Data Protection Review Court, 62303-62308 [2022-22234]

Agencies

• Department of Justice
• Office of the Attorney General

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 198 (Friday, October 14, 2022)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 62303-62308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22234]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of the Attorney General

28 CFR Part 201

[Docket No. NSD 103; Attorney General Order No. 5517-2022]
RIN 1105-AB68


Data Protection Review Court

AGENCY: Department of Justice.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: As authorized and directed by the Executive order of October 
7, 2022, ``Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence 
Activities,'' this rule amends Department of Justice regulations to 
establish within the Department a Data Protection Review Court 
(``DPRC''). The DPRC will review determinations made by the Civil 
Liberties Protection Officer of the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence (``ODNI CLPO'') in response to qualifying complaints that 
allege certain violations of United States law in the conduct of United 
States signals intelligence activities. Applications for review by the 
DPRC must be filed by individuals through the appropriate public 
authority in a designated foreign

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country or regional economic integration organization. To facilitate 
their independent and impartial review, DPRC judges will not be subject 
to the day-to-day supervision of the Attorney General and will be 
subject to removal protections. DPRC decisions, including the direction 
of appropriate remedial measures to be undertaken by United States 
intelligence agencies, will be final and binding. Individual 
complainants will not be informed whether they were subject to signals 
intelligence activities, but instead will receive a standardized notice 
that states that the DPRC's review has been completed and either did 
not identify any covered violations or the DPRC issued a determination 
requiring any appropriate remediation.

DATES: This rule is effective October 14, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Bradford Wiegmann, Deputy Assistant 
Attorney General, National Security Division, United States Department 
of Justice, Washington, DC 20530; telephone: (202) 514-1057.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    Section 3 of the Executive order of October 7, 2022 authorizes and 
directs the Attorney General to issue regulations to establish a Data 
Protection Review Court as the second level of a two-level redress 
mechanism. The redress mechanism will provide for the review of 
qualifying complaints by individuals, filed through appropriate public 
authorities in designated foreign countries or regional economic 
integration organizations, alleging certain violations of United States 
law concerning United States signals intelligence activities. The 
Executive order of October 7, 2022 implements commitments made by the 
United States as part of the U.S.-EU Data Privacy Framework announced 
in March 2022 to foster trans-Atlantic data flows. The Framework was 
developed in response to a 2020 ruling by the Court of Justice of the 
European Union that invalidated the European Commission's ``adequacy 
decision'' for the United States, which was part of the then-existing 
U.S.-EU Privacy Shield Framework.
    The new redress mechanism established by the Executive order of 
October 7, 2022 will have two levels. The first level is the 
investigation, review, and determination by the Civil Liberties 
Protection Officer of the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence (``ODNI CLPO'') of whether a covered violation occurred 
and, where necessary, the appropriate remediation in response to a 
qualifying complaint. As a second level, the complainant or an element 
of the Intelligence Community may seek review by the DPRC of the ODNI 
CLPO's determinations.
    The DPRC will be established within the Department of Justice 
(``Department''), consisting of individuals chosen from outside the 
United States Government, to provide independent and impartial review 
of applications for review. Exercising the Attorney General's authority 
under 28 U.S.C. 511 and 512 to provide his advice and opinion on 
questions of law and the authority delegated to the Attorney General 
under the Executive order of October 7, 2022, as delegated to the DPRC 
in this rule by the Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 510, the 
DPRC will review whether the ODNI CLPO's determination regarding the 
occurrence of a covered violation was legally correct and supported by 
substantial evidence and whether, in the event of a covered violation, 
the ODNI CLPO's determination as to the appropriate remediation was 
consistent with the Executive order of October 7, 2022.

