Richardson Amendment dig

Is there any documentation that a journalist has worked for the IC in accordance with this amendment?

A president would have had to sign off on it.

The Richardson amendment requires that the President decide any waiver on the intelligence use of an American journalist.

The statute which was adopted by the House in June of 1996 by an overwhelming vote of 417 to 6, provides that, an element of the Intelligence Community may not use as an agent or asset for the purposes of collecting information any individual who. No. 1, is authorized by contract or by issuance of press credentials to represent himself or herself either in the United States or abroad as a correspondent of the U.S. news media organization, or is officially recognized by a foreign government as a representative of a U.S. media organization, (and this was enacted, strike an element of and insert a policy) it is the policy of the United States and an element of waiver, the President may waive subsection A in the case of an individual if the President certifies in writing that the waiver is necessary to address the overriding national security in-

terests of the United States. The certification shall be made to the

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.