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Self-Regulation and Enforcement: MISC Doc. #5 + Attorney General’s Crimes Guidelines—The Attorney General's Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Terrorism Enterprise Investigations (General Crimes Guidelines) have been in effect, in one form or another, since the mid-1970's. These Guidelines govern all investigations by the FBI of crimes and crme-related activities. They set forth the standards and requirements under which an investigation may be initiated, and they define the permissible scope. duration, subject matters, and objectives of an FBI cnminal investigation. They are designed to provide Special Agents with a framework that maintains the proper balance between the public's need for effective law enforcement and terronsm prevention, on the one hand, and the preservation of individual rights and liberties, on the other Among the provisions that specifically serve to protect individual rights are the following 1) the prohibition against initiating investigations directed solely at the exercise of First Amendment rights or other constitutionally protected activity; and 2) the requirement that agents consider using the least intrusive method necessary to achieve their investigative goals In short, the Guidelines translate the Department's respect for individual nghts and liberties into practical policy, and thereby prevent investigative abuses Attorney General’s National Security/Foreign Intelligence Guidelines—The Attorney General’s Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign intelligence Collection (National Secunty Guidelines) were first issued in 1976, and recently updated in October 2003. These classified guidelines govern the manner in which the FBI conducts its counterintelligence investigations — those investigations that focus on protecting the US from external threats. The National Security Guidelines, like the domestic General Crimes Guidelines, were designed to maintain the proper . balance between the public’s need for effective counterintelligence and the imperative to respect and protect individual rights. The National Security Guidelines contain a number of provisions designed to ensure that individual rights and liberties will be protected, such as the prohibition on investigations of First Amendment activities and the rule that a U.S. person may be the subject of a counterintelligence investigation only if circumstances indicate that he or she might be acting for or on behalf of a foreign power. Internal Enforcement—The FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility and the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General investigate allegations of misconduct. Internal Safeguards—Interral safeguards include the Privacy Council, which reviews the plans of any record system that is proposed within the FBI for compliance with the Privacy Act and related privacy policies, and the Criminal Undercover Operations Review Committee, which 1s comprised of senior DOJ and FBI officials and reviews all proposed undercover operations that involve sensitive circumstances. There also is a Criminal Informant Review Committee, comprised of senior FBI and DOJ officials, which provides oversight over severai categories of human sources, such as high- level criminal informants and long-term sources 72 000000431