Order Granting Extension Of Time

UNITED STATES
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Intelligence Surveillance Court
JUN 2 3 2020
LeeAnn Flynn Hall, Clerk of Court
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT
WASHINGTON, D.C.
IN RE ACCURACY CONCERNS REGARDING FBI 	Docket No. Misc. 19-02
MATTERS SUBMITTED TO THE FISC
ORDER GRANTING EXTENSION OF TIME
On April 3, 2020, in this docket, the Court ordered the government to take certain actions
in response to a memorandum by the Department of Justice ' s Office oflnspector General
regarding the Federal Bureau oflnvestigation' s noncompliance with its "Woods Procedures" in
29 applications examined by the OIG. See April 3, 2020, Order; DOJ OIG, Management
Advisory Memorandum for the Director of the FBI Regarding the Execution of Woods
Procedures for Applications Filed with the FISC Relating to US. Persons (March 2020) (OIG
Memorandum). The Woods Procedures are intended to ensure the accuracy of facts proffered in
applications submitted to this Court.
As pertinent now, the Court ordered the government to assess "to what extent those 29
applications involved material misstatements or omissions" and, if so, whether they "render
invalid, in whole or in part, authorizations granted by the Court for that target in the reviewed
docket or other dockets." April 3, 2020, Order at 3. The Court further ordered the government,
by June 15, 2020, to make "a sworn submission reporting on the conduct and results of [those]
assessments ... , including the basis for assessing that particular misstatements or omissions were
not material or otherwise did not render invalid any Court authorization." ld.

On June 15 , 2020, the government made a classified submission that provided such
assessments for 14 of the 29 applications. See Supplemental Response to the Court' s Order
Dated April3 , 2020, and Motion for Extension of Time at 1-2 (June 15 , 2020). (The government
has made available a redacted, unclassified version of that submission at
https://www. justice.go v/nsd/page/file/ 128735 1/download.) The government also requested an
extension of time to July 29, 2020, "to complete its assessment[s] of the remaining 15 of29
applications" and report them to the FISC, citing the need to work "subject to ongoing staffing
restrictions imposed by the coronavirus outbreak without compromising other time sensitive or
mission essential obligations." Id. at 3, 41.
The Court finding good cause to grant the requested extension, IT IS HEREBY
ORDERED THAT by July 29, 2020, the government shall make a sworn submission, as
discussed above, reporting on the conduct and results of the assessments for the remaining 15 of
the 29 applications reviewed by the DOJ OIG.
SO ORDERED.
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Entered this _t,.>_ day of June, 2020.
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