Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation

Submitting OIG:

Department of Justice OIG

Date Issued:

Monday, December 9, 2019

Agency Reviewed / Investigated:

Department of Justice

Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:

20-012

Component, if applicable:

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Other DOJ Components

Location(s):

Agency-Wide

Type of Report:

Review

Number of Recommendations:

View Document:

Attachment	Size
o20012.pdf	26.66 MB

Recommendation Number	Recommendation Status	Significant Recommendation	Additional Details
1a	Open	No	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Ensure that adequate procedures are in place for the Office of Intelligence (OI) to obtain all relevant and accurate information, including access to Confidential Human Source (CHS) information, needed to prepare FISA applications and renewal applications. This effort should include revising items 1a. through 1d. on page 415 of report.
1b	Open	No	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Ensure that adequate procedures are in place for the Office of Intelligence (OI) to obtain all relevant and accurate information, including access to Confidential Human Source (CHS) information, needed to prepare FISA applications and renewal applications. This effort should include revising items 1a. through 1d. on page 415 of the report.
2a	Open	No	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.
2b	Open	No	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.
4	Open	No	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Address the problems with the administration and assessment of CHSs identified in the report. (see items 4a. through 4f. on pages 415 and 416)
6	Open	No	https://oig.justice.gov/reports
Ensure that appropriate training on DIOG § 4 is provided to emphasize the constitutional implications of certain monitoring situations and to ensure that agents account for these concerns, both in the tasking of CHSs and in the way they document interactions with and tasking of CHSs.

Recommendation Number

Recommendation Status

Significant Recommendation

Additional Details

Open

https://oig.justice.gov/reports

Ensure that adequate procedures are in place for the Office of Intelligence (OI) to obtain all relevant and accurate information, including access to Confidential Human Source (CHS) information, needed to prepare FISA applications and renewal applications. This effort should include revising items 1a. through 1d. on page 415 of report.

Open

https://oig.justice.gov/reports

Open

https://oig.justice.gov/reports

Evaluate which types of Sensitive Investigative Matters (SIM) require advance notification to a senior Department official, such as the Deputy Attorney General, in addition to the notifications currently required for SIMs, especially for case openings that implicate core First Amendment activity and raise policy considerations or heighten enterprise risk, and establish implementing policies and guidance, as necessary.