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MottoFidelity, Bravery, Integrity
Parent organizationUS/DOJ
Interest ofDan Bongino, Ty Clevenger, Maria Farmer, Ronald Kessler, Lok Lau, Betty Medsger, John Potash, The Twitter Files
Founder ofCombined DNA Index System, Next Generation Identification
Exposed byLok Lau, John Lipsky (FBI), Coleen Rowley
SubpageFBI/Academy
FBI/Activities 1971-2001
FBI/Associate Deputy Director
FBI/Corruption
FBI/Criminal Cyber Response and Services Branch
FBI/Deputy Director
FBI/Director
FBI/Directorate of Intelligence
FBI/Laboratory
FBI/National Executive Institute
FBI/National Security Branch

Primary Mission

The 'primary mission' of the FBI, formerly "law enforcement" was noted to have silently changed in 2013 to "national security". FBI spokesman Paul Bresson stated that "When our mission changed after 9/11, our fact sheet changed to reflect that".[1]

History

J. Edgar Hoover

More than anyone else, J. Edgar Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at age 77. Hoover built the FBI into a large crime-fighting agency, and used it as a an information gathering apparatus to collect blackmail material on political dissenters, activists and political leaders.[2] According to President Harry S. Truman, Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him".[3] However, biographer Kenneth D. Ackerman considers these kind of statements to be hyperbole.[4]

External links

  • http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/01/05/fbi_drops_law_enforcement_as_primary_mission#sthash.dTe9DVfT.jIRBPwhT.dpbs
  • ""Hoover, J. Edgar", The Columbia Encyclopedia" (Sixth ed.). Columbia University Press. 2007. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  • Anthony Summers, "The secret life of J Edgar Hoover, The Guardian, Sunday January 1, 2012
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