gao-Transnational Organized Crime - Actions Needed to Enhance Management and Capabilities of the Watchlist Program-此为英文文档.docx

UnitedStatesGovernmentAccountabilityOffice

ReporttoCongressionalRequesters

July2023

TRANSNATIONAL

ORGANIZEDCRIME

ActionsNeededto

Enhance

ManagementandCapabilitiesoftheWatchlistProgram

GAO-23-105023

GAOHighlightsHighlights

GAO

Highlights

HighlightsGAO-23-105023,areporttocongressionalrequesters

WhyGAODidThisStudy

TransnationalorganizedcrimeactorspresentathreattotheU.S.through

ilicitactivitiessuchastraffickingof

drugs,humans,andfirearms,and

cybercrime.In2015,theDepartmentofJustices(DOJ)TerroristScreening

CenterdevelopedtheTOCActor

DetectionProgram,whichmaintainsa

watchlistofTOCactorsand

WhatGAORecommends

GAOismakingfiverecommendationstoDOJ,includingthattheTerrorist

ScreeningCenterdevelopstrategiestoseekadditionalpartneragencies,

requestredressdatafrompartners,developgoalsandmetrics,and

leveragedatatoassessprogram

performance.DOJconcurredwithourrecommendations.

ViewGAO-23-105023.Formoreinformation,contactTrianaMcNeilat(202)512-8777or

mcneilt@.

effortstomanagetheTOCwatchlist.Thisreportaddresses,amongother

issues,(1)thecompositionoftheTOCwatchlist,andagenciesparticipationintheTOCActorDetectionProgram,(2)theextenttheTeroristScreening

Centerandpartneragencieshave

issuedguidanceontheTOCwatchlist,and(3)theextentprogramdatawereusedforoversight.

GAOanalyzedwatchlistdatafrom

organizations.Partneragencies—in

carryingoutdailyresponsibilitiessuch

asadjudicatingvisaapplications—may

screenindividualstodetermineifthey

matchanidentityinthewatchlistand

takeactions,asappropriate.

GAOwasaskedtoreportonDOJs

fiscalyear2015toJune2022,aswell

asprogramdocumentationfromthe

TerroristScreeningCenterandpartner

agencies.GAOalsointerviewedcenter

officialsandsixof21partneragencies,

selectedbasedontheirlevelof

participationintheprogram.

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