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Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (Redacted)
From the Background: "The Department of Justice (Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) undertook this review to examine certain actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department during an FBI investigation opened on July 31, 2016, known as 'Crossfire Hurricane,' into whether individuals associated with the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2019-12
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Audit of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Mobile Enforcement Team Program
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) established its Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) program in 1995 to combat violent drug-related crime. This Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) audit examined "the design and implementation of the MET program and to evaluate the success of MET [Mobile Enforcement Team] enforcement operations. [The OIG] performed [...] audit work at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia; the Atlanta Division Office; and the St. Louis Division Office. At these locations, we interviewed personnel including Section Chiefs, Staff Coordinators, Special Agents in Charge, Assistant Special Agents in Charge, and Group Supervisors. [The OIG] also examined MET deployment requests, assessments, and budget documents, as well as arrest, seizure, and MET deployment impact information." The report makes six recommendations to improve the MET program.
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-12
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Federal Prison Industries, Inc. Annual Management Report Fiscal Year 2010 [Commentary and Summary]
This Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report
"contains the Annual Management Report of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. In accordance with the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. §9105), and under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Cotton & Company LLP performed the audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-12
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010 [Commentary and Summary]
This Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report "contains the Annual Financial Statements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), KPMG LLP performed the FBI's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-12
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Federal Prison Industries, Inc. Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010 [Commentary and Summary]
This Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report "contains the Annual Financial Statements of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Cotton & Company LLP performed the FPI's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-12
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U.S. Department of Justice Annual Financial Statements, Fiscal Year 2010
"This audit report contains the Annual Financial Statements of the U.S. Department of Justice (Department) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), KPMG LLP performed the Department's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. For FY 2009, the Department also received an unqualified opinion on its financial statements (OIG Report No. 10-05)."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-12
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U.S. Department of Justice Annual Special-Purpose Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010 [Commentary and Summary]
"This audit report contains the Annual Special-Purpose Financial Statements, also known as the Closing Package Financial Statements, of the U.S. Department of Justice (Department) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) performed the Department's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 special-purpose financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. The FY 2009 special-purpose financial statement audit was performed by KPMG, LLP and also resulted in an unqualified opinion (OIG Report No. 1006)."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-12
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Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Padilla v. Kentucky
"In Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment requires defense counsel to advise a noncitizen client of the risk of deportation arising from a guilty plea. Defense counsel's failure to so advise, or defense counsel's misadvice regarding the immigration consequences of the plea, may constitute ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984). [...]. This monograph is organized in a way that makes it easy for the reader to use both as an introduction to immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and as a resource for future reference when specific issues arise. The opening section provides an overview of the removal process and an introduction to relevant immigration terminology. This section covers basic concepts, including how the Government places an alien in removal proceedings, what occurs during such proceedings, and what happens after a final order of removal is issued against the alien. If the reader is unfamiliar with this process, we recommend that he or she briefly review the opening section. For the reader who is preparing for a plea colloquy or a settlement negotiation, or who for some other reason needs to evaluate the potential consequences of a particular crime, he or she should consult Sections 2 and 3. These sections provide a framework for evaluating immigration consequences, beginning with the most direct and immediate consequences."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of Immigration Litigation
2010-11
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Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ability to Address the National Security Cyber Intrusion Threat (Redacted)
