U.S. Senator Charles E. Grassley is reportedly seeking Judiciary Committee hearings into the FBI's use of informants and the Bureau's "inadequate controls." One such inadequate control is the use of polygraphy to assess the truthfulness of informants (as well as their "handlers"), and if such a hearing is indeed scheduled, then this would be an ideal opportunity for those with relevant information to bring it to the attention of Congress.

New York Times correspondent Eric Lichtblau mentioned Sen. Grassley's interest in such hearings in a 20 April 2003 article titled, "FBI Spy Case Highlights Problems With Informants."