II. Discussion of Rule

    This rule establishes within the Department a DPRC. The DPRC will 
review, upon an application for review, the ODNI CLPO's determinations 
made in response to a qualifying complaint, transmitted through the 
appropriate public authority in a designated foreign country or 
regional economic integration organization, from an individual who 
alleged a covered violation of United States law in the conduct of 
United States signals intelligence activities that adversely affected 
the complainant's individual privacy and civil liberties interests.
    The DPRC will consist of six or more judges appointed by the 
Attorney General from outside the United States Government. To 
facilitate their independent and impartial review of the applications 
for review, the judges will not be subject to the day-to-day 
supervision of the Attorney General and may not be removed or subjected 
to other adverse action arising from their service on the DPRC, except 
for instances of misconduct, malfeasance, breach of security, neglect 
of duty, or incapacity. The DPRC panels will have access to the 
classified national security information they need to conduct their 
reviews and make decisions. In accordance with section 3(d)(ii) and 
(iv) of the Executive order of October 7, 2022, those decisions, 
including the direction of appropriate remedial measures, will be final 
and binding with respect to the application for review.
    Applications for review may be filed by an individual complainant 
after receiving notification that the ODNI CLPO has completed its 
review or by an element of the Intelligence Community. Applications for 
review by complainants must be filed through the appropriate public 
authority in a ``qualifying state,'' which is defined under the rule as 
a country or regional economic integration organization designated as a 
qualifying state by the Attorney General under section 3(f) of the 
Executive order of October 7, 2022.
    Each application will be reviewed by a three-judge panel of the 
DPRC convened by the Department's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties 
(``OPCL''). Once convened, the presiding judge on the DPRC panel will 
select a Special Advocate who, in accordance with section 3(d)(i)(C) of 
the Executive order of October 7, 2022, will assist the panel by 
advocating regarding the complainant's interest in the matter and by 
ensuring that the panel is well informed regarding the issues and the 
law. The Special Advocate will not be the agent of or have an attorney-
client relationship with the complainant and, in the interest of 
national security, will be subject to restrictions on communications 
with the complainant and the complainant's counsel to ensure that 
classified or otherwise privileged or protected information, including 
whether or not the complainant was subject to United States signals 
intelligence activities, is not disclosed.
    Each DPRC panel will review the application before it to determine 
whether the ODNI CLPO's determination regarding whether a covered 
violation occurred was legally correct under the applicable law and 
supported by substantial evidence and whether any appropriate 
remediation was consistent with the Executive order of October 7, 2022. 
If the DPRC panel decides that the CLPO's determination does not meet 
these requirements, the panel will issue its own determination, 
including any appropriate remediation. In conducting this review, the 
panel will interpret the Executive order of October 7, 2022 exclusively 
according to United States law and legal traditions and, more 
generally, will be guided by decisions of the United States Supreme 
Court in the same way as a court established under Article III of the 
United States Constitution, including decisions on the appropriate 
deference to be provided relevant determinations of national security 
officials.
    The panel will conduct its review based on the record of the ODNI 
CLPO's review, supplemented by any information or submissions from the

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complainant, the Special Advocate, or an element of the Intelligence 
Community. The DPRC panel may also request that the ODNI CLPO 
supplement the record in response to specific questions from the panel. 
The DPRC panel's decision will be by majority vote, and the panel will 
issue a written decision setting out its determinations and the 
specification of any appropriate remediation.
    The individual complainant will not be informed whether they were 
subject to signals intelligence activities. Instead, the individual 
will receive a standardized notice that states that the DPRC's review 
has been completed, namely that ``the review either did not identify 
any covered violations or the Data Protection Review Court issued 
determinations requiring appropriate remediation,'' and that the 
notification constitutes final agency action.
    OPCL will provide administrative support to the DPRC and the 
Special Advocates.

III. Regulatory Certifications

A. Administrative Procedure Act

    This rule involves the foreign affairs function of the United 
States, relates to a matter of agency management or personnel, and 
involves a matter relating to agency organization, procedure, or 
practice. As such, this rule is exempt from the usual requirements of 
prior notice and comment and a 30-day delay in the effective date. See 
5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1), (a)(2), (b), and (d).

B. Regulatory Flexibility Act

    An analysis under the Regulatory Flexibility Act was not required 
for this rule because the Department was not required to publish a 
general notice of proposed rulemaking for this matter. See 5 U.S.C. 
601(2), 604(a).

C. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995

    This rule will not result in the expenditure by State, local, and 
tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 
million or more in any one year (adjusted for inflation), and it will 
not significantly or uniquely affect small governments. Therefore, no 
actions are necessary under the provisions of the Unfunded Mandates 
Reform Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C 1501 et seq.

