by an Executive
Order
- as supporting terrorist activity (as defined in section
212(a)(3)(B) of
- the Immigration and Nationality Act) or terrorism (as defined
in
- section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act,
Fiscal
- Years 1988 and 1989).
- "(3) DENIAL OF DEDUCTION. No deduction shall be allowed
- under section 170, 545(b)(2), 556(b)(2), 642(c), 2055,
2106(a)(2), or 2522
- for any contribution to an organization during the period such
organization is
- a designated terrorist organization.
- "(4) DENIAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE OR JUDICIAL
- CHALLENGE OF SUSPENSION OR DENIAL OF DEDUCTION.
- Notwithstanding section 7428 or any other provision of law, no
organization
- or other person may challenge a suspension under paragraph (1),
a
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- determination or listing under paragraph (2), or a denial of a
deduction under
- paragraph (3) in any administrative or judicial proceeding
relating to the
- organization's Federal tax liability.
- "(5) CREDIT OR REFUND IN CASE OF ERRONEOUS
- DESIGNATION.
- "(A) IN GENERAL If an erroneous designation of an
- organization pursuant to I or more of the provisions of law
described
- in paragraph (2) results in an overpayment of income tax for
any
- taxable year with respect to such organization, credit or
refund (with
- interest) with respect to such overpayment shall be made.
- "(B) WAIVER OF LIMITATIONS. If credit or refund of any
- overpayment of tax described in subparagraph (A) is prevented
at any
- time before the close of the 1-year period beginning on the
date of the
- determination of such credit or refund by the operation of any
law or.
- rule of law (including res judicata), such refund or credit
may
- nevertheless be made or allowed if claim therefor is filed
before the
- close of such period.".
- (b) If the tax exemption of any organization is suspended under
section 501(p) of the
- Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (as added by subsection (a)), the
Internal Revenue Service
- shall update the listings of tax-exempt organizations and shall
publish appropriate notice to
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- taxpayers of such suspension and of the fact that contributions
to such organization are not
- deductible during the period of such suspension.
- Sec. 424: Denial of Federal Benefits to Terrorists.
- Chapter 1 13B of title 18, United States Code, is amended
--
- (1) in the chapter analysis, by adding at the end the
following:
- "2339C. Denial of federal benefits to terrorists"; and
- (2) by adding at the end the following:
- "§ 2339C. Denial of federal benefits to terrorists
- "(a) In general. -Any individual who is convicted of an offense
listed
- in section 2332b(g)(5)(B) shall, as provided by the court on
motion of the
- government, be ineligible for any or all Federal benefits for
any term of years
- or for life.
- "(b) Definition. -- As used in this section, 'Federal benefit'
has the
- meaning given that term in section 421(d) of the Controlled
Substances Act
- (21 U.S.C. 862(d)).
- Sec. 425: Corrections to Financing of Terrorism
Statute.
- (a) Section 2339C(c)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by --
- (1) striking "resources, or funds" and inserting "resources, or
any funds or
- proceeds of such funds";
- (2) in subparagraph (A), striking "were provided" and inserting
"are to be
- provided, or knowing that the support or resources were
provided,"; and
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- (3) in subparagraph (B)--
- (A) striking "or any proceeds of such funds"; and
- (B) striking "were provided or collected" and inserting "are to
be
- provided or collected, or knowing that the funds were provided
or collected,".
- (b) Section 2339C(e) is amended by
- (1) striking "and" at the end of paragraph (12);
- (2) redesignating paragraph (13) as paragraph (14); and
- (3) inserting after paragraph (12) the following new,
paragraph:
- "(13) the term 'material support or resources' has the same
meaning as in
- section 2339A(b) of this title; and".
- (c) Section 2332b(g)(5)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting
- ")" after "2339C (relating to financing of terrorism".
- Sec. 426: Terrorism-Related Specified Activities for Money
Laundering.
- (a) AMENDMENTS TO RICO. -- Section 1961(1) of title 18, United
States Code, is
- amended --
- (1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting "section 1960 (relating
to illegal money
- transmitters)," before "sections 2251"; and
- (2) in subparagraph (F), by inserting "section 274A ( relating
to unlawful
- employment of aliens)," before "section 277".
