The FBI: Everywhere and in Between (GNOC/GNAZ)

October 27, 2011, 12:00pm

Summary:

Garrett Graff, the author of the new book, The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror recently visited Gen Next for a discussion on his research into 30 years of the FBI.

Detail:

Some key takeaways:
 
1. Since the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, there are have been 50-60 failed attempts of similar attacks.

2. Crime has gone global. Cases that once revolved around a few blocks in Queens now stretch back to the mountains of Sicily. In the last decade, terrorist threats have expanded and are now both imported and exported. American jihadists are traveling to Somalia to attack targets there, and jihadists from Yemen and Pakistan are coming here to attack us.

3. Current Director of the F.B.I., Robert Mueller is the longest standing Director since J. Edgar Hoover