The objectives of this Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit "were to: (1) evaluate FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] efforts in developing and operating the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF) to address the national security cyber threat; and (2) assess FBI field offices' capabilities to investigate national security cyber cases. These objectives focused mainly on the FBI's highest cyber priority, counterterrorism and counterintelligence intrusions. [The OIG] conducted field work at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., the NCIJTF, and at 10 of the FBI's 56 field offices. [The OIG] interviewed officials from the FBI Cyber Division and representatives from the FBI's partner agencies at the NCIJTF. In the 10 field offices [...] visited, [the OIG] interviewed FBI special agents responsible for managing cyber squads and investigating national security intrusion cases, as well as 36 agents who conduct these investigations. [The OIG] found that the FBI has completed the interim goals for the NCIJTF as developed under the CNCI and has identified techniques and tactics being used to attack U.S. computer networks. The FBI developed an operational plan for the NCIJTF, established threat focus cells to address specific cyber threats, incorporated many Intelligence Community and law enforcement partners into the day-to-day operations of the NCIJTF, and has had some operational successes in mitigating cyber threats against the United States. Despite these accomplishments, the NCIJTF needs to continue to improve its capabilities to combat cyber attacks."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-04
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Audit of Office of Justice Programs Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative Funding Received by Hudspeth County, Texas
"The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative (SWBPI) funding awarded by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to Hudspeth County, Texas. From fiscal years (FYs) 2002 through 2008, Hudspeth County received SWBPI funding totaling $6,190,854 on a pro-rata basis. Hudspeth County has also requested but not yet received $177,737 in SWBPI funding for FY 2009. Many drug and other criminal cases occurring along the southwest border are initiated by a federal law enforcement agency or federal multi-jurisdictional task forces, e.g., High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF). Many U.S. Attorneys have developed prosecution guidelines that govern the most common violations of federal law. These prosecution guidelines are used by law enforcement agencies to determine whether to file a case in federal, state, or county court. As a result, many federally initiated cases occurring near the southwest border are referred to the state or county for prosecution. […] The objective of our audit was to determine if the SWBPI reimbursements received by Hudspeth County were allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and terms and conditions of the SWBPI."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2010-11
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Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance State and Local Emergency Preparedness Program Grant to the City of Jersey City, New Jersey
"The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General, Audit Division, has completed an audit of the State and Local Emergency Preparedness Program (SLEP) grant, number 2003-DD-BX-1014, awarded to the City of Jersey City, New Jersey (Jersey City), by the Office of Justice Program's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). In August 2003, BJA awarded Jersey City a total of $10,700,000. The purpose of the SLEP grant award was to improve both the capability and reliability of Jersey City's emergency and public service communications systems. The objective of our audit was to determine whether reimbursements claimed for costs under the grant were allowable, supported, and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and the terms and conditions of the grant. We also assessed Jersey City's program performance in meeting the grant objectives and overall accomplishments. We determined that Jersey City did not fully comply with the grant requirements we tested. We reviewed Jersey City's compliance with nine essential grant conditions and found internal control weaknesses in seven of the nine areas we tested: (1) internal control environment, (2) grant expenditures, (3) progress and financial reporting, (4) budget management and control, (5) monitoring contractors, (6) compliance with award special conditions, and (7) program performance and accomplishments. Because of the deficiencies identified, we are questioning $1,125,000, or 10.5 percent, of the grant funds."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2011-03
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Assets Forfeiture Fund and Seized Asset Deposit Fund Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010
"The Assets Forfeiture Fund and Seized Asset Deposit Fund (AFF/SADF) is a reporting entity within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The AFF/SADF were created to serve as repositories for funds seized by participating agencies and the sale proceeds from forfeited property. [...] This audit report contains the Annual Financial Statements of the AFF/SADF for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), KPMG LLP performed the AFF/SADF's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. For FY 2009, the AFF/SADF also received an unqualified opinion on its financial statements."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-01
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Audit of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' National Response Team
From the executive summary: "In 1978, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) established its National Response Team (NRT) to assist other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in determining the cause and origin of major arson and explosives incidents. Since its inception, the NRT has provided assistance in over 700 investigations, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As of September 2010, the NRT consisted of 3 team leaders, 16 full-time members, and 112 part-time members from throughout ATF. An activated team normally consists of approximately 15 agents and attempts to arrive at a fire or explosion scene within 24 hours after receiving the initial request for assistance and stays at the site for 3 to 7 days. While on-scene, the NRT assists other federal, state, and local agencies in sifting through debris to obtain evidence related to the explosion or fire, identifying the seat of the blast or the origin of the fire, and conducting interviews. The NRT responded to 63 incidents between fiscal years (FY) 2007 and 2009. The objectives of this audit were to: (1) examine ATF's use of the NRT, including its effectiveness; and (2) examine the management of the NRT Program."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-01
