DHS, DOJ Components’ Use Of Informants Needs Better Oversight, Policy Updates
Components within the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) are not fully addressing procedures outlined in the attorney general's guidelines of established procedures regarding the appropriate use of informants, and lack “adequate oversight” of their use of undercover informants,according to a public version of a sensitive Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit report with redacted details Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deemed law enforcement sensitive.
The DOJ and DHS agencies in question – which used more than 16,000 confidential informants in Fiscal Year 2013 as part of criminal investigations -- are failing “to help ensure that components exercise their authorities” with regard to the use of informants, GAO stated.
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