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FINE: We learned it from, I believe, people in the Office of General Counsel, the National Security Law Branch of the FBI, about these issues. I think that's the first people we learned it from -- as well as review of documents and e-mails and things Tike that. GOODLATTE: And what steps have you taken to ensure that the practice was stopped? FINE: And what steps have we taken? The steps we've taken is to inform the FBI about the unacceptability of this practice, to note it, to report it, to let the people who were in charge of the FBI and the general counsel's office Know about it, and make a recommendation that it do stop -- that it does stop. GOODLATTE: When did you make that recommendation? FINE: I think we made the recommendation when our report was issued to the FBI in draft, and I think that was in either December or January of this year -- December of last year or January of this year. GOODLATTE: And, Ms. Caproni, has that practice been stopped? CAPRONI: Yes. GOODLATTE: And what steps have you taken to ensure that it does not persist in any of the offices of the FBI? CAPRONI: Well, first, we're trying to find out whether it did happen in any office other than the unit at headquarters. And we should know that answer probably by the end of this week or sometime next week. Second thing is, the practice of providing a letter with a promise of future legal process has been banned. And, again, we are also developing a vigorous compliance program to make sure that we don't simply make the rule, but we actually have in place some kind of process to make sure that the rules are being followed. GOODLATTE: Current law authorizes a full credit report request for only counterterrorism investigations. The inspector general discovered two instances in the same field office of a full credit report request under counterintetligence investigations.