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United States Marshals Service Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010
This Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report "contains the Annual Financial Statements of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Cotton & Company LLP performed the USMS's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-01
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Review of the Award Process for the Bureau of Justice Assistance Recovery Act Grant Program for Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands, Category V
"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) created the Recovery Act Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Discretionary Grant Program and appropriated $225 million to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to fund the program. Through this program, the BJA can provide funding to Indian Tribes in the following five categories: Category I: Construction of detention facilities for adult and juvenile Offenders; Category II: Construction of single-tribe or regional multipurpose justice centers; Category III: Renovation of existing detention facilities; Category IV: Construction of alternative sentencing facilities; Category V: Training and technical assistance for Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program. [...] As of November 2010, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) obligated approximately $5 million for category V awards. The BJA awarded over $4.7 million under the Recovery Act Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program to one category V recipient, Justice Solutions Group (JSG). The BJA awarded the remaining $263,000 as a supplement to an existing contract with the Alpha Corporation to provide National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance assistance to tribal grantees. This report focuses only on the awards made under category V of the Recovery Act Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program. [...] The objectives of this review were to assess: (1) the application evaluation process used by the BJA in its funding decision for awards under the Recovery Act Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program, and (2) if grants awarded under category V of the Recovery Act Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program were made in an open and competitive manner."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-02
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Office of Justice Programs Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010
"This audit report contains the Annual Financial Statements of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), KPMG LLP performed OJP's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-02
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Drug Enforcement Administration Annual Financial Statements Fiscal Year 2010
"This audit report contains the Annual Financial Statements of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the fiscal years (FY) ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009. Under the direction of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), KPMG LLP performed the DEA's audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted government auditing standards. The audit resulted in an unqualified opinion on the FY 2010 financial statements. An unqualified opinion means that the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and the results of the entity's operations in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2011-02
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Recent Inspector General Reports Concerning the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Statement of Glenn A. Fine Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, April 14, 2010
From the opening statement of Glenn A. Fine: "In the report issued in January 2010 that is the subject of this hearing, we examined in depth the use of exigent letters. The report detailed how the FBI's practice of using exigent letters evolved, how widespread it became, and the management failures that allowed it to occur. In addition, our report identified other informal ways, in addition to exigent letters, by which the FBI obtained telephone records without legal process. For example, we identified requests made by e-mail, face-to-face, on post-it notes, and by telephone, as well as a practice referred to by the FBI and the providers as 'sneak peeks.' We also describe in our report other improper practices related to the FBI's obtaining of telephone records, such as obtaining records on hot numbers without any legal process, the improper use of administrative subpoenas in certain cases, inaccurate statements to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and improper requests for reporters' telephone records without required approvals."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
Fine, Glenn A.
2010-04-14
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Office of Justice Programs' Management of Its Offender Reentry Initiatives
"The objective of this audit was to examine OJP's [Office of Justice Programs] design and management of its three prisoner reentry grant programs. The scope of our audit covered the development of the SVORI [Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative] grant program in FY 2002 and also covered subsequent OJP reentry grant programs through January 2010. We performed audit work at OJP headquarters, including at the offices of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). In addition, we interviewed officials at the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) to assess federal reentry efforts. We reviewed laws, regulations, and other guidance regarding OJP's reentry program grants funding, design, management, administration, award activities, policies, and procedures. In addition, we reviewed documentation related to the reentry grant programs, including program solicitations, grant award documentation, and monitoring documentation relating to grants awarded between FYs 2002 through 2009."
