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...Another FBI strength is that its more than 11,000 agents are scattered throughout the country, not only assigned to big cities but distributed geographically. Over the years, these agents have developed working relationships with other federal, state, county, city and tribal law-enforcement officers that multiply the FBI's eyes and ears, hands and feet, and also can be said to form a tight grid that spans every part of the country. The importance of this unique coverage cannot be overstated when it comes to detecting terrorists, who may be anywhere. A new domestic-intelligence bureaucracy would not only...
...FBI agent Rowley, a TIME Person of the Year in 2002, wrote a memo to FBI headquarters that year accusing the bureau of obstructing measures that might have disrupted the 9/11 attacks. Here she is expressing her personal views, not those of the FBI...
...INTEL GAP With 9/11 failings exposed, can the FBI and CIA be fixed...
VIEWPOINT: Whistle-blower Coleen Rowley offers an FBI remedy...
Many years before 9/11 and its aftermath, the FBI was the focus of concern over its ability to balance the need for security with that of privacy. As this 1949 TIME cover on J. Edgar Hoover shows, that worry extends to the earliest decades of the law-enforcement agency...