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- (b) AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 1956(c)(7).-- Section 1956(c)(7)(D)
of title 18,
- United States Code, is amended by
- (1) striking "or section 2339A or 2339B or 2339B" and inserting
"section
- 2339A or 2339B";
- (2) inserting ", or section 2339C (relating to financing of
terrorism)" before
- "of this title"; and
- (3) striking "or any felony violation of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act" and
- inserting "any felony violation of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act, or any violation
- of section 208 of the Social Security Act (relating to
obtaining funds through misuse
- of a social security number)".
- Sec. 427: Assets of Persons Committing Terrorist Acts
Against Foreign Countries or
- International Organizations.
- Section 981(a)(1)(G) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by --
- (1) striking "or" at the end of clause (ii);
- (2) striking the period at the end of clause (iii) and
inserting "; or"; and
- (3) inserting the following after clause (iii):
- "(iv) of any individual, entity, or organization engaged
- in planning or perpetrating any act of international
terrorism
- (as defined in section 2331) against any international
- organization (as defined in section 209 of the State
Department
- Basic Authorities Act of 1956) or against any foreign
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- Government, its citizens or residents, or their property.
Where
- the property sought for forfeiture is located beyond the
- territorial boundaries of the United States, an act in
furtherance
- of such planning or perpetration must have occurred within
the
- jurisdiction of the United States.".
- Sec. 428: Technical and Conforming Amendments Relating to
the USA PATRIOT Act.
- (a) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.- (1) Sections 5312(a)(3)(C) and
5324(b) of title
- 31 are amended by striking "5333" each time it appears and
inserting "5331".
- (2) Section 322 of Pub. L. 10756 is amended by striking "title
18" and.
- inserting "title 28".
- (3) Section 53 18(k)(1)(B) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by
- striking "5318A(f)(1)(B)" and inserting "5318A(e)(1)(B)".
- (4) Section 5332(a)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended by striking
- "article of luggage" and inserting "article of luggage or
mail".
- (5) Section 1956(b)(3) and (4) of title 18, United States Code,
are amended
- by striking "described in paragraph (2)" each time it appears;
and
- (6) Section 981(k) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
by striking
- "foreign bank" each time it appears and inserting "foreign bank
or financial
- institution".
- (b) CODIFICATION OF SECTION 316. -- (1) Chapter 46 of title 18,
United States
- Code, is amended --
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- (A) in the chapter analysis, by inserting at the end the
following:
- "987. Anti-terrorist forfeiture protection."; and
- (B) by inserting at the end the following:
- "§ 987. Antiterrorist forfeiture protection
- "(a) Right to contest. -- An owner of property that is
confiscated under this chapter
- or any other provision of law relating to the confiscation of
assets of suspected international
- terrorists, may contest that confiscation by filing a claim in
the manner set forth in the Federal
- Rules of Civil Procedure (Supplemental Rules for Certain
Admiralty and Maritime Claims),
- and asserting as an affirmative defense that --
- "(1) the property is not subject to confiscation under
such provision of law; or
- "(2) the innocent owner provisions of section 983(d)
apply to the case.
- "(b) Evidence. -- In considering a claim filed under
this section, a court may admit
- evidence that is otherwise inadmissible under the Federal Rules
of Evidence, if the court
- determines that the evidence is reliable, and that compliance
with the Federal Rules of
- Evidence may jeopardize the national security interests of the
United States.
- "(c) Clarifications. --
- "(1) Protection of rights. -- The exclusion of certain
provisions of Federal law
- from the definition of the term 'civil forfeiture statute' in
section 983(i) shall not be
- construed to deny an owner of property the right to contest the
confiscation of assets
- of suspected international terrorists under --
- "(A) subsection (a) of this section;
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- "(B) the Constitution; or
- "(C) subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United
States Code
- (commonly known as the 'Administrative Procedure Act').
- "(2) Savings clause. -- Nothing in this section shall
limit or otherwise affect
- any other remedies that may be available to an owner of
property under section 983
- or any other provision of law.".
- (2) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 316 of Pub. L.
107-56 are repealed.
- (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS CONCERNING CONSPIRACIES. --
- (1) Section 33(a) of title 18, United State Code is amended by
inserting "or
- conspires" before "to do any of the foregoing".
- (2) Section 1366(a) of title 18, United State Code, is amended
by --
- (A) striking "attempts" each time it appears and inserting
"attempts or
- conspires"; and
- (B) inserting ", or if the object of the conspiracy had been
achieved,"
- after "the attempted offense had been completed".
- Title V: Enhancing Immigration and Border
Security
- Sec. 501: Expatriation of Terrorists.
