FBI Drops Law Enforcement as 'Primary' Mission - Mission creep

[Lauren Johnson]

From the FBI.Gov website:

Our Priorities
The FBI focuses on threats that challenge the foundations of American society or involve dangers too large or complex for any local or state authority to handle alone. In executing the following priorities, the FBIas both a national security and law enforcement organizationwill produce and use intelligence to protect the nation from threats and to bring to justice those who violate the law.
1. Protect the United States from terrorist attack
2. Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage
3. Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes
4. Combat public corruption at all levels
5. Protect civil rights
6. Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises
7. Combat major white-collar crime
8. Combat significant violent crime
9. Support federal, state, local and international partners
10. Upgrade technology to successfully perform the FBI's mission

Notice number 7: it has to be MAJOR white-collar crime. Apparently the 2008 'til now financial disaster is not 'major white-collar crime' since it was largely not investigated. What would it take to get to the "major" category?

Silly me, I read No. 4 as "combine public corruption at all levels"... and then continued seeing combine instead of combat for the rest. That dyslexia, eh.

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