S 2103 Reported I Senate – FY 2024 Intel Authorization

Last month, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence published a written report for S 2103, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. The publication of the reported version [note, since the Committee marked up the bill before it was introduced the reported version is the introduced version] of the bill took place back in June. The unclassified portion of the report does not include any additional information on cybersecurity matters.

Normally, this would be the end of this post, but there is an odd entry near the end of the Report (pg 21) under ‘Additional Views’. This area of the report is normally where the minority party explains their objections to items found in the bill. This time, however, the lead ‘Additional View’ is provided by Sen Warner (D,VA) the Committee Chair. He objects to two amendments that were passed without over his objections, neither one of specific interest here.

Those amendments added two new sections to the bill:

Section 312. Office of Intelligence and Analysis

Section 325. Pay cap for diversity, equity, and inclusion staff and contract employees of the Central Intelligence Agency

Interestingly, the next ‘Additional View’ (pg 23) is from Sen Rubio (R,FL) explaining Rubio’s support for §312.