We audited the FBI’s management of its efforts to hire, train, utilize, and retain intelligence analysts. As required by Government Auditing Standards, we reviewed management processes and records to obtain reasonable assurance of the FBI’s compliance with laws and regulations that could have a material effect on FBI operations. Compliance with laws and regulations applicable to the FBI’s management of intelligence analysts is the responsibility of the FBI’s management.

Our audit included examining, on a test basis, evidence about laws and regulations. The specific laws and regulations against which we conducted our tests are contained in the relevant portions of:

• U.S. Code Title § 5377, pay authority for critical positions

Our audit identified no areas where the FBI was not in compliance with the laws and regulations referred to above. With respect to those transactions not tested, nothing came to our attention that caused us to believe that FBI management was not in compliance with the laws and regulations cited above.