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Violent Extremism: Agencies' and Financial Institutions' Efforts to Link Financing to Domestic Threats
GAO-23-105928
Sep 13, 2023
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1 Open Recommendations
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National Counterterrorism Center The Director of NCTC, in consultation with FBI and DHS, should ensure its process for developing any future updates to the U.S. Violent Extremist Mobilization Indicators booklet clarifies that Treasury can and should seek input and expertise from FinCEN on potential financial indicators. (Recommendation 1)
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Homeland Security: Office of Intelligence and Analysis Should Improve Privacy Oversight and Assessment of Its Effectiveness
GAO-23-105475
Sep 12, 2023
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9 Open Recommendations
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis should ensure that I&A's intelligence oversight branch documents the reviews it conducts to verify I&A personnel's compliance with I&A's guidelines for protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis should establish a goal for the number of compliance reviews that I&A's intelligence oversight branch is to conduct during a given period to verify personnel's compliance with I&A's guidelines for protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis should assess the intelligence oversight branch's performance against its goal for compliance reviews, including identifying any factors preventing it from meeting this goal and any needed corrective actions. (Recommendation 3)
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis should establish time frames for completing I&A's standard operating procedure for conducting preliminary inquiries and should finalize this procedure according to these time frames. (Recommendation 4)
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis should identify who is responsible for conducting the audits of information systems and bulk data described in I&A's Intelligence Oversight Guidelines, and to whom the results of these audits should be reported. (Recommendation 5)
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Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis should ensure that the responsible entities conduct audits of information systems and bulk data, as described in I&A's Intelligence Oversight Guidelines. (Recommendation 6)
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Biometric Identity System: DHS Needs to Address Significant Shortcomings in Program Management and Privacy
GAO-23-105959
Sep 12, 2023
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9 Open Recommendations
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should direct the OBIM Director to update the cost estimate for the HART program to account for all costs and incorporate the best practices called for in the GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should direct the OBIM Director to revise the schedule estimate for the HART program that incorporates the best practices called for in the GAO Schedule Assessment Guide. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should direct the OBIM Director to coordinate with the Privacy Office to establish and implement a timeline for updating the HART PIA to fully describe the categories of individuals whose data will be stored in HART and the partners with whom the system shares information. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should direct the Privacy Office to describe planned methodologies for determining that all privacy controls are implemented correctly and operating as intended for future control assessments of the HART program. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should direct the Privacy Office to develop a timeline for completing the planned HART privacy compliance review. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of DHS should direct the OBIM Director to coordinate with the Privacy Office to establish and implement plans for correcting seven remaining privacy deficiencies identified in the HART PIA. (Recommendation 6)
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Southwest Border: Additional Actions Needed to Address Cultural and Natural Resource Impacts from Barrier Construction
GAO-23-105443
Sep 07, 2023
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3 Open Recommendations
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United States Customs and Border Protection The Commissioner of CBP should document, jointly with Interior, a strategy to mitigate cultural and natural resource impacts from border barrier construction that defines agency roles and responsibilities for undertaking specific mitigation actions; identifies the costs, associated funding sources, and time frames necessary to implement them; and specifies when agencies are to consult with Tribes. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Interior The Secretary of the Interior should document, jointly with CBP, a strategy to mitigate cultural and natural resource impacts from border barrier construction that defines agency roles and responsibilities for undertaking specific mitigation actions; identifies the costs, associated funding sources, and time frames necessary to implement them; and specifies when agencies are to consult with Tribes. (Recommendation 2)
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United States Customs and Border Protection The Commissioner of CBP, with input from Interior, DOD, Tribes, and stakeholders, should evaluate lessons learned from its prior assessments of potential impacts. (Recommendation 3)
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