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...secretary of DHS, has proposed changing the unit's name to Bureau of Investigations and Criminal Enforcement, partly to better reflect what the agency does and also to banish any perceptions that it's merely a reincarnation of the poorly regarded, now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service. But the FBI is objecting, contending that the proposed name is too close...
...rivalry goes well beyond the naming game. ICE, which was formed from several pre-9/11 entities, has become a serious investigative law enforcement agency with about the same number of employees as the FBI (both employ over 20,000). ICE's broad portfolio now includes, among other duties, running the Federal air marshals service, investigating money-laundering and other cross-border smuggling crimes, protecting the airspace over Washington, D.C., carrying out marine drug interdictions, and providing security at federal buildings nationwide. At times, the line between ICE's portfolio and the FBI's isn't clear, a made...
...FBI, which wouldn't comment for this story, is bristling that another high-profile agency might put the word "Investigations" in its title, sources close to the dispute said. The nomenclature clash even triggered a recent White House meeting in which the FBI's objections were aired. DHS first proposed the change late last year, sources there said. In February, it used the hoped-for title on the cover page of its fiscal 2005 budget request...
...This latest round of bickering has rekindled memories of a similar battle a year ago in which the FBI seized control of terrorism-related financial investigations from Homeland Security. Separately, Ridge is still upset, according to sources who work with him, over being blindsided by the Justice Department and FBI pre-Memorial Day press conference regarding possible terrorist attacks at various special events this summer. There was no fresh or specific intelligence to back up the dire warning, DHS sources maintain...
...stagehands of the Conference of Studio Unions represented a communist attempt to take over Hollywood, and that belief changed his political views forever. In the subsequent era of the blacklists, Reagan not only cooperated in the purging of suspected communists but also served as an undercover FBI informant. Speaking to TIME's Laurence Barrett three decades later about his recollection of the leftists' tactics, he said with unusual bitterness, "I discovered it firsthand--the cynicism, the brutality, the complete lack of morality in their positions, and the cold-bloodedness of their attempt, at any cost, to gain control of that...