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(j) The authority to offer rewards to apprehend the perpetrators of the crime,

(k) A requirement of forfeiture of the instrumentalities of the crime,

(l) The condemnation of personal or other effects of historical interest,

(m) The advisability of providing consistent with the first amendment legal trust devices to hold for the benefit of victims their families or the General Treasury the profits realized from books movie rights or public appearances by the perpetrator of the crime and,

(n) The applicability of threat and physical zone of protection legislation to persons under the physical protection of Federal investigative or law enforcement agencies

3. The appropriate committees of the House should process for early consideration by the House charter legislation for the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The committees should address the following issues in considering the charter legislation:

(a) The proper foreign and domestic intelligence functions of the intelligence and investigative agencies of the United States,

(b) The relationship between the domestic intelligence functions and the interference with the exercise of individual constitutional rights,

(c) The delineation of proper law enforcement functions and techniques including (i) the use of informants and electronic surveillance (ii) guidelines to circumscribe the use of informants or electronic surveillance to gather intelligence on or investigate groups that may be exercising first amendment freedoms and (iii) the proper response of intelligence or investigative agencies where information is developed that an informant has committed a crime,

(d) Guidelines to consider the circumstances if any when an investigative agency or a component of that agency should be disqualified from taking an active role in an investigation because of an appearance of impropriety growing out of a particular intelligence or investigative action,

(e) Definitions of the legislative scope and extent of as a "sources and methods" and the "informant privilege" as a rationale for the executive branch withholding information in response to congressional or judicial process or other demand for information

(f) Institutionalizing efforts to coordinate the gathering sharing and analysis of intelligence information,

(g) Insuring those agencies that primarily gather intelligence perform their function so as to serve the needs of other agencies that primarily engage in physical protection and,

(h) Implementing mechanisms that would permit inter-agency tasking of particular functions.

B. Prosecution—

1. The Judiciary Committee should consider the impact of the provisions of law dealing with third-party records bail and speedy

H.R 1823