Jane Harman: “the defense communications budget and the defense information security budget are not part of the National Foreign…”

“the defense communications budget and the defense information security budget are not part of the National Foreign Intelligence program. Only the NFIB will be managed by the NID, as it is today by the DCI. So those budgets will not be covered. Secondly, the Menendez substitute does not address the reorganization of Congress. It does not collapse the appropriations authority into the authorizing committee. That does not happen under this substitute.”