FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020 5:00 AM EST Kris Says FBI's Proposed Surveillance Reforms Are Insufficient. The Washington Times (1/15, Mordock, 492K) reports that the FBI's proposal "to prevent future blunders in its applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants was blasted as 'insufficient' Wednesday by the adviser overseeing the bureau's reforms: David Kris said Director Wray's proposed actions are not enough to ensure the court's confidence in future applications. In a brief filed with the FISA court, Kris said, "These efforts are a reasonable beginning, but they are not sufficient and should be expanded and supplemented." The Washington Examiner (1/15, Dunleavy, 448K) reports that Kris wrote in the filing, "Standards and procedures, checklists and questionnaires, automated workflows, training modules, and after-the-fact audits are all important, but they cannot be allowed to substitute for a strong FBI culture of individual ownership and responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of FISA applications. ... Without that, even the best procedures will not suffice; indeed, expanded procedures dictating multiple layers of review and approval could backfire, creating a kind of moral hazard in which each layer believes, or assumes, that errors have or will be caught by the others. Organizational culture is paramount to real reform, and the inspector general's report suggests that the FBI's culture of accuracy has suffered." The Washington Post (1115, Barrett, 14.2M) says Kris "argued that to ensure better FBI practices, Justice Department lawyers should be more directly involved in the training of agents on surveillance applications, and in the drafting of applications, noting that the FBI, while part of the Justice Department, does not always work well with them." Kris wrote, "Historically, the FBI has not always worked cooperatively with DOJ, especially in foreign intelligence and