§4834 Security Review Committee Findings and Report

Summary

The Security Review Committee must look at the Report of Investigation and all other evidence about a Serious Security Incident at a U.S. mission abroad. The committee must write findings about whether the event was security related and qualified as a Serious Security Incident. If the event involved a diplomatic compound, motorcade, residence, or other mission facility, the committee must say whether security systems, countermeasures, and procedures worked as intended and whether they meaningfully reduced the attack or were inadequate. If the event involved officers on an approved operation outside the mission, the committee must say whether the operation’s risks were properly evaluated, but it will not assign blame unless an official breached a duty. The committee must also report on how intelligence and threat information affected the mission and note any other facts relevant to mission security. Within 60 days of getting the Report of Investigation, the committee must send a report with its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of State. Within 90 days after that, the Secretary must send the report to the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations, Select Committee on Intelligence, and Appropriations, and to the House Committees on Foreign Affairs, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Appropriations. If investigators find reasonable cause that an individual breached a duty or failed in related duties, they must tell the committee; if the committee agrees, it must report that to the Secretary for appropriate action.