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Article: Stunned guns: how we've made the FBI too timid to bug mosques--or Ken Lay's office.
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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One of the strangest things about the 9/11 Commission's report is that the FBI, whose intelligence failures during the summer of 2001 had been the most glaring of all the security agencies, actually managed to get itself ... promoted. The Bureau's jurisdiction over domestic counterterrorism remains intact, its leadership has been left in place, its authority increased by the Patriot Act, and its budget for 2005 upped by Congress beyond what either President Bush or FBI Director Robert Mueller had requested. For close watchers of the Bureau, all of this came as something of a shock. Virtually everyone in Washington and the intelligence community had expected the FBI to have ...