FBI Edits Mission Statement: Removes Law Enforcement As 'Primary' Purpose 539
schwit1 writes with news that the FBI has altered their declared primary function from "law enforcement" to "national security." From the article: "Following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI picked up scores of new responsibilities related to terrorism and counterintelligence while maintaining a finite amount of resources. What's not in question is that government agencies tend to benefit in numerous ways when considered critical to national security as opposed to law enforcement. 'If you tie yourself to national security, you get funding and you get exemptions on disclosure cases,' said McClanahan. 'You get all the wonderful arguments about how if you don't get your way, buildings will blow up and the country will be less safe.'"
One or the other? (Score:5, Funny)
Are the two mutually exclusive? Call me naive, but would it be possible to protect national security within the law?
Actually, don't answer that. They should just change it again to "our primary function is to get more funding" and have done with it.
Re:The military did not destroy Rome ... (Score:0, Funny)
The military industrial complex did not destroy Rome. It was the free bread and circuses and other freebies designed to buy the votes of the citizenry. This not only racked up the debt but it undermined the concept of citizenship. Undermined the idea that citizens (both patricians and plebeians) should contribute to the greatness of their country, not that the greatness of their country entitled them to freebies.
Nice whitewash there. It's common knowledge that the Roman Empire was destroyed by their transition to the metric system. The very same metric system that tried to infiltrate the United States back in the 70s.
Re:It definitely *IS* a ruse ! (Score:5, Funny)
"With FBI withdrawing from "Law Enforcement", who is in charge of interstate criminal activities, racketeering, and so on ??"
Wall Street?
Re:Put a fork in it, it's done. (Score:3, Funny)
Didn't you read TFA? The US isn't a police state because the FBI has defined itself as being no longer the police.
Re:Put a fork in it, it's done. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Put a fork in it, it's done. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm just glad I got to live to vote for the first black President!
Long live President Clinton!