D. Congressional Review Act

    This rule is not a major rule as defined by the Congressional 
Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 804(2). Further, because it relates to agency 
management or personnel, it is not a ``rule'' as that term is used in 
the Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 804(3)(b), and, accordingly, the 
reporting requirements of 5 U.S.C. 801 do not apply.

E. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

    This rule does not impose any new reporting or recordkeeping 
requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501 
et seq.

F. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563--Regulatory Review

    Because the rule involves the foreign affairs function of the 
United States, it is not a ``regulation or rule'' under section 3(d) of 
Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and Review,'' and the 
requirements of that order and Executive Order 13563, ``Improving 
Regulation and Regulatory Review,'' accordingly, do not apply. 
Nevertheless, this rule has been drafted and reviewed in accordance 
with section 1(b) of Executive Order 12866 and section 1(b) of 
Executive Order 13563.

G. Executive Order 13132--Federalism

    This rule will not have substantial direct effects on the States, 
on the relationship between the National Government and the States, or 
on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various 
levels of government. Therefore, in accordance with section 6 of 
Executive Order 13132, ``Federalism,'' the Department has determined 
that this rule does not have sufficient federalism implications to 
warrant the preparation of a federalism summary impact statement.

H. Executive Order 12988--Civil Justice Reform

    This rule meets the applicable standards set forth in sections 3(a) 
and 3(b)(2) of Executive Order 12988, ``Civil Justice Reform.''

List of Subjects in 28 CFR Part 201

    Claims, Foreign relations, Privacy, Signals intelligence.


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Accordingly, for the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Department 
of Justice adds part 201 to chapter I of title 28 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations to read as follows:

PART 201--DATA PROTECTION REVIEW COURT

Sec.
201.1 Purpose.
201.2 Definitions.
201.3 Appointment of judges and rules of procedure.
201.4 Appointment of Special Advocates.
201.5 Administrative support for the DPRC.
201.6 Applications for review.
201.7 Convening of panels, conduct of judges, and independence of 
the DPRC.
201.8 Special Advocates.
201.9 Consideration of applications and decisions.
201.10 Guiding principles of law.
201.11 Information security and classified national security 
information.
201.12 Disclaimer.

    Authority:  5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510-512; Executive 
order of October 7, 2022.


Sec.  201.1  Purpose.

    This part establishes an independent and impartial Data Protection 
Review Court (DPRC) to consider, in classified proceedings, 
applications for review of determinations made by the Civil Liberties 
Protection Officer of the Office of the Director of National 
Intelligence (ODNI CLPO) in response to qualifying complaints submitted 
through the redress mechanism established pursuant to section 3 of the 
Executive order of October 7, 2022, ``Enhancing Safeguards for United 
States Signals Intelligence Activities.''


Sec.  201.2  Definitions.

    The terms ``appropriate remediation,'' ``covered violation,'' 
``element of the Intelligence Community,'' ``Intelligence Community,'' 
``national security,'' and ``qualifying complaint'' shall have the same 
meanings as they have in the Executive order of October 7, 2022. The 
term ``qualifying state'' means a country or regional economic 
integration organization designated as a qualifying state by the 
Attorney General pursuant to section 3(f) of the Executive order of 
October 7, 2022.


Sec.  201.3  Appointment of judges and rules of procedure.

    (a) The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Commerce, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Privacy and 
Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), appoint not fewer than six 
individuals to serve as judges on the DPRC for four-year renewable 
terms, choosing individuals who at the time of their initial 
appointment have not been employees of the executive branch in the 
previous two years.
    (b) The Attorney General's appointments shall be informed by the 
criteria used by the executive branch in assessing candidates for the 
Federal judiciary, giving weight to any prior judicial experience, and 
shall be of individuals with appropriate experience in the fields of 
data privacy and national security law. The Attorney General shall 
endeavor to ensure that at least half of the judges at any given time 
have prior judicial experience, and all persons appointed as judges 
shall be active members in good standing of the bar of a State, 
Commonwealth, Territory, or

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Possession, or of the District of Columbia and shall be duly licensed 
to practice law.
    (c) During their term of appointment as judges on the DPRC, such 
judges shall not have any official duties or employment within the 
United States Government other than their official duties and 
employment as judges on the DPRC.
    (d) The DPRC shall review and adopt by majority vote rules of 
procedure consistent with the Executive order of October 7, 2022 and 
this part, which thereafter shall be made publicly available and 
applied by each DPRC panel convened under Sec.  201.7(a). The rules of 
procedure may thereafter be amended at such times and in such ways as a 
majority of the judges may deem necessary and appropriate to accomplish 
the work of the DPRC. A quorum of six judges shall be required for the 
initial adoption of and any amendments to the rules of procedure.


