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(U) Profile: SIGINT Legislative Affairs
FROM:
Chief, SIGINT Policy, Legislative Affairs, & Intelligence Security
Run Date: 04/14/2003
(U) The offices of SIGINT Policy, SIGINT Legislative Affairs, and
SERIES:
Intelligence Security Issues are customer-focused, dynamic entities
(U) Communications and
with a myriad functions, all serving to support a wide range of everSupport Operations
changing SIGINT Directorate needs. Their staffs can offer
(CSO)
assistance to you in such diverse areas as policy interpretation and
development, Congressional engagement, and Cryptologic
Insecurities assessment. Read on to find out more about their vital
1. Profiles: SID
services... First up: SID Legislative Affairs
Communications and
Support Operations
(U) SID Legislative Affairs (SIDLA) serves as the liaison between
2. Profile: SID Registry
NSA LAO and SID elements on actions related to Congressional
- Grand Central
oversight. Have you been tasked with responding to Questions for
3. Profile: SIGINT
the Record or Requests for Information from Congress? SID LA will
Support Services
assist you in analyzing the request, providing background and
4. Profile: SIGINT
context to the responsible action office, and reviewing the
Legislative Affairs
responses to ensure that they meet the five Cs (candid, complete,
5. Profile: SIGINT Policy
correct, consistent and corporate) for dealing with Congress.
6. Profile: Intelligence
Security Issues
(U) SID LA reviews Congressional Authorization and Appropriations
language for funding impacts to SID programs, Congressionally
Directed Actions (CDA), and Congressional Items of Interest (CII)
and provides this information to the affected offices. We will assist
you with preparing reclamas to adverse funding language and
responses to CDAs by providing insight on the reasoning behind
the language as well as the proper format in which to respond.
(U) SID LA also assists SID elements in being proactive with
Congress by coordinating briefings and providing notifications for
the Intelligence Committees to keep them fully and currently
informed of significant intelligence activities. We also develop the
SIGINT Congressional Engagement Strategy based on the NSA
Business Plan, SID Strategic Plan Congressional Budget
Justification Book, and CIIs contained in the Congressional
Authorization and Appropriation Language.
(U) For further information, please see our web page . Please
coordinate Congressional engagement of any kind with SID LA so
that we may better serve you.
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without the consent of S0121 (DL sid comms)."
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