United States. Department of Justice. Audit Division
2010-07
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Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
"In his February 27,2001, Address to a Joint Session of Congress, President George W. Bush declared that racial profiling is 'wrong and we will end it in America.' He directed the Attorney General to review the use by Federal law enforcement authorities of race as a factor in conducting stops, searches and other law enforcement investigative procedures. The Attorney General, in turn, instructed the Civil Rights Division to develop guidance for Federal officials to ensure an end to racial profiling in law enforcement. 'Racial profiling' at its core concerns the invidious use of race or ethnicity as a criterion in conducting stops, searches and other law enforcement investigative procedures. It is premised on the erroneous assumption that any particular individual of one race or ethnicity is more likely to engage in misconduct than any particular individual of another race or ethnicity […] The use of race as the basis for law enforcement decision-making clearly has a terrible cost, both to the individuals who suffer invidious discrimination and to the Nation, whose goal of 'liberty and justice for all' recedes with every act of such discrimination. For this reason, this guidance in many cases imposes more restrictions on the consideration of race and ethnicity in Federal law enforcement than the Constitution requires. This guidance prohibits racial profiling in law enforcement practices without hindering the important work of our Nation's public safety officials, particularly the intensified anti-terrorism efforts precipitated by the events of September 11, 2001."
United States. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division
2003-06
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Attorney General's Report to the President Pursuant to Executive Order 13392, Entitled 'Improving Agency Disclosure of Information'
"This is the second report of the Attorney General. In accordance with the Executive Order, this report is based on the annual the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reports for FY06 that the agencies submitted earlier this year, and it provides 'an update on the agencies' implementation of the FOIA and of their plans' for improving their FOIA operations. On December 14, 2005, the President issued Executive Order 13,392 on 'Improving Agency Disclosure of Information.' In the Order, the President stated that '[t]he effective functioning of our constitutional democracy depends upon the participation in public life of a citizenry that is well informed,' and that 'the FOIA has provided an important means through which the public can obtain information regarding the activities of Federal agencies.' Accordingly, the President established the policy that agency FOIA operations shall be 'citizen-centered' and be 'both results-oriented and produce results.' As the President stated, '[a] citizen-centered and results-oriented approach will improve service and performance, thereby strengthening compliance with the FOIA, and will help avoid disputes and related litigation.'"
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
2007-06-01
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Coordination of Investigations by Department of Justice Violent Crime Task Forces
"Our review assessed how well the Violent Crime Impact Teams (VCIT), Mobile Enforcement Teams (MET), Safe Streets Task Forces (SSTF), and the Regional Fugitive Task Forces (RFTF) coordinate their work, including whether the task forces conduct duplicate investigations, cooperate in joint investigations, and 'deconflict' law enforcement events to avoid interfering with one another's field operations and to ensure officer safety. In conducting this review, we interviewed officials from the Office of the Deputy Attorney General; ATF, DEA, FBI, and USMS managers at headquarters and in field offices; U.S. Attorney's Office officials; Special Agents and Deputy Marshals; and state and local law enforcement officials. The Department of Justice (Department) has been making increasing use of different types of task forces; teams of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers; to help tribal, state, and local governments reduce violent crime. At the end of fiscal year (FY) 2005, there were 84 cities with more than 1 violent crime task force operated by the Department and its components, up from 20 cities at the beginning of FY 2003. As the number of cities with multiple task forces has increased, concerns have also risen among Department officials, members of Congress, and local police chiefs that the Department's task force investigations must be well coordinated to avoid duplication of effort."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2007-05
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Identification and Review of the Department's Major Information Technology Systems Inventory
"This audit report responds to a directive contained in the fiscal year (FY) 2006 Department of Justice appropriations bill conference report that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), among other things, provide an inventory of major Department of Justice (DOJ) information technology (IT) systems.1 In a prior report, the OIG developed a preliminary inventory of DOJ IT investments based on DOJ's reporting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In this report, the OIG has refined the inventory to identify 38 major DOJ IT systems and to provide cost and other information on the 38 systems. In addition, this OIG audit provides information on the way that DOJ collects cost information for its IT investments. In this report, we provide information on DOJ's IT inventory, including system names, descriptions, DOJ component owner, future funding requirements, and implementation status. This information is discussed throughout the report and is summarized in the report appendices."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2007-06
