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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (52238)	5/29/2002 12:45:11 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (3) of 65232

FBI to Shift Resources to Fight Against Terrorism in Sweeping Overhaul Wednesday May 29, 12:17 am Eastern Time WASHINGTON -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation will reassign hundreds of agents from local drug and violent-crime investigations to counterterrorism and intelligence in a sweeping reorganization to be announced today, The Wall Street Journal reported. The changes include a new Office of Intelligence to analyze foreign and domestic terrorist threats, as well as a new cybercrime division. The FBI promises closer coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency and will seek expanded authority to conduct investigations abroad and pursue potential threats at home. The changes follow intensifying criticism of the crime-fighting agency's management and procedures. Those include new details that have emerged in recent days about FBI headquarters' lack of response before Sept. 11 to reports by field agents about religious extremists taking flight training in the U.S. Reorganizing the agency has become an urgent priority for FBI Director Robert Mueller, a former federal prosecutor who took over the bureau a week before the Sept. 11 terror attacks transformed the nation's law-enforcement priorities. The changes he will detail draw together a number of proposals that are under way or are being accelerated. One of those is an overhaul of the agency's long-maligned computer networks, most recently criticized by the Justice Department inspector general and an independent commission. The bureau plans to seek new authority, through legislative or administrative changes, to expand its use of wiretaps under the foreign-intelligence surveillance law; share criminal and grand-jury information with the intelligence community; conduct interviews abroad; and detain aliens for as much as 90 days under immigration rules. ___________________ Wall Street Journal Staff Reporters Gary Fields and John R. Wilke contributed to this report. biz.yahoo.com

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