FBI in 1987 he ordered an in-depth inquiry into the CISPES investigation.  He acknowledged in congressional testimony that the national investigation of CISPES was flawed.  He said that informant Varelli's background and reliability, and thus the accuracy of his information, were never adequately verified by the Dallas field office of the FBI.  He concluded that there was "negligence all along the line" with the way Varelli was handled, but he also maintained that there were no violations of constitutional rights committed by the FBI.


10
Director Sessions requested that the Attorney General approve the formation of a working group consisting of members of the FBI and of other officials within the Department of Justice but outside the FBI to make recommendations regarding the modification of existing FBIguidelines;  he restricted to FBI headquarters the decision to initiate an international terrorism investigation;  he refined the review process;  he ordered additional training of agents in regard to First Amendment activities;  and he moved all records accumulated during the CISPES investigation to the National Archives.  He also disciplined certain personnel involved in the CISPES investigation.  CISPES contended in this 1988 enforcement suit that the same activity which displeased Director Sessions violated the consent decree.


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A consent decree is a form of contract, so we review a district court's interpretation of such a decree as we would its interpretation of a contract-- de novo.  Ordinarily the "scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners...."  United States v. Armour