- Section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1481) is amended
- (1) by amending subsection (a)(3) to read as follows:
- "(3) (A) entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign
state if --
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- "(i) such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the
United
- States; or
- "(ii) such person serves as a commissioned or
non-commissioned
- officer, or
- "(B) joining or serving in, or providing material support (as
defined in
- section 2339A of title 18, United States Code) to, a terrorist
organization
- designated under section 212(a)(3) or 219 or designated under
the
- International Emergency Economic Powers Act, if the
organization is engaged
- in hostilities against the United States, its people, or its
national security
- interests."; and
- (2) by adding at the end of subsection (b) the following: "The
voluntary commission
- or performance of an act described in subsection (a)(3)(A)(i)
or (B) shall be prima facie
- evidence that the act was done with the intention of
relinquishing United States nationality.".
- Sec. 502: Enhanced Criminal Penalties for Violations of
Immigration and Nationality
- Act.
- (a) ENTRY CRIMES. -- Section 275(a)(1) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8
- U.S.C. 1325(a)(1)) is amended by
- (1) striking "6 months" and inserting "one year"; and
- (2) striking "2 years" and inserting "3 years".
- (b) REENTRY AFTER REMOVAL -- Section 276 of the Immigration
and
- Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1326) is amended --
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- (1) in subsection (a), by striking "2 years" and inserting "3
years"; and
- (2) in subsection (b)(3), by striking "10 years" and inserting
"20 years".
- (c) ALIEN SMUGGLING. -- Section 274(a)(2)(A) of the Immigration
and
- Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(2)(A)) is amended by striking
"one year" and inserting "3
- years".
- (d) REGISTRATION OFFENSES. -- (1) Section 264(e) of the
Immigration and
- Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1304(e)) is amended by striking "be
fined not to exceed $100 or be
- imprisoned not more than 30 days" and inserting "be fined under
title 18, United States Code,
- or imprisoned not more than 90 days".
- (2) Section 266 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1306) is
- amended --
- (A) in subsection (b), by striking "be fined not to exceed $200
or be
- imprisoned not more than thirty days" and inserting "be fined
under title 18,
- United States Code, or imprisoned not more than six months";
and
- (B) in subsection (c), by striking "be fined not to exceed
$1000, or be
- imprisoned not more than six months" and inserting "be fined
under title 18,
- United States Code, or imprisoned not more than one year".
- (e) UNLAWFUL VOTING. -Section 611(b) of title 18, United States
Code, is
- amended by striking "one year" and inserting "three
years".
- Sec. 503: Inadmissibility and Removability of National
Security Aliens or Criminally
- Charged Aliens.
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- (a) Section 212(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act,
as amended, is
- amended by adding at the end thereof the following new
subparagraphs:
- "(G) An alien whose entry or proposed activities in the United
States
- the Attorney General has reason to believe would pose a danger
to the
- national security of the United States as defined in section
219(c)(2) of the
- Act is inadmissible.
- "(II) An alien whom the Attorney General has reason to believe
is
- charged with or has committed a serious criminal offense in a
country other
- than the United States is inadmissible.".
- (b) Section 237(a)(4) of Immigration and Nationality Act is
amended by adding at
- the end thereof the following new subparagraphs:
- "(E) An alien whose presence or activities in the United States
the
- Attorney General has reason to believe pose a danger to the
national security
- of the United States, as defined in section 219(c)(2) of the
Act is removable.
- "(F) An alien whom the Attorney General has reason to believe
is
- charged with or has committed a serious criminal offense in a
country other
- than the United States is removable.".
- Sec. 504: Expedited Removal of Criminal Aliens.
- (a) The caption of Section 238 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act is amended to
- read as follows: "EXPEDITED REMOVAL OF CRIMINAL ALIENS".
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- (b) Section 238(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is
amended to read as
- follows:
- "(b) Removal of Criminal Aliens. --
- "(1) The Attorney General may, in the case of an alien
- described in paragraph (2), determine the deportability of such
alien,
- and issue an order of removal pursuant to the procedures set
forth in
- this subsection or section 240.
- "(2) An alien is described in this paragraph if the alien,
- whether or not admitted into the United States, was convicted
of any
- criminal offense covered in 237(a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C), or
(D), without
- regard to its date of commission.
