Us Congress 2023-2024 Regular Session

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2	2	118THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION S. 2715
5	5	To authorize the Secretary of Defense to conduct detection, monitoring,
6	6	and other operations in cyberspace to counter Mexican transnational
7	7	criminal organizations that are engaged in certain activities that cross
8	8	the southern border of the United States, and for other purposes.
9	9	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
10	10	JULY27, 2023
11	11	Mr. R
12	12	OUNDS(for himself and Mr. MANCHIN) introduced the following bill;
13	13	which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services
14	14	A BILL
15	15	To authorize the Secretary of Defense to conduct detection,
16	16	monitoring, and other operations in cyberspace to
17	17	counter Mexican transnational criminal organizations
18	18	that are engaged in certain activities that cross the
19	19	southern border of the United States, and for other
20	20	purposes.
21	21	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
22	22	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
23	23	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
24	24	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Countering Mexican 4
25	25	Transnational Criminal Organizations in Cyberspace Act 5
26	26	of 2023’’. 6
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29	29	•S 2715 IS
30	30	SEC. 2. AUTHORITY FOR COUNTERING ILLEGAL TRAF-1
31	31	FICKING BY MEXICAN TRANSNATIONAL 2
32	32	CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS IN CYBERSPACE. 3
33	33	(a) A
34	34	UTHORITY.— 4
35	35	(1) I
36	36	N GENERAL.—In accordance with sections 5
37	37	124 and 394 of title 10, United States Code, the 6
38	38	Secretary of Defense may, in coordination with other 7
39	39	relevant Federal departments and agencies and in 8
40	40	consultation with the Government of Mexico as ap-9
41	41	propriate, conduct detection, monitoring, and other 10
42	42	operations in cyberspace to counter Mexican 11
43	43	transnational criminal organizations that are en-12
44	44	gaged in any of the following activities that cross the 13
45	45	southern border of the United States: 14
46	46	(A) Smuggling of illegal drugs, controlled 15
47	47	substances, or precursors thereof. 16
48	48	(B) Human trafficking. 17
49	49	(C) Weapons trafficking. 18
50	50	(D) Other illegal activities. 19
51	51	(2) C
52	52	ERTAIN ENTITIES.—The authority pro-20
53	53	vided by paragraph (1) may be used to counter 21
54	54	Mexican transnational criminal organizations, in-22
55	55	cluding entities cited in the most recent National 23
56	56	Drug Threat Assessment published by the United 24
57	57	States Drug Enforcement Administration, that are 25
58	58	engaged in the activities described in (1). 26
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62	62	(b) CYBERSTRATEGY FOR COUNTERINGILLEGAL 1
63	63	T
64	64	RAFFICKING BYTRANSNATIONALCRIMINALORGANIZA-2
65	65	TIONSAFFECTING THE SECURITY OFUNITEDSTATES 3
66	66	S
67	67	OUTHERNBORDER.— 4
68	68	(1) S
69	69	TRATEGY REQUIRED .—Not later than 60 5
70	70	days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 6
71	71	Secretary shall, in consultation with the National 7
72	72	Cyber Director and the heads of such other Federal 8
73	73	departments and agencies as the Secretary considers 9
74	74	appropriate, submit to the appropriate congressional 10
75	75	committees a strategy for conducting operations in 11
76	76	cyberspace under subsection (a). 12
77	77	(2) E
78	78	LEMENTS.—The strategy submitted pur-13
79	79	suant to paragraph (1) shall include the following: 14
80	80	(A) A description of the cyberspace pres-15
81	81	ence and activities, including any information 16
82	82	operations, of the entities described under sub-17
83	83	section (a)(2) pose to the national security of 18
84	84	the United States. 19
85	85	(B) A description of any previous actions 20
86	86	taken by the Department of Defense to conduct 21
87	87	operations in cyberspace to counter illegal ac-22
88	88	tivities by transnational criminal organizations, 23
89	89	and a description of those actions. 24
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93	93	(C) An assessment of the financial, techno-1
94	94	logical, and personnel resources that the Sec-2
95	95	retary can deploy to exercise the authority pro-3
96	96	vided in subsection (a) to counter illegal traf-4
97	97	ficking by transnational criminal organizations. 5
98	98	(D) Recommendations, if any, for addi-6
99	99	tional authorities as may be required to en-7
100	100	hance the exercise of the authority provided in 8
101	101	subsection (a). 9
102	102	(E) A description of the extent to which 10
103	103	the Secretary has worked, or intends to work, 11
104	104	with the Government of Mexico, interagency 12
105	105	partners, and the private sector to enable oper-13
106	106	ations in cyberspace against illegal trafficking 14
107	107	by transnational criminal organizations. 15
108	108	(F) A description of the security coopera-16
109	109	tion programs in effect on the day before the 17
110	110	date of the enactment of this Act that would 18
111	111	enable the Secretary to cooperate with Mexican 19
112	112	defense partners against illegal trafficking by 20
113	113	transnational criminal organizations in cyber-21
114	114	space. 22
115	115	(G) An assessment of the potential risks 23
116	116	associated with cooperating with Mexican coun-24
117	117	terparts against transnational criminal organi-25
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121	121	zations in cyberspace and ways that those risks 1
122	122	can be mitigated, including in cooperation with 2
123	123	Mexican partners. 3
124	124	(H) A description of any cooperation 4
125	125	agreements or initiatives in effect on the day 5
126	126	before the date of the enactment of this Act 6
127	127	with interagency partners and the government 7
128	128	of Mexico to counter transnational criminal or-8
129	129	ganizations in cyberspace. 9
130	130	(c) Q
131	131	UARTERLYMONITORINGBRIEFING.—The Sec-10
132	132	retary shall, on a quarterly basis in conjunction with the 11
133	133	briefings required by section 484 of title 10, United States 12
134	134	Code, provide to the appropriate congressional committees 13
135	135	a briefing setting forth, for the preceding calendar quar-14
136	136	ter, the following: 15
137	137	(1) Each country in which an operation was 16
138	138	conducted under subsection (a). 17
139	139	(2) The purpose and nature of each operation 18
140	140	set forth pursuant to paragraph (1). 19
141	141	(3) The start date and end date or expected du-20
142	142	ration of each operation set forth pursuant to para-21
143	143	graph (1). 22
144	144	(4) The elements of the Department of Defense 23
145	145	down to O–6 command level who conducted or are 24
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149	149	conducting the operations set forth pursuant to 1
150	150	paragraph (1). 2
151	151	(d) R
152	152	ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-3
153	153	tion shall be construed to supersede any standing prohibi-4
154	154	tions on collection of information on United States per-5
155	155	sons. 6
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