The Importance Of The FBI

The FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They investigate the crimes of terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, public corruption, civil rights, organized crime, white-collar crime, violent crime, and weapon of mass destruction(WMD). The FBI is highly trained, locally based, passionately committed investigators, analysts, linguists, and SWAT experts. They chase down leads, gather evidence, make arrests, provide security for special events, conduct training, collect and share intelligence, and respond to threats and incidents at a moment’s notice. Spies are targeting the nation’s most valuable secrets. The threat does not only consist of the more traditional spies passing U.S. secrets to foreign governments, there's also cyber-based

The FBI is uniquely situated with the skills and capabilities to run complex undercover operations and surveillance. The FBI opens hundreds of civil rights cases each year. The Civil Rights program has hate crimes, color of law violations, human trafficking, and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act violations subprograms. The FBI eliminates transnational organized crime groups that pose the greatest threat to the national and economic security of the United States. The Bureau has found that even when a key individual in an organization are removed, the depth and financial strength of the organization often allows it to continue, so the FBI targets entire organizations responsible for a variety of criminal activities. The FBI’s white-collar crime combines the analysis of intelligence with the investigation of criminal activities such as public corruption, money laundering, corporate fraud, securities and commodities fraud, mortgage fraud, financial institution fraud, bank fraud and embezzlement, fraud against the government, election law violations, mass marketing fraud, and health care