2009 Budget and Performance Summary

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) requests 16 positions, 8 FTE (including 2 attorneys), and $1,200,000 to enable the OIG to assist the Department in ensuring that its counterterrorism tools are used effectively and appropriately. With these resources, the OIG will continue to examine issues such as the FBI's use of National Security Letters and the Patriot Act Section 215 orders to obtain business records, its efforts to develop its Sentinel case management system, and its progress in hiring, training, and retaining intelligence analysts. The OIG will continue to conduct audits and reviews on topics such as the Department's involvement with the National Security Agency program known as the "terrorist surveillance program", the operations of the Terrorist Screening Center, the Department's internal controls over terrorism reporting, intelligence sharing, and the BOP's efforts to improve the monitoring of communications for terrorists and other high-risk inmates.