Kenneth Prewitt, the director of the bureau, wants to keep his job in the new administration, and has compared the possibility of his removal to firing the head of NASA in the middle of a moon launch.
The unemployment rate for college-educated young adults, 5.5 percent, is nearly double what it was on the eve of the Great Recession, in 2007, and the highest level — by almost two percentage points — since the bureau started to keep records in 1994 for those with at least four years of college.
According to FBI veterans, the bureau is permitted to keep sheafs of data on people it interviews even after it discounts them as a security or public-safety risk.
In F.B.I. offices in Detroit, Newark, Los Angeles and other cities with large Arab-American and Muslim populations, officials say, the bureau is struggling to keep up with the mountain of tapes, transcripts and photographs from the surveillance.
An FBI agent named Donald J. McGorty, who is in charge of Sino/Satellite Foreign CounterintelligenceNthat category accounts for every country except the Soviet UnionNtold the Times some of the ways in which the bureau has managed to keep people from spying on us.
The FBI first became interested in Tom and his fellow travelers on the eve of the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, when the bureau that purports to keep America safe sent an undercover agent who went by the name "Karen Sullivan" to infiltrate the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, one of the most prominent groups organizing protests outside the convention.
The staff of the Queens Topographical Bureau, a little-known piece of the borough president's office, tries to keep such anomalies to a minimum.
While the creditors and credit bureaus try their hardest to keep your credit history accurate, it's up to you to make sure there are no mistakes in your files and to take every step you can to maximize credit points.
The bureau, meanwhile, will have plenty to keep it busy.
