Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). Title 28, United States Code (U.S. Code), Section 533, which authorizes the Attorney General to "appoint officials to detect... crimes against the United States", and other federal statutes give the FBI the authority and responsibility to investigate specific crimes. At present, the FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes and thus has the broadest investigative authority of any federal law enforcement agency. The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has been used since 1949 to notify the public of wanted fugitives.

Further reading

• David Burnham, Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice, Scribner, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, LoC KF5107.B87 1996
• Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression, Updated Edition, The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, Boston: Southend Press 2002
• Frank J. Donner, The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System, Vintage, ISBN 0-194-74771-2, LoC JK468.I6D65 1981
• Ronald Kessler, The FBI, Pocket Books, 1993, ISBN 0-671-78658-X.
• Ronald Kessler, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, St. Martin's Press 2002 ISBN 0-312-30402-1
• Athan G. Theohris, The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History, University Press of Kansas 2004
• Watters and Gillers (eds), Investigating the FBI, Ballentine, 1973, ISBN 345-23831-1-195