Congressional Interests

Congressional actions, legislation proposed or enacted, and other matters concerning the legislative branch that affect or relate to intelligence employees, intelligence issues, or have other national security implications.  

The Director of National Intelligence and other IC Leaders presented The 2022 Annual Threat Assessment of the Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on March 8, 2022.  (Click Here for the 2022 Threat Assessment and other DNI Documents and News)

A transcript of the threat briefing before the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) on March 8, 2022 is presented on the CIA website here: WWT/HPSCI

For a comparison of threats facing the U.S. in past years:

See also the DNI’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) on the Intelligence Community’s 2021 Annual Threat Assessment.  (See DNI Statement, April, 2021)

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The DNI’s statement on the 2019 Threat Assessment may be found here: DNI Statement on WWT, January 29, 2019.

FY 22 Intelligence Authorization Act (Public Law 117-103)

DNI press release on FY21 appropriations: “The Congress appropriated an aggregate amount of $60.8 billion to the National Intelligence Program (NIP) for Fiscal Year 2021”

Senate Intelligence Committee’s Volume 2 of its report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections (Russian Use of Social Media). 
See also Volume I (Russian Efforts  Against Election Infrastructure)

 SSCI reports intelligence authorization bills to the Senate for fiscal years 2018, 2019, 2020  (May 22, 2019).  See S. 1589

See (July 11, 2018) SSCI Report to Accompany FY ’18 & ’19 Intelligence Authorization Act 

SSCI Vice Chairman Mark Warner proposed  legislation to improve security clearance processing (December 6, 2018)

 See also (July 12, 2018) House passes intelligence authorizations for FY’18 and ’19

 See (July 3, 2018) SSCI’s Initial Findings Regarding IC’s Assessment of Russian Interference into 2016 Election