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The Bellows Report May 2000
Part of Chapter twenty
To understand why, it is important to appreciate the dual purposes of the Attorney General' s July 1995 memorandum, which are " to ensure that FI and FCI investigations are conducted lawfully, and that the Department' s criminal and intelligence/ counterintelligence functions are properly coordinated. There is a tension in the achievement of these two purposes. The first purpose, ensuring that the investigations arc conducted lawfully, has to do, for the most part, with the statutory requirement that the " purpose" of electronic surveillance and physical searches conducted pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( " FISA" ) must be " to obtain foreign intelligence information. " 50 U. S. C. § § 1804( a) ( 7) ( B) , 1823( a) ( 7) ( B) . In other words, the primary * purpose" of the FISA coverage [ 939 ] must be to obtain foreign intelligence information, and not to investigate criminal activity. [ 940 ]

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Report Criticizes Stumbling Block Between FBI, Espionage Prosecutors
The 778-page report was focused primarily on the bungling in the Wen Ho Lee investigation, and some portions have been aired before. New sections released yesterday emphasized that dealings among the FBI, the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, and the Criminal Division have been a persistent bureaucratic nightmare not restricted to any one case. "Dysfunctional . . . broken . . . strained" were some of the words cited.
Snip...Bellows's report was submitted to Justice in May 2000 with dozens of recommendations for improvement, primarily at the FBI. FBI spokesman John Collingwood said yesterday that FBI-Justice working groups reviewed all of the recommendations and "in some instances, we implemented reforms that went beyond the recommendations."
An FBI official, who asked not to be named, said improvements were apparent last year during the millennium bomb investigation involving Los Angeles International Airport. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, he said, "there hasn't been so much as a hiccup between us and OIPR. The same is true of the Criminal Division's internal security section."
"I can safely say," this official added, "that there is no room for dysfunctional relationships between this FBI director [Robert S. Mueller III] and this attorney general [John D. Ashcroft]."