Bump and Update: The report is out and available here.
A six page summary of the report by DOJ is here. Time Magazine examines the report here.

Certain employees of the Justice Department have been advised to hire lawyers to defend them in a spate of lawsuits that could be filed shortly by people who were detained in the wake of 9/11.

CNN files this report.

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A new report by the Justice Department's investigatory arm, the Office of Inspector General, is scheduled for release Monday on "allegations by civil rights groups and private attorneys that those detained [in the aftermath of September 11] were being deprived of their rights."

The reported findings:

...Immigration and law-enforcement authorities were indifferent to civil rights in the frenzied effort to investigate suspects and to avoid another catastrophe, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

....One conclusion, according to a Justice Department official, is that several dozen people were held beyond the 90-day Immigration and Naturalization Service deadline for deporting or releasing detainees.

The official said that in some cases, the report concludes that the delays were the product of bureaucratic bungling. The official also said, however, that a number of violations may have been ''deliberate.''

[thanks to Patriot Watch for finding the link to the report]