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Senator Feinstein, the FBI, and the War on Crime

By Jonathan Simor

Yesterday in Washington DC, Senator Diane Feinstein and FBI Director Robert Mueller engaged in an extended an colloquy concerning the FBI's general lack of attention to the war on crime since 911. The Senator, who has clashed with the FBI repeatedly over issues in the war on terror, turned in yesterday's hearing to the question of why violent crime was 8th on the FBI's priority list. According to National Public Radio's account (listen to it here), the FBI director testily noted that the rise in priority of counter terrorism and intelligence had inevitably lowered the priority of crime before going on to practically embrace the Senators criticisms about the diminished role in the war on crime.The episode is another illustration of how bipartisan the war on crime has been in Washington for a long time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).