FBI no longer primarily a crime-fighting agency

[n2doc]

A new info-sheet issued by the FBI redefines the bureau's primary mission, dropping "law enforcement" and replacing it with "national security." The bureau has not made any formal announcements regarding this change -- but it does signal that the bureau's leadership views its primary activity as spying on Americans, not catching bad guys, possibly because the budget for spying is effectively bottomless.

http://boingboing.net/2014/01/08/fbi-no-longer-primarily-a-crim.html#more-278740

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. so National Security ONLY means

spying on Americans by you way of thinking?

"...signal that the bureau's leadership views its primary activity as spying on Americans"

[Aerows]

6. I'm waiting for you to scream Benghazi

Sorry, I meant Snowden!

[VanillaRhapsody]

8. I can find lots of topics to discuss...

some here don't seem to! One trick "ponies"

[DefenseLawyer]

2. There are fewer rules they have to follow when they invoke "national security"

By their way of thinking, the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to "National Security"

[KG]

3. apparently, they are not the same thing.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. The Evil Elf turned it in to a cheap spy-ring in 1924 and if he wasn't in on

the JFK assassination he was the most incompetent law enforcer in history .






http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/directors/hoover

[Jenoch]

5. The FBI has always been primarily an

invesigatory agency. The FBI still investgates federal crimes, but they ramped up their hiring the last dozen years in the area of national security and terrorism. That does not mean they are not still the law that investigates federal crimes.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. A tool of the Oligarchs instead of a tool of the Law? n/t

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. Like J Edgar Hoover never spied on Americans?

Holy cow....so the analogy is ONLY NOW the FBI is spying on Americans...that NEVER happened before...