D.C. FBI office got an F for fighting domestic terror from officials

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2 years ago, FBI inspectors gave the domestic terrorism program in the bureau’s Washington field office a “failing grade,' considering it both ineffective and inefficient, 2 former FBI officials familiar with the matter tell NBCNews.

Washington, D.C. is considered the top domestic terror target in the country, and the FBI's Inspection Division sent a team to evaluate how the D.C. field office's domestic terrorism programs were working. FBI inspection reports are generally not made public.

"They saw a big need for improvement," said a third former FBI official briefed on the matter."They were uncomfortable with the iconic target city not having the best mechanisms to collect on and counter the threat. They found problems with how they interact with the other agencies, specifically the Capitol Police."

In two separate reviews since then, she said, the office’s grades have improved, and are now at the highest level. She acknowledged that those reviews were not inspections, which are the most rigorous evaluation FBI conducts of its own operations.The sources said the failed inspection wasn't necessarily due to incompetence or bad management – there was a larger context.

 

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