Sec.  201.4  Appointment of Special Advocates.

    (a) The Attorney General shall, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Commerce, the Director of National Intelligence, and the PCLOB, 
appoint no fewer than two individuals to serve as Special Advocates for 
two-year renewable terms, choosing individuals who at the time of their 
initial appointment have not been employees of the executive branch in 
the previous two years.
    (b) All persons appointed as Special Advocates shall have 
appropriate experience in the fields of data privacy and national 
security law, shall be experienced attorneys and active members in good 
standing of the bar of a State, Commonwealth, Territory, or Possession, 
or of the District of Columbia, and shall be duly licensed to practice 
law.


Sec.  201.5  Administrative support for the DPRC.

    (a) The Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties of the Department of 
Justice (OPCL) shall be responsible for providing administrative 
support to the DPRC and the Special Advocates.
    (b) The administrative support provided by OPCL shall include the 
following functions:
    (1) Facilitating the Attorney General's consultations with other 
officials regarding the appointment of judges and Special Advocates;
    (2) Drafting in consultation with relevant agencies rules of 
procedure and, when requested by the DPRC, any amendments thereto for 
consideration by the DPRC;
    (3) Receiving applications for review of determinations made by the 
ODNI CLPO and receiving from the ODNI CLPO its record of review;
    (4) Receiving and maintaining the confidentiality of any written 
information that a complainant filing an application for review wishes 
to provide to the DPRC and of any responses the complainant or their 
counsel provides to questions from the Special Advocate;
    (5) Coordinating with the ODNI CLPO as needed on matters arising 
from an application for review;
    (6) Securely maintaining records pursuant to applicable law;
    (7) Making publicly available information about the DPRC, including 
the names of the judges and Special Advocates, the rules of procedure, 
and the process for filing an application for review, and such other 
information as the DPRC in its discretion deems appropriate for its 
function; and
    (8) Providing other administrative support to the DPRC, its panels 
and judges, and the Special Advocates.


Sec.  201.6  Applications for review.

    (a) A complainant may apply for review by the DPRC of a 
determination made by the ODNI CLPO in response to a qualifying 
complaint submitted by the complainant by filing an application for 
review with the appropriate public authority in a qualifying state, for 
forwarding to OPCL, no later than sixty (60) days after the date, as 
reported to OPCL by the appropriate public authority in a qualifying 
state, on which the complainant receives notification that the ODNI 
CLPO has completed its review.
    (b) The complainant shall submit with the application for review, 
through the appropriate authority in a qualifying state, any 
information, including argument on questions of law or the application 
of law to the facts, that the complainant wishes to provide to the 
DPRC. The complainant may be represented by counsel in submitting this 
information. OPCL shall maintain the confidentiality of such 
information.
    (c) An element of the Intelligence Community may apply for review 
by the DPRC of a determination made by the ODNI CLPO by filing an 
application for review with OPCL no later than sixty (60) days after 
the date on which the element of the Intelligence Community receives 
notification from the ODNI CPLO that the ODNI CLPO has completed its 
review of the qualifying complaint. An application for review filed by 
an element of the Intelligence Community may include any information 
that the element of the Intelligence Community wishes to provide to the 
DPRC, including argument on questions of law or the application of law 
to the facts. To prevent the disclosure of classified or otherwise 
privileged or protected information, the DPRC, Special Advocates, and 
OPCL shall not provide to the complainant any information relating to 
the existence, review, or outcome of any application for review filed 
by an element of the Intelligence Community.


Sec.  201.7  Convening of panels, conduct of judges, and independence 
of the DPRC.

