§3072a Reports on Exercise of Authority

Summary

The FBI Director must send Congress a report about the use of the authority under section 3072. The first report is due within one year after December 13, 2003, and then once every year. Each yearly report covers the prior 12 months and lists the number of contracts, the cost and length of each contract, the kinds of services bought, whether U.S. government staff could do the same work, and the FBI’s efforts to fill or request intelligence and counterintelligence positions. The report must be unclassified but may include a classified appendix. The classified appendix goes to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The unclassified report goes to those two committees plus the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Governmental Affairs, and the Judiciary, and the House Committees on Appropriations, Government Reform and Oversight, and the Judiciary.