The bill, the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2013, is usually not controversial, but last summer Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) incorporated a new section that would, among other things, bar reporters from conducting background briefings with anyone other than senior intelligence officials or agency flacks, and could effectively bar former government officials cleared at a top-secret level from talking to the press for a year after leaving government (even if the conversations have nothing to do with classified information).