    (a) Upon receipt of an application for review, OPCL shall convene a 
panel of the DPRC by selecting three judges on a rotating basis, while 
ensuring if possible that at least one of the judges selected has prior 
judicial experience.
    (b) The three judges on a DPRC panel shall select a presiding judge 
by unanimous agreement. If agreement is not reached within five (5) 
days of the convening of the DPRC panel, the presiding judge shall be 
the judge who was selected first by OPCL who has prior judicial 
experience; if no judge on the DPRC panel has such experience, the 
presiding judge shall be the judge selected first by OPCL.
    (c) Judges on a DPRC panel shall conduct themselves in accordance 
with the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, except that a judge 
may participate in extrajudicial activities, including business 
activities, financial activities, non-profit fundraising activities, 
fiduciary activities, and the practice of law, where such extrajudicial 
activities do not interfere with the impartial performance of the 
judge's duties or the effectiveness or independence of the DPRC.
    (d) A DPRC panel and its judges shall not be subject to the day-to-
day supervision of the Attorney General. The Attorney General shall not 
remove a judge from a DPRC panel, remove a judge from the DPRC prior to 
the end of the judge's term of appointment under Sec.  201.3(a), or 
take any other adverse action against a judge arising from service on 
the DPRC, except for instances of misconduct, malfeasance, breach of 
security, neglect of duty, or incapacity, after taking due account of 
the standards in the Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability 
Proceedings promulgated by the Judicial Conference of the United States 
pursuant to the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act (28 U.S.C. 351 et 
seq.).


Sec.  201.8  Special Advocates.

    (a) After a DPRC panel is convened under Sec.  201.7(a), the 
presiding judge shall select a Special Advocate to assist the panel in 
the consideration of the application for review.

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    (b) The Special Advocate shall upon selection receive from OPCL the 
application for review and any information that the complainant 
provided under Sec.  201.6(b). The Special Advocate shall not be the 
agent of the complainant, consistent with the rules of professional 
responsibility, and there shall be no attorney-client relationship 
between the Special Advocate and the complainant.
    (c) The Special Advocate shall also have access to the record of 
the ODNI CLPO's review and any information or submissions provided to 
the DPRC panel by an element of the Intelligence Community.
    (d) To prevent the disclosure of classified or otherwise privileged 
or protected information, the Special Advocate shall adhere to the 
following rules on communications with the complainant or the 
complainant's counsel:
    (1) If the complainant did not file an application for review, the 
Special Advocate shall not communicate with the complainant or the 
complainant's counsel.
    (2) If the complainant did file an application for review, the 
Special Advocate may at any stage submit to OPCL written questions for 
the complainant or the complainant's counsel. OPCL shall, in 
consultation with relevant elements of the Intelligence Community, 
review any such questions to ensure they do not disclose any classified 
or otherwise privileged or protected information and, subject to that 
limitation, shall convey the questions through the appropriate public 
authority in a qualifying state to the complainant or the complainant's 
counsel, with an invitation to provide written responses to the Special 
Advocate through the appropriate public authority in a qualifying 
state.
    (e) The Special Advocate shall assist the DPRC panel in its 
consideration of the application for review, including by advocating 
regarding the complainant's interest in the matter and by ensuring that 
the DPRC panel is well informed of the issues and the law with respect 
to the matter. Where the complainant has filed an application for 
review, the submissions of the Special Advocate to the DPRC shall 
include the complainant's application for review and the information 
and responses to questions submitted to the Special Advocate by the 
complainant.
    (f) Affected elements of the Intelligence Community shall be 
provided an opportunity to respond to submissions made by the Special 
Advocate.


Sec.  201.9  Consideration of applications and decisions.

