The OIG provided a draft of this audit report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General (ODAG)
The FBI and ODAG joint response is incorporated in Appendix 2 of this final report
In response to our audit report, the FBI and ODAG concurred with all of our recommendations
The FBI auditors reviewed a small portion of the bureau’s portfolio
They studied 353 cases involving sensitive investigative matters — less than half of the total number of such cases — and found rules broken 747 times from Jan
1, 2018, to June 30, 2019
The audit doesn’t reveal the identities of the people and groups investigated by the FBI
FBI investigations have come under intense scrutiny after reports of cutting corners in recent years, particularly stemming from its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential election
2016–2017 US counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump's associates
\nCrossfire Hurricane was the code name for the counterintelligence investigation undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from July 31
Into links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia and whether individuals associated with [Trump's] presidential campaign were coordinating
Wittingly or unwittinglyWith the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Trump was not personally under investigation until May 2017
When his firing of FBI director James Comey raised suspicions of obstruction of justice
Which triggered the Mueller investigation.
Law enforcement software
Sentinel is a software case management system developed by the US FBI with the aim to replace digital and paper processes with purely digital workflows during investigations.There was a previous failed project called Virtual Case File.
