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Edgar Hoover. From Maxwell M. Over time, the priorities of the agency have changed depending on the threats facing the nation and the concerns of the American people from land fraud in the early days to counterterrorism today. In , Attorney General Charles J. Federal criminal investigations, at the time, were expanding. Consequently, Bonaparte created a team of detectives in the Department of Justice DOJ that included 12 examiners, 13 miscellaneous investigators and nine United States Secret Service operatives that DOJ had used in the past and who were then permanent hires.
The detectives were paid on a per diem plus expenses basis and led by Chief Examiner Stanley Finch. Attorneys and told them to contact Finch if they required investigative assistance.
Thus, the existence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI began, and it is now one of the most respected law enforcement agencies in the world.
The original Bureau of Investigation — as it was named in — was responsible for investigating approximately two dozen federal offenses that included peonage anarchist activity, land fraud, neutrality violations, and a range of other matters. Interstate human trafficking was added within a year. In the early s, the FBI was largely unknown.
It had been mired in the problems of the early s following the backlash against the Palmer Red Raids and the corruption scandals of the Harding administration, but in the s the agency began to make name for itself.
With the hunt for John Dillinger and his death in a shootout with bureau agents in July , the FBI became internationally known as a premier law enforcement agency. He was well known for his ability to handle a weapon and was an expert marksman. His work helped shape how the public came to view the FBI in the first hundred years.
Because of how powerful Hoover had become, the Department of Justice took steps to rein the bureau in, including limiting the directorship to a single year term, to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. At the same time, the FBI played a pivotal role in the mounting Watergate scandal , with deputy director Mark Felt becoming a key source for the Washington Post reporters writing about the role played by the Nixon administration in the break-in at Democratic National Committee DNC headquarters.
In the s, aside from its continuing efforts to combat Soviet Union espionage, the FBI focused much of its work on global drug trafficking and white-collar crime. Edgar Hoover, and the only one since Hoover to complete the maximum year term.
After announcing in July that she had been cleared of criminal impropriety, FBI Director James Comey made headlines again, writing to Congress three weeks before the election to reveal that new emails had been discovered that could be linked to the case. After Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump , Comey made even bigger waves when he confirmed that the FBI was investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials who wanted to help Trump win the election.
In May , Trump fired Comey, who claimed in a detailed memo that was leaked to the press shortly after he was fired that the president had asked him to drop an inquiry related to Russian involvement in the election.
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