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United States Marshals Service's Workforce Planning and Management
"In this audit, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) assessed the USMS's management of its workforce. The specific objectives of the audit were to determine whether the USMS: (1) adequately designed, tested, and implemented a workforce management plan that sufficiently assesses its human resources and capacity requirements based on current and expected workloads; (2) evaluates, monitors, and corrects, if necessary, its personnel utilization to ensure it directs appropriate resources to its highest priorities and achieves its organizational objectives; (3) has sufficiently addressed pay compensation issues, including job-grade and career progression; and (4) has provided adequate and appropriate training to its operational employees. To accomplish these objectives, we interviewed more than 180 USMS personnel, including the USMS Director and U.S. Marshals in most of the offices we visited. We also analyzed empirical data related to the USMS's resource allocation, utilization, and workload for the period of FYs 2000 through 2005. Finally, we conducted fieldwork at seven USMS district offices -- the Central District of California, D.C. Superior Court, District of Rhode Island, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Florida, Southern District of New York, and Western District of Texas. Additional information about our audit scope and methodology is contained in Appendix I."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2007-07
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Health, Safety, and Security Conditions in the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse Space Utilized by the U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia Superior Court
"The OIG examined the United States Marshals Service (USMS) space to determine if it met federal construction and maintenance standards for detention facilities and federal occupational health and safety standards and made recommendations as appropriate. This is a limited version of the OIG's full 55-page report. The full report includes information that the USMS considered to be law enforcement sensitive and that therefore could not be publicly released. To create this public version of the report, the OIG removed information from the full report that we agreed was sensitive because it disclosed potential security vulnerabilities."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2007-09
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Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case
"The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995, was, at the time, the most significant act of terrorism that had ever taken place in the United States. Government agencies, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), immediately began an extensive investigation to identify and prosecute the culprits. The investigation, known as OKBOMB, was run by a Task Force that consisted primarily of FBI investigators and support personnel and Department of Justice prosecutors. Within a few months, three individuals-Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier-were indicted for crimes relating to the bombing. McVeigh and Nichols were convicted after trials, and Fortier pled guilty as part of a plea agreement with the government. McVeigh, who had devised the plot to bomb the Murrah Building and had planted the bomb, was sentenced to death. On May 8, 2001, one week before McVeigh's scheduled execution date, the Department of Justice and the FBI revealed to McVeigh's and Nichols' attorneys that over 700 investigative documents had not been disclosed to the defendants before their trials. The government acknowledged that it had violated a discovery order in the case, and the Attorney General stayed McVeigh's execution for one month in order to resolve the legal issues arising from the belated disclosure. Following the public revelation of the problem, and after finding and releasing more than 300 additional OKBOMB documents to the defense, the FBI came under severe criticism for its handling of the OKBOMB documents."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2002-03-19
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Follow-up Review of the Status of IDENT/IAFIS Integration
"United States immigration authorities have long recognized the need for an automated fingerprint identification system to quickly determine the immigration and criminal histories of aliens they apprehend. However, the inability of immigration and law enforcement fingerprint identification systems to share information prevents law enforcement agencies from identifying criminals and wanted aliens in their custody, and has led to tragic results in some cases. In a report issued earlier this year, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) described one such case, where border authorities twice released a man attempting to enter the country illegally. He subsequently returned to the United States illegally and traveled to Oregon where he raped two nuns, killing one. Because the federal government's immigration and law enforcement fingerprint databases were not linked, the immigration agents who stopped and released him at the border never learned of his extensive criminal record. See OIG report entitled 'IDENT/IAFIS: The Batres Case and the Status of the Integration Project,' March 2004 (Batres report). Congress has expressed increasing concern that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) have not been integrated. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress required that the fingerprint identification systems of law enforcement agencies be made interoperable so that criminals and known or suspected terrorists can be more readily identified."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2004-12
