White House to Keep Agencies Focus on Terrorism
March 26, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
The Obama administration is moving to solidify one of the most significant shifts of resources put into place under President George W. Bush: the transformation of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into agencies where the top priority is counterterrorism rather than conventional law enforcement.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and other Justice Department officials have emphasized that they will not cut resources allocated to national security in the foreseeable future, and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, told lawmakers on Wednesday that “we have no intention of retreating from preventing a terrorist attack on American soil as our No. 1 priority.”
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It’s amazing that the DOJ and FBI are the leads in the fight against terrorist coming into the USA since they have no border authority like DHS/CBP or DHS/ICE. The FBI has to relie on these other agencies to track or have deported undesirables illegal aliens kicked out. There are only a small number amount of domest terrorist groups in the US most of the concern is from those terrorist cells entering in at the borders or ports of entry or sending items in illegally that can hurt this country. The FBI should be merged into the DHS/ICE office of investigations to fight terrorism the right way it should be fought as a unified effort. The goal should be to stop and prevent those who want to harm US citizens before they ever come into the country. Common Sense prevails, once again.
The lone border enforcer.