The leaders of the Justice Department and FBI jointly announced Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reforms following revelations about mistakes within and abuses of FISA during and after the 2016 presidential election.

Attorney General William Barr authored two memos, dated Tuesday, that the Justice Department said will “empower the FBI to build a more robust internal compliance program” and “will ensure, among other things, the accuracy of FISA applications, as well as the active oversight of applications targeting federal elected officials, candidates for federal elected office, and their staffs.”