Ali: The FBI director is presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed, but is not a member of the cabinet. The FBI is a ...

The FBI investigates everything from terrorist threats to cybercrime to public corruption. What does the presidentially ...

Javed Ali, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Mention the FBI, and many older Americans will likely think of a time when the agency was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who spent much of his nearly ...

Naomi Schalit: Let’s start with FBI 101. What does the agency do? Javed Ali: The FBI began as the country’s lead federal criminal investigative agency in 1909, then named the Bureau of Investigation, ...

Javed Ali: The FBI began as the country’s lead federal criminal investigative agency in 1909, then named the Bureau of Investigation, or BOI. Previously, organizations like the Secret Service an ...