- "(3) The Attorney General in his discretion may at any
time
- execute any order described in paragraph (1), except during the
14
- calendar day period after the date that such order was issued,
unless
- waived by the alien, in order that the alien has an opportunity
to apply
- for judicial review under section 242, or if the removal has
been stayed
- under section 242(f)(2) of the Act. Notwithstanding any
other
- provision of law including section 2241 of title 28, United
States
- Code, no court other than a court of appeals pursuant to
its
- jurisdiction under section 242 of this Act shall have
jurisdiction to
- review or set aside any order, action, or decision taken or
issued
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- pursuant to this subsection. Review in the court of appeals
shall be
- limited to determining whether the petitioner (i) is an alien
and (ii) is
- subject to a final judgment of conviction for an offense
covered in
- section 237(a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C), or (D).
- "(4) Proceedings before the Attorney General under this
- subsection shall be in accordance with such regulations as
the
- Attorney General shall prescribe. The Attorney General shall
provide
- that --
- "(A) the alien is given reasonable notice of the charges
- and of the opportunity described in subparagraph (C);
- "(B) the alien shall have the privilege of being
- represented (at no expense to the government) by such
- counsel, authorized to practice in such proceedings, as
the
- alien shall choose;
- "(C) the alien has a reasonable opportunity to inspect
- the evidence and rebut the charges;
- "(D) a determination is made for the record that the
- individual upon whom the notice for the proceeding under
this
- section is served (either in person or by mail) is, in fact,
the
- alien named in such notice;
- "(E) a record is maintained for judicial review, and
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- "(F) the final order of removal is not adjudicated by the
- same person who issues the charges.
- "(5) No alien described in this section shall be eligible for
any
- relief from removal that the Attorney General may grant in
the
- Attorney General's discretion."
- (c) Section 238(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
relating to judicial removal
- is amended to read as follows:
- "(d) Stipulated judicial order of deportation. -- The United
States
- Attorney may, pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure
11, enter into a
- plea agreement which calls for the alien to waive the right to
notice and a
- hearing under this section, and stipulate to the entry of a
judicial order of
- deportation from the United States as a condition of the plea
agreement or as
- a condition of probation or supervised release, or both. The
United States
- district court, in both felony and misdemeanor cases, and a
United States
- magistrate judge in misdemeanor cases, may accept such a
stipulation and
- shall have jurisdiction to enter a judicial order of
deportation pursuant to the
- terms of such stipulation."
- (d) Section 242(f)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is
amended to read as
- follows:
- "(2) Particular cases. -- Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, no
- court shall enjoin or stay, whether temporarily or otherwise,
the removal of
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- any alien pursuant to a final order under this section unless
the alien shows by
- clear and convincing evidence that the entry or execution of
such order is
- prohibited as a matter of law."
- Sec. 505: Clarification of Continuing Nature of
Failure-to-Depart Offense, and
- Deletion of Provisions on Suspension of Sentence.
- (a) Subparagraph (A) of section 243(a)(1) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8
- U.S.C. 1253(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
- "(A) willfully --
- "(1) fails or refuses to depart from the United States within a
period of
- 30 days from the date of the final order of removal under
administrative
- processes, or if judicial review is had, then from the date of
the final order of
- the court; or
- "(2) remains in the United States more than 30 days after the
date of the
- final is had, then more than 30 days after the date of the
final order of the
- court,".
- (b) Section 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C.253) is amended
- by striking--
- (1) paragraph (3) of subsection (a); and
- (2) subsection (b).
- Sec. 506. Additional Removal Authorities.
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- (a) Section 241(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1231(b)(1)) is
- amended by inserting at the end the following:
- "(D) OTHER PLACES OF REMOVAL. --
- "(i) The Attorney General may direct that the alien be
removed
- to another country or region if the Attorney General determines
that
- removal to any country specified in the preceding subparagraphs
is
- impracticable, inadvisable or impossible.
- "(ii) The Attorney General may direct that an alien be
removed
- to any country or region regardless of whether the country or
region
- has a government, recognized by the United States or
otherwise."
- (b) Section 241(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1231(b)(1)) is
- amended by inserting at the end the following:
- "(G) OTHER PLACES OF REMOVAL. --
- "(i) The Attorney General may direct that the alien be
removed
- to another country or region if the Attorney General determines
that
- removal to any country specified in the preceding subparagraphs
is
- impracticable, inadvisable, or impossible.
- "(ii) The Attorney General may direct that an alien be
removed
- to any country or region regardless of whether the country or
region
- has a government, recognized by the United States or
otherwise.".
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