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* Training—The Bureau's training program emphasizes respect for the constitutional rights and dignity of individuals. Agents receive extensive instruction on constitutional law and criminal procedure, and all new agents visit the Holocaust Museum to learn the consequences of government oppression and persecution Then, throughout their careers, agents receive quarterly training from the Chief Division Counsel in each field office to keep them up to speed on the latest guidelines, changes to laws and regulations, and judicial decisions related to constitutional rights and liberties. This. comprehensive infrastructure of legal limitations, oversight and self-regulation effectively ensures that the Bureau's operations always are carried out within Constitutianal and statutory parameters, A number of outside entities and individuals have studied our operations since September 17, 2001, and have found no indication that we have conducted them with less than full regard for civil liberties. The DO's Inspector General, for example, has issued three semi-annual reports, indicating that his office had received no complaints for each six month period alleging misconduct by DOJ employees related to their use of a substantive provision in the USA PATRIOT Act. At an October 21, 2003, hearing of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding the use of USA PATRIOT Act authorities, one senator said that “the tide of criticsm" being directed against the USA PATRIOT Act “is both misinformed and overblown," and that the Justice Department has "done a pretty good job in terms of implementing” the law's provisions. Another senator said, “| have never had a single abuse of the Patriot Act reported to me. My staff e-mailed the ACLU and asked them for instances of actual abuses. They e-mailed back and said they had none.” Similarly, the General Accounting Office (GAO) examined our implementation of the new Attorney General Guidelines. In its June 18, 2003, report on FBI Reorganization, the GAO found ~ that there were no reported allegations that appeared to invalve noncompliance with or abuse of the new investigative authorities granted under the Guidelines. We take great pride tn our record of protecting bath civil liberties and national security since September 11, 2001. It is a testament to the vitality of the existing regime of constitutional, legal and regulatory protections and to the commitment of individual Bureau employees to the protection of individual rights. e., 000000412 MISC DOC. #5 3 Lite valde Steelman, < deiemtheasit sx dee hy i SM Ba