Advertising revenue hit record highs; foreign bureaus expanded to nearly a dozen from one in 1986.
He set up an office of intelligence within the bureau and expanded the intelligence capabilities of its 56 field offices.
The Bloomberg News bureau has expanded in recent years, and a few Internet sources, like Politico, are still expanding, but the number of journalists added is a fraction of the number lost.
But under prodding by the Clinton administration, the bureau greatly expanded its efforts to trace the origin of guns used in crimes, and it came up with a surprising discovery.
Vecchione still heads the Rackets Bureau, which expanded three years ago to include a sex trafficking unit.
As the networks shrank their overseas bureaus, CNN expanded.
Mr. Mueller's selection ended a search that began in May when Louis J. Freeh announced he was stepping down after serving eight years of his 10-year term as the head of the bureau, an expanding law enforcement agency with a $3.4 billion annual budget and nearly 30,000 employees, including about 11,000 agents.
Later tonight, government officials said that the bureau was expanding its search.
To cope with the influx, the bureau is expanding its centres in the northern Jaffna peninsula and Welikanda in the east.
The FBI has made "measurable progress" in keeping the U.S. homeland safe since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but the bureau should expand its intelligence-gathering efforts to match an ever-changing threat from abroad and so-called lone wolves in this country, a special review commission said Wednesday.
For many, neither The Advocate's New Orleans bureau nor any expanded Web presence can replace the institution that was the daily Times-Picayune.
