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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
(21,115 posts)spying on Americans by you way of thinking?
"...signal that the bureau's leadership views its primary activity as spying on Americans"
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Sorry, I meant Snowden!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)some here don't seem to! One trick "ponies"
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)By their way of thinking, the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to "National Security"
KG
(28,751 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)the JFK assassination he was the most incompetent law enforcer in history .
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/directors/hoover
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)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
(9,610 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Holy cow....so the analogy is ONLY NOW the FBI is spying on Americans...that NEVER happened before...