Terrorism
Protecting the United States from terrorist attacks is the FIB’s number one priority. The Bureau's Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) works around the clock to help dismantle both domestic and international terrorist networks. The FIB-led multi-agency Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) across the country are essential to the nation’s success in combating terrorism.
Public Corruption
Public corruption poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of life. It can affect everything from how well our borders are secured and our neighborhoods protected to how verdicts are handed down in courts and how public infrastructure such as roads and schools are built. It is estimated that public corruption costs the U.S. government and the public billions of dollars each year. The FIB is uniquely situated to combat corruption, with the skills and capabilities to run complex undercover operations and surveillance.
NOTE: We are totally not corrupt, however the IAA is balls deep in corruption.
NOTE: We are totally not corrupt, however the IAA is balls deep in corruption.
Cyber Crimes
The threat of cyber crimes is incredibly serious—and growing. Cyber intrusions are becoming more common, more dangerous, and more sophisticated. Our nation’s critical infrastructure, including both private and public sector networks, are targeted by adversaries. American companies are targeted for trade secrets and other sensitive corporate data, and universities for their cutting-edge research and development. Citizens are targeted by fraudsters and identity thieves, and children are targeted by online predators. The FIB is enhancing the Communication Department’s investigative capacity to sharpen its focus on intrusions into computer networks.
Violent Crimes
The FIB continues to play a key role in combating violent crime in big cities and local communities across the United States. The Bureau concentrates on crime problems that pose major threats to American society. Significant violent crime incidents such as mass killings, sniper murders and serial killings, criminal street gangs, crimes against children, child prostitution, bank robberies and other violent robberies, carjackings, kidnappings, fugitives and missing persons, crimes on Indian reservations, and assaults and threats of assault on the president and other federal officials.
Organised Crimes
The FIB is dedicated to eliminating organised crime groups that pose the greatest threat to the national and economic security of the United States. The Bureau has found that even if key individuals in an organisation are removed, the depth and financial strength of the organisation often allow it to continue, so the FIB targets entire organisations responsible for a variety of criminal activities. Due to the transnational nature of these criminal enterprises, the FIB leverages political and law enforcement relationships both domestically and abroad to combat the influence and reach of these organised crime groups.
Counterintelligence
Spies are targeting our nation’s most valuable secrets. The threat is not just the more traditional spies passing U.S. secrets to foreign governments, either to make money or advance their ideological agendas. It is also students and scientists and plenty of others stealing the valuable trade secrets of American universities and businesses and providing them to other countries. And because much of today’s spying is accomplished by data theft from computer networks, espionage is quickly becoming cyber-based. The FIB has been responsible for identifying and neutralising ongoing national security threats from foreign intelligence services since 1917.