Open Recommendations

Carefully consider whether it must re-examine past cases to see whether potentially discoverable but undisclosed Rule 16 or Brady material was collected by the NSA under the program, and take appropriate steps to ensure that it has complied with its discovery obligations in such cases.

As part of the [Redacted] project, the Justice Department's National Security Division (NSD), working with the FBI, should collect information about the quantity of telephone numbers and e-mail addresses disseminated to FBI field offices that are assigned as Action leads and that require offices to conduct threat assessments.

Consistent with NSD's current oversight activities and as part of its periodic reviews of national security investigations at FBI Headquarters and field offices, NSD should review a representative sampling [Redacted] leads to those offices.

In coordination with the NSA, implement a procedure to identify Stellar Wind-derived information that may be associated with international terrorism cases currently pending or likely to be brought in the future and evaluate whether such information should be disclosed in light of the government's discovery obligations under Rule 16 and Brady.

Rec. A.1.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, DoD, charge a proper appropriation, or coordinate with the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Treasury to:
(1) obtain a waiver to hold a certain amount of cash without charging an appropriation, or
(2) establish a new U.S. Treasury account symbol to charge when cash is obtained from the U.S. Treasury.

Rec. A.1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, DoD, revise DoD Financial Management Regulation 7000.14, volume 5, to reflect the implementation of Recommendation A.1.a.(1)-(2).

The OCIO should continue to update and implement entity-wide security policies and procedures and provide more direction and oversight to Program Offices for completing certification and accreditation requirements. In addition, documentation on application access permissions should be enhanced and linked with functional duties and procedures for granting logical access need to be refined to ensure access is granted only to authorized individuals.

The Bureau of Information Services should develop a comprehensive plan for the testing and evaluation of the agency’s contractor operations.

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If an adverse determination is made for Recommendation 1, collect program payments subject to limitation for each year for which a scheme or device was adopted and for the subsequent year. (The producers’ payments subject to limitation totaled over $1.4 million for the 2000 through 2002 crop years. See exhibit E.)

The Bureau of Information Services should perform a physical inventory of information technology hardware and update the agency’s official fixed asset inventory system.

Continue its FBI Headquarters-managed asset validation review process and provide sufficient resources for the Analytical Unit to devote to these reviews.

Require that any analytical products relating to the asset, together with red flags, derogatory reporting, anomalies, and other counterintelligence concerns be documented in a subsection of the asset's file.

Require the field SSA, the ASAC, and the FBI Headquarters SSA responsible for each asset to signify that they have reviewed the entries in this subsection as part of the routine file review or of semi-annual or annual asset re-evaluations. If anomalies exist, the SSA should note what action has been taken with respect to them, or explain why no action is necessary, and the ASAC's agreement should be noted.

Require agents to record in the asset file any documents passed and all matters discussed with the asset, as well as each person who was present for the meeting.

Require alternate case agents to meet with the source on a regular basis, together with the case agent.

Limit the number of years any Special Agent can continue as an asset's handler. Exceptions should be allowed for good cause only.

1.1 Require UIC to return to the Department the $1,018,212 in federal funds it received for the first three years of the grant

Take appropriate action pursuant to 34 C.F.R. § 74.62 to protect future GEAR UP grant funds.

Require UIC to return to the Department the $1,018,212 in federal funds it received for the first three years of the grant, (see footnote 9)

Take appropriate action pursuant to 34 C.F.R. § 74.62 to protect future GEAR UP grant funds.

OIG recommends that Embassy Lima, Peru, develop and implement a documented nationalization plan with clear goals and attainable objectives for the aviation program.