[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3381]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 281. Ms. KLOBUCHAR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. ESTABLISHMENT OF A HYBRID THREAT CENTER ON 
                   INFLUENCE OPERATIONS OF FOREIGN ADVERSARIES.

       (a) Definition of Intelligence Community.--In this section, 
     the term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning given 
     such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 
     (50 U.S.C. 3003).
       (b) Establishment.--The Director of National Intelligence 
     shall establish a hybrid threat center (in this section 
     referred to as the ``Center'') to assess and track, in a 
     cross-discipline and holistic manner, influence operations of 
     foreign adversaries carried out against the United States.
       (c) Composition.--The Director shall ensure that the Center 
     is composed of individuals from across the intelligence 
     community who are experts in the following:
       (1) Cybersecurity.
       (2) Military communications.
       (3) Finance.
       (4) Economics.
       (5) Disinformation.
       (6) Emerging technology.
       (7) Leadership.
       (8) Regional affairs.
       (d) Functions.--The functions of the Center are as follows:
       (1) To assess and track influence operations of foreign 
     adversaries, including operations of adversaries carried out 
     domestically and operations carried out abroad.
       (2) To make information available to the public regarding 
     trends, threats, and tactics deployed by foreign adversaries 
     to undermine democratic institutions and influence public 
     opinion in the United States.
       (3) To monitor disinformation operations and influence 
     campaigns of foreign adversaries.
       (4) To give the intelligence community and policymakers 
     greater visibility into nebulous, cross-border influence 
     operations of foreign adversaries.
       (5) To monitor open source information, particularly on 
     social media, to analyze disinformation campaigns and the 
     weaponization of information and ensure that open source 
     intelligence is given appropriate weight in analytic products 
     of the intelligence community.
       (6) To monitor technological trends, particularly important 
     in cybersecurity and disinformation operations of foreign 
     adversaries, so policymakers can adapt the responses of the 
     Federal Government accordingly.
       (7) To share information, as appropriate, with allied 
     intelligence partners on foreign influence operations and 
     tactics and in so doing establish a two-way exchange of 
     threat information.
       (e) Annual Reports.--Not less frequently than once each 
     year, the Center shall submit to Congress a report on the 
     activities of the Center and the implications of such 
     activities to the privacy and civil liberties of the people 
     of the United States.
       (f) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Center should supplant existing task forces at 
     individual agencies that have mandates and resources which 
     are limited by their particular mission and budget;
       (2) the intelligence community and Congress should work 
     together to resolve existing legal limitations on elements of 
     the intelligence community to monitor disinformation 
     operations;
       (3) the intelligence community and Congress should ensure 
     that appropriate legal authorities are in place to protect 
     the privacy and civil liberties of United States citizens; 
     and
       (4) lessons learned from post-9/11 counterterrorism 
     experiences should be applied to foreign interference 
     threats.
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