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Follow-up Audit of the Terrorist Screening Center
"Overall, this follow-up audit found that the TSC has enhanced its efforts to ensure the quality of watchlist data, has increased staff assigned to data quality management, and has developed a process and a separate office to address complaints filed by persons seeking relief from adverse effects related to terrorist watchlist screening. However, we also determined that the TSC's management of the watchlist continues to have weaknesses. For example, the TSC is relying on two interconnected versions of the watchlist database. As a result of this and other conditions, we identified several known or suspected terrorists who were not watchlisted appropriately. In addition, because of internal FBI watchlisting processes, we found that the FBI bypasses the normal international terrorist watchlist nomination process and enters these nominations directly into a downstream screening system. This process is cumbersome for the TSC and, as a result, the TSC is unable to ensure that consistent, accurate, and complete terrorist information is disseminated to frontline screening agents in a timely manner. We also concluded that the TSC needs to further improve its efforts for ensuring the accuracy of the watchlist records. We found that, in general, the TSC's actions to review records as part of a targeted special project successfully ensured the quality of the data. In contrast, our examination of the routine quality assurance reviews revealed continued problems. We examined 105 records subject to the routine quality assurance review and found that 38 percent of the records we tested continued to contain errors or inconsistencies that were not identified through the TSC's quality assurance efforts. Although the TSC had clearly increased its quality assurance efforts"
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2007-09
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Review of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Violent Crime Impact Team Initiative
"In June 2004, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) established the Violent Crime Impact Team (VCIT) initiative as a pilot program designed to reduce homicides and other firearms-related violent crime in 15 cities. The goal of the VCIT initiative was to 'decrease, within six months, the number of homicides, number of firearms-related homicides, number of violent crimes, and number of violent firearms crimes' in target areas in those 15 cities. In December 2004, ATF extended the initiative indefinitely and, in April 2005, expanded it to include a total of 20 cities. There were two primary purposes of the VCIT initiative, as articulated by the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) and ATF. The first was to reduce homicides and violent firearms crimes in cities where homicide and violent crime rates had not followed the national trend downward. The second was to test the effectiveness of the VCIT strategy in reducing, rather than displacing, the incidents of firearms-related violence in neighborhoods and communities by identifying, targeting, and arresting the 'worst of the worst' violent offenders in specific targeted areas referred to as hot spots. The VCIT initiative was designed to build on regular law enforcement operations and the Department's Project Safe Neighborhoods."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2006-05
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Follow-up of the FBI's Progress Toward Biometric Interoperability Between IAFIS and IDENT
"This is the Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) sixth review examining the ability of federal law enforcement and immigration authorities to share automated fingerprint identification information. In this report, we describe the progress since December 2004 toward achieving full interoperability between two automated fingerprint systems: the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Automated Biometric Identification (IDENT). We also describe the DHS's efforts to make its United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) system interoperable with IAFIS. Achieving full interoperability among these systems is intended to provide federal, state, and local law enforcement and immigration officials with direct, real-time access to information in the millions of criminal history and immigration records in IAFIS, IDENT, and US-VISIT. U.S. immigration authorities have long recognized the need for an automated fingerprint identification system to quickly determine the immigration and criminal histories of aliens they apprehend. The FBI and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), now part of the DHS, began discussing integrating IAFIS and IDENT in the early 1990s, when the two systems were under development. However, the agencies had a difference of opinion, stemming from the different purposes of their systems, as to the number of fingerprints to collect from apprehended individuals. The FBI created IAFIS to automate its Criminal Master File of 10 rolled fingerprints and serve the needs of the broader law enforcement community."
United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General
2006-07
