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FBI Choosing Mortgage Fraud Over Counterterrorism

— Posted under Blog, Law, Policy, Terrorism on February 12, 2009

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said that the FBI is considering shifting resources away from counterterrorism and national security and toward mortgage fraud!  You read that correctly, there is talk within the administration to prioritize mortgage fraud over national security.

The AP describes it this way:

FBI Deputy Director John Pistole told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the bureau may reassign some of the positions that were reallocated to anti-terrorism work after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Such a move would be a further sign of the government breaking with the Bush administration’s priorities, which pledged to assign every available resource to averting another terrorist attack.

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