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FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose
schwit1 writes with news that the FBI has altered their declared primary function from "law enforcement" to "national security." From the article: "Following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI picked up scores of new responsibilities related to terrorism and counterintelligence while maintaining a finite amount of resources. What's not in question is that government agencies tend to benefit in numerous ways when considered critical to national security as opposed to law enforcement. 'If you tie yourself to national security, you get funding and you get exemptions on disclosure cases,' said McClanahan. 'You get all the wonderful arguments about how if you don't get your way, buildings will blow up and the country will be less safe.'"
Are the two mutually exclusive? Call me naive, but would it be possible to protect national security within the law?
Actually, don't answer that. They should just change it again to "our primary function is to get more funding" and have done with it.
"With FBI withdrawing from "Law Enforcement", who is in charge of interstate criminal activities, racketeering, and so on ??"
Wall Street?
@de_machina
Didn't you read TFA? The US isn't a police state because the FBI has defined itself as being no longer the police.
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