The auditors have given the “good new, bad news” speech to the FBI.
The Justice Department’s Inspector General Office concluded that the FBI has improved its system security since the Robert Hanssen spy debacle but pointed out areas where improvements are incomplete or lacking.
The auditors’ report, titled “A Review of the FBI’s Progress in Responding to the Recommendations in the Office of the Inspector General Report on Robert Hanssen,” Special Report, September 2007, specifically addressed the system upgrades and other reforms that Justice urged the bureau to adopt in the aftermath of the spy case. Hanssen, a senior FBI counterintelligence officer, sold secrets to the Soviet and later Russian government for many years, disclosing intelligence that resulted in the execution of three confidential FBI sources overseas.
The report presented detailed analysis of the status of system upgrades Justice had recommended. The verdict on system upgrade progress included both favorable and unfavorable items.
The upside being that the FBI has managed to make improvements since the Hanssen debacle.
Tags: FBI Audit, Justice Department, FBI IT, Robert Hanssen
