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Federal Bureau of Investigation

History

Resources

• The FBI: Protecting the Homeland in the 21st Century, Report of the Congressionally-directed 9/11 Review Commission, March 2015
• FBI Procedures Under Presidential Policy Directive 28, January 2015
• National Information Sharing Strategy 2011, December 2010
• Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (Redacted Version), December 18, 2008 (19 MB PDF file)
• FBI Budget Justification for FY 2010, May 2009
• Transcript of Background Briefing with Department of Justice Officials on Consolidated Attorney General Guidelines, September 12, 2008
• FY2009: Congressional Budget Submission - Federal Bureau of Investigation, February 2008
• The Attorney General's Guidelines Regarding the Use of FBI Confidential Human Sources, December 13, 2006
• FY2008: Congressional Budget Submission - Federal Bureau of Investigation, February 2007
• White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement, FBI Intelligence Assessment, 17 October 2006
• FBI Announces Restructuring, July 26, 2006
• FBI Legal Attaché Program, DoJ Inspector General Report, March 2004 (1 MB PDF file)
• Terrorist Screening Center, message from the FBI Counterterrorism Division, November 28, 2003
• FBI Response to Media Misinterpretation of its Law Enforcement Sensitive Intelligence Bulletin, November 25, 2003
• Fact Sheet on the Attorney General's Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign Intelligence Collection, Justice Department release, November 5, 2003
• The Attorney General's Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign Intelligence Collection, October 31, 2003 (declassified version, classification modified August 2, 2007)
• FBI Guide to Concealable Weapons 2003
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Implementation of Information Technology Recommendations, September 2003
• Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities, GAO-03-959, September 2003. FBI Comments in Response, GAO-04-190R, November 14, 2003
• FBI Reorganization: Progress Made in Efforts to Transform, but Major Challenges Continue, testimony of David M. Walker, US General Accounting Office, June 18, 2003.
• National Academy of Public Administration Panel on FBI Reorganization, testimony of Dick Thornburgh, June 18, 2003.
• FBI: Mission Impossible? by Jean Kumagai, IEEE Spectrum, April 2003. "With a new computer network, automated investigative tools, and more channels for sharing information, the FBI hopes to finally know what it knows."
• FBI Creates Structure to Support Intelligence Mission, FBI press release, April 3, 2003. "As part of its on-going reorganization efforts, the FBI has put in place for the first time a formal structure to prioritize intelligence exploitation and to establish strategic plans for intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination."
• FBI Reorganization: Initial Steps Encouraging But Broad Transformation Needed (PDF), testimony of GAO Comptroller General David M. Walker, June 21, 2002.
• Attorney General's Investigative Guidelines, May 30, 2002
  • General Crimes, Racketeering and Terrorism Investigations (PDF)
  • FBI Undercover Operations (PDF)
  • Confidential Informants (PDF)
  • Lawful, Warrantless Monitoring of Verbal Communications (PDF)
• Attorney General Ashcroft on New FBI Investigative Guidelines, May 30, 2002. "The revised guidelines will take effect immediately and will be incorporated into the training of FBI agents."
• Fact Sheet on New Attorney General Guidelines (PDF), Justice Department release, May 30, 2002.
• FBI Director Mueller's Remarks on FBI Reorganization, May 29, 2002.
• FBI Strategic Focus, director's presentation, May 29, 2002.
• Attorney General Ashcroft Remarks on FBI Reorganization, May 29.
• FBI Reorganization Fact Sheet, Justice Department, May 29. (PDF)
• A Review of FBI Security Programs, Commission for Review of FBI Security Programs (The Webster Commission), March 2002
• Attorney General Guidelines for FBI Foreign Intelligence Collection and Foreign Counterintelligence Investigations, declassified version (1.2 MB PDF file)
• Attorney General's Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Domestic Security/Terrorism Investigations, 1989 (with Addendum, 3/2/94)
• OLC Opinion on Authority of the FBI to Override International Law in Extraterritorial Law Enforcement Activities, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, June 21, 1989
• J. Edgar Hoover on the Confidential Character of FBI Files, letter to Herbert Brownell Jr., December 11, 1952
• Federal Bureau of Investigation official homepage
• FBI Reorganization, 3 December 2001