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FISC (which should be abolished) issues response to IG

Posted on: April 3, 2020 at 16:56:04 CT
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Horowitz's latest findings.

http://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/Misc%2019%2002%20Order%20PJ%20JEB%20200403.pdf

orders the following:

THEREFORE, the Court ORDERS as follows:
1. The government forthwith shall provide the Court with the names of the targets and the docket numbers for the 29 applications reviewed by the OIG and specify which targets and docket numbers correspond to the four applications for which the FBI could not locate a Woods File and the three for which it could not say whether a Woods File ever existed;

2. The government shall:
(a) assess to what extent those 29 applications involved material misstatements or
omissions; and
(b) assess whether any such material misstatements and omissions render invalid, in whole or in part, authorizations granted by the Court for that target in the reviewed docket or other dockets.

In making those assessments, the government shall prioritize cases and targets for which the FBI
was unable to locate a Woods File for the OIG's review

3. By June 15, 2020, the government shall make a sworn submission reporting on the conduct and results of the assessments required by paragraph 2 above, including the basis for assessing that particular misstatements or omissions were not material or otherwise did not
render invalid any Court authorization;

4. Starting no later than June 15, 2020, and at two-month intervals thereafter, the government shall report on the progress of efforts to account for and ensure the proper maintenance of Woods Files for all dockets beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and, as
appropriate, take associated remedial steps. The government undertook such efforts in response
to one of the recommendations in the OIG Memorandum. See OIG Memorandum at 9, 12; and

5. In its March 5, 2020, Corrected Opinion and Order, the Court required the government, by May 22, 2020, to submit "a description of any audit, review, or compliance mechanisms implement ed or to be implemented by the FBI's Office of Integrity and Compliance or Resource Planning Office that bear on the efficacy of any of the remedial measures discussed" therein. See Opinion and Order at 18. Such submission shall also describe how the government
will use the results of accuracy reviews to identify patterns or trends so that the FBI can enhance
training to improve performance in following the Woods Procedures or improve policies to help
ensure the accuracy of FTSA applications, as it has undertaken to do in response to the other
recommendation in the OIG Memorandum. See OIG Memorandum at 9, 12, 15.

Edited by blake1771 at 16:59:32 on 04/03/20
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