The General Accounting Office, which is Congress' arm for performing audits of government agency operations, is allowed free access to any financial records held by the agencies it is examining (12 U.S.C. § 3413(j)).
Updated January 22, 2020
This is archived content from the U.S. Department of Justice website. The information here may be outdated and links may no longer function. Please contact webmaster@usdoj.gov if you have any questions about the archive site.