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Name: The Threat
Rating: 3.3 (39 reviews)
Author: Andrew G. McCabe

Andrew G. McCabe

How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

3.3 (39 Bewertungen)

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The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe is an insightful memoir that exposes Trump’s corrupt activities as FBI’s acting director. It reveals how he protected America from external and internal threats while facing the most challenging situations as a law enforcement official.

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“Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.” That’s the motto of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and these words are just as important for the Bureau today as they were when it was founded back in 1908. In this period, the threats facing America have evolved, and so has the Bureau itself. In the 1920s, mobster violence was the main threat; in the 1970s, the FBI was in the vanguard for the “war on drugs.” And after September 11, 2001, the nation and the FBI entered a new era: that of the “war on terror.”

As former deputy director Andrew McCabe argues, the FBI is not the same organization it was on September 10, 2001. This war on terror necessitated new tactics and approaches, and old methods and structures needed to be updated. To do this, the Bureau was reorganized and revamped.

And along with the ongoing issue of terrorism, a new threat to the American people has emerged since 2017: President Donald Trump. His attempts to influence the FBI and tip the scales of justice in his favor are a new and unprecedented threat to democracy.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

why terrorism and organized crime investigations are much the same;
how terrorist suspects are interrogated; and
how President Trump is undermining an important FBI investigation.

The FBI has changed dramatically since 9/11.

Even though almost two decades have passed, most people vividly remember September 11, 2001. When New York’s Twin Towers collapsed after being struck by hijacked aircraft, everybody watching knew this was a momentous event. Even so, few could’ve predicted just how radically it would alter American society and the wider world.

One organization, in particular, changed irreversibly and almost overnight: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI – the US federal law enforcement agency.

To be clear, the FBI has always investigated terrorist threats. The Counterterrorism Division and its criminal and counterintelligence equivalents have long been the Bureau’s three main branches. The agency mainly concentrated on high-level criminal activity, however, like organized crime and drug trafficking.

This is still a crucial function of the FBI, but 9/11 completely changed the rules of the game and the Bureau shifted its central focus to protecting American citizens by preventing acts of terrorism.

Overnight, counterterrorism operations took precedence, and funding and human resources for the division responsible grew quickly.

This meant, among other things, a growth in the number of units within the Counterterrorism Division. Before September 11 there were only two within the Counterterrorism Division – an Osama bin Laden Unit and a Radical Fundamentalist Unit. After September 11, dozens of counterterrorism units were created, including those dedicated to the financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. But these changes went further than simple resource allocation or restructuring: 9/11 transformed the Bureau’s internal culture.

Before the attacks, the FBI was riddled with division along both departmental and interpersonal lines. There was a fierce rivalry between the criminal and counterterrorism divisions, for example, with each believing they did the “real” work. And the FBI employs over 30,000 people, which requires a diverse range of skills, from bulky strongmen who excel in hand-to-hand combat to computer science experts working on cybersecurity. Often, those with different specializations couldn’t find common ground.

Again, 9/11 changed this. The day after the attacks, it was like a gust of air had blown through the stuffy corridors of the FBI’s Washington headquarters. There was a new sense of unity – everyone there was FBI, and everyone was in it together. The attacks were a watershed moment: The Bureau would never be the same again, and neither would its methods.

Enterprise theory is one of the Bureau’s primary investigative techniques.

The FBI has a mammoth task: Keep the peace, uphold the US Constitution and keep over 350 million American citizens safe. Threats to that safety can come from solitary, “lone wolf” perpetrators, but some of the most dangerous arise when individuals band together to form crime families or terrorist groups.

Thankfully, the FBI employs a number of sophisticated techniques to identify and prosecute these syndicates. One of these is an investigative technique called enterprise theory.

Slowly, the FBI has transitioned from muscling to targeting.

Brains or brawn? People often see the two as mutually exclusive, but things are more complicated than that in a field like law enforcement. Intelligence and strength are both crucial to the FBI, although there has been a shift in the way agents strategically employ them in recent years.

Over the last 15 years, agents have started to prefer targeting techniques rather than a muscling approach.

On President Obama’s orders, the Bureau changed the way it classified interrogation targets.

One consequence of President George W. Bush’s “war on terror” was the need to hold and question a large number of suspects. Many suspected terrorists were held in the now-infamous Guantànamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. At this facility, suspects were treated brutally, deprived of sleep and subjected to inhumane interrogation practices. The United States came under harsh international criticism for its techniques at Guantànamo, and President Obama decided it was time for change.

In 2009, he ordered the creation of a new group – the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG).

There are three types of FBI investigations, and each has a different level of regulation.

Thanks to exaggerated plots in action movies, it’s easy for us to believe that government agencies like the FBI are somehow all-knowing and all-powerful.

But the almighty FBI, allowed to investigate whomever and search whatever it pleases, is a Hollywood myth. The operations of the Bureau are kept in check by highly structured rules, constrained by law and accountable to the government. There are strict rules that govern why someone can be investigated and what can be searched for and used as evidence.

The FBI is being undermined by the Trump administration.

Each section of a state in a healthy democracy needs to be able to carry out its responsibilities free from internal or external influence. Government and law enforcement should work seamlessly but remain independent of one another.

So things clearly aren’t working as they should when we can say, quite seriously, that the President of the United States is compromising the work of his own law enforcement agencies.

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The Threat (2019) offers an inside look at America’s famous nation-wide law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI. Written with the lucid precision you’d expect from a high-ranking former FBI official, this book depicts the organization’s inner workings, details the methods it uses to protect the public, and explains why terrorism and President Donald Trump are currently the nation’s biggest threats.

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Law-enforcement buffs wondering how the FBI operates
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Über den Autor

Andrew G. McCabe spent over two decades of his law-enforcement career working for the FBI. Initially working as a street agent investigating Eurasian organized crime, McCabe transferred to counterterrorism after September 11 and then continued to rise up the ranks. He served as deputy director – the FBI’s second-highest position – for two years and is now retired.

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