FBI shifting focus from (white-collar) crime to terror

[Deja Q]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0413fbi-terror0413.html

..."It's a healthy step," said Robert Precht, a Honolulu attorney and former federal public defender who has represented defendants in terrorism cases. "It moves us away from the federalization of (lesser) crimes and toward a focus on the truly big ones."

The numbers were collected by the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, a Justice Department agency, and archived by TRACFED, Syracuse University's federal justice data-collection program.

The FBI's shifting emphasis is clearly visible in the caseloads for white-collar crime and narcotics investigations, traditionally the bureau's busiest investigative categories.

White-collar prosecutions based on FBI investigations fell to 2,945 last year from 4,950 in fiscal 2001, a drop of more than 40 percent. Drug cases also declined more than 40 percent. ...


:wow:

[Cooley Hurd]

1. The GOP mustn't prosecute their donors now, can they?

:grr:

[jukes]

2. so they quit pretending to bust the real thieves

to shift to political pretence to keep the masses convinced they're "safe".



:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[Dr.Phool]

3. Well in 2001, just prior to 9-11

Ashcroft quit going after terrorists and started concentrating on porn.