Thank you.
I'll address my remarks, if I can, to the management of civil agents, which is now the responsibility of the Department of Justice, as opposed to agents on the criminal side.
In the last year we have spent a great deal of effort to put a framework in place that respects open procurement practices for the evaluation and finding and selection of agents, an approach that accords more with how banks and insurance companies do it, other big consumers of legal services. We make assessments at the front end on hiring such agents or recommending the retaining of such agents.
We do not yet have a formal evaluation system in place after the fact for civil agents. However, the nature of the agents we tend to hire in the civil matters makes this a bit difficult. I can explain that at greater length if you'd like, but we have taken many steps to improve the overall process for hiring civil agents since the report of the Auditor General.