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`Global Terrorism: The FBIs Role`

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The FBI as a Surveillance Agency for Local Threats

The video is a speech or a discussion about the possible plans of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI ) in the future , which the director said that the plan is still being debated . The plan was to convert the FBI into a somewhat counterpart of the other countries ' local intelligence agencies like the Mi5 of the United Kingdom . - a branch lower than the Mi6 . This ultimately means that the FBI will conduct a vaster

operation of local surveillance in to prevent national or international threats from happening within the soil as what happened to the Mumbai attacks a few months ago . However , this network that might soon be established may breach the citizens ' right to privacy , which is the major counterargument against the revamping of the FBI into a tighter national surveillance agency

As FBI Director Robert Mueller III mentioned , it is necessary for the FBI to act as a tighter intelligence agency , much like the CIA , only that it is only on a national level and it may also include the United States ' neighbors (Canada , Mexico , and the Caribbean . He argued that it may be for the best interest of the United States , following the attacks during 9 /11 and the more recent attacks in other countries like the Mumbai attacks in India . According to him , intelligence will enable government counterterrorist agencies to see the unseen (Mueller 2009 . He also argued that intelligence...

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