    (a) A DPRC panel shall consider an application for review in a 
manner that is timely, impartial, and consistent with the Executive 
order of October 7, 2022 and this part in order to determine whether a 
covered violation occurred and, if so, to determine any appropriate 
remediation.
    (b) A DPRC panel shall conduct its review based on the record of 
the ODNI CLPO's review and any information or submissions provided by 
the complainant, the Special Advocate, or an element of the 
Intelligence Community. A DPRC panel may request that the ODNI CLPO 
supplement the record with specific explanatory or clarifying 
information and that the ODNI CLPO make additional factual findings 
where necessary to enable the DPRC panel to conduct its review.
    (c) If the DPRC panel finds no evidence in the record indicating 
that signals intelligence activities occurred involving personal 
information of or about the complainant, the DPRC panel shall render a 
decision to that effect.
    (d) In all other cases, the DPRC panel shall determine:
    (1) Whether, under the applicable law as set forth in the 
definition of a covered violation in the Executive order of October 7, 
2022, the ODNI CLPO's determination whether a covered violation 
occurred was legally correct and supported by substantial evidence; and
    (2) Whether, in the event of a covered violation, the ODNI CLPO's 
determination as to the appropriate remediation was consistent with the 
Executive order of October 7, 2022.
    (e) If a DPRC panel decides that a determination by the ODNI CLPO 
does not meet the standard set out in paragraph (d) of this section, 
the DPRC panel shall issue its own determination.
    (f) Prior to determining an appropriate remediation under paragraph 
(e) of this section, a DPRC panel shall seek through the ODNI CLPO the 
views of affected elements of the Intelligence Community regarding the 
appropriate remediation, including an assessment of impacts on the 
operations of the Intelligence Community and the national security of 
the United States. The panel shall take due account of these views as 
well as customary ways of addressing a violation of the type 
identified.
    (g) A DPRC panel shall make its decision by majority vote. Each 
DPRC panel shall issue a written decision setting out its 
determinations and the specification of any appropriate remediation. 
The decision of each DPRC panel shall be final and binding with respect 
to the application for review before it and shall be controlling only 
as to that application for review.
    (h) After the issuance of a written decision under paragraph (g) of 
this section, OPCL shall forward the decision to the ODNI CLPO. If the 
complainant submitted an application for review in the case, OPCL shall 
notify the complainant through the appropriate public authority in a 
qualifying state, without confirming or denying whether the complainant 
was subject to signals intelligence activities, that:
    (1) The DPRC completed its review;
    (2) The review either did not identify any covered violations or 
the Data Protection Review Court issued a determination requiring 
appropriate remediation; and
    (3) The notification to the complainant constitutes the final 
agency action in the matter.
    (i) A DPRC panel shall provide a classified report on information 
indicating a violation of any authority subject to the oversight of the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to the Assistant Attorney 
General for National Security, who shall report violations to the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in accordance with its rules of 
procedure.
    (j) For each application for review, OPCL shall maintain a record 
of the information reviewed by the DPRC panel and the decision of the 
DPRC panel, which records shall be made available for consideration as 
non-binding precedent to future DPRC panels considering applications 
for review.


Sec.  201.10  Guiding principles of law.

    (a) The Executive order of October 7, 2022 and its terms shall be 
interpreted by the DPRC exclusively in light of United States law and 
the United States legal tradition, and not any other source of law.
    (b) In a DPRC panel's review of an application under Sec.  201.9, 
the DPRC panel shall be guided by relevant decisions of the United 
States Supreme Court in the same way as are courts established under 
Article III of the United States Constitution, including those 
decisions regarding appropriate deference to relevant determinations of 
national security officials.


Sec.  201.11  Information security and classified national security 
information.

    (a) All proceedings before and other activities of the DPRC and all 
activities of the Special Advocates shall be governed by Executive 
Order 13526 of

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December 29, 2009, ``Classified National Security Information,'' or any 
successor order, and this part.
    (b) Judges may serve on a DPRC panel convened under Sec.  201.7(a), 
and Special Advocates may be selected to assist a DPRC panel under 
Sec.  201.8(a), only if they hold the requisite security clearances to 
access classified national security information. The DPRC and Special 
Advocates shall have no authority to declassify or grant any person 
access to any classified or otherwise privileged or protected 
information, including the information reviewed in or information about 
the existence or outcome of any proceedings before the DPRC or any 
information that would tend to reveal whether a complainant was subject 
to signals intelligence activities.
    (c) The Department of Justice Security Officer shall be responsible 
for establishing security procedures for proceedings before and other 
activities of the DPRC and the Special Advocate, and for amending those 
procedures as necessary.


Sec.  201.12  Disclaimer.

    This part governs the ability to obtain review of the ODNI CLPO's 
determinations by the DPRC in accordance with the redress mechanism 
established in section 3 of the Executive order of October 7, 2022. 
This part is not intended to, and does not, create any other 
entitlement, right, or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable 
at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its 
departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, 
or any other person. This part is not intended to, and does not, modify 
the availability or scope of any judicial review of the decisions 
rendered through the redress mechanism, which is governed by existing 
law.

    Dated: October 7, 2022.
Merrick B. Garland,
Attorney General.
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