ABSTRACT
Of the ten priorities listed by the FBI on its website, the first three say that it will protect the US from terrorist attack, from foreign intelligence efforts at espionage, and from cyber-based, high technology crimes. The bureau’s remaining priorities include combating public corruption, criminal organizations, white-collar crime and crimes of violence, protecting citizens’ civil rights, supporting other crime-fighting organizations and upgrading the bureau’s current technology. Note that protecting against terrorist attack is the top priority. Successful investigations of terrorism throughout the world share the same criteria:
(1) An operation needs to have good reason to suspect that some kind of terrorist activity is happening or likely to happen. Simply trolling for possible suspects is not an acceptable procedure in any kind of law enforcement activity.
