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.'"

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Re:Put a fork in it, it's done.

[cold fjord]

1) People have faced at least the prospect of searches if no actual searches since the late 1960s and the epidemic of hijackings.
2) NSA isn't listening to phone calls or reading emails of more than a couple of hundred Americans. They do broadly collect metadata.
3) You seem to be saying that laws exist to enforce safety measures or outlaw stupid behavior. The DNA collection is ill considered, but voluntary. They are being sued.
4) I doubt it. No. Yes. No.
5) You mean the ones that stores use to catch thieves? Or the ones the traffic departments use to help control traffic?

You don't seem to provide any evidence of anything like this noted above:

Who has been sent to jail for making jokes about Obama? Who gets arrested for voting for the "wrong" political party?