F.B.I. Struggling to Reinvent Itself to Fight Terror - New York Times

F.B.I. Struggling to Reinvent Itself to Fight Terror - New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — Last February, top F.B.I. officers from across the nation gathered in a high-security auditorium for the latest plan to reinvent the crime-fighting agency to take on terrorism.



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Robert S. Mueller III, director of the F.B.I., testifying before a Senate committee hearing last May.
Philip Mudd, who had just joined the bureau from the rival Central Intelligence Agency, was pitching a program called Domain Management, designed to get agents to move beyond chasing criminal cases and start gathering intelligence.

Drawing on things like commercial marketing software and the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping without warrants, the program is supposed to identify threats. Mr. Mudd displayed a map of the San Francisco area, pocked with data showing where Iranian immigrants were clustered — and where, he said, an F.B.I. squad was “hunting.”