National Security Branch

Federal Bureau of Investigation
	Federal Bureau of Investigation
Common name	Federal Bureau of Investigation
Abbreviation	FBI
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agency information
Motto	Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
Agency overview
Formed	July 26, 1908 (103 years ago)
Employees	35,437 (May 31, 2011)
Annual budget	7.9 billion USD (2010)
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Federal agency; (Operations jurisdiction)	United States
Legal jurisdiction	As per operations jurisdiction.
Governing body	United States Department of Justice
Constituting instrument	United States Code Title 28 Part II Chapter 33
General nature	Federal law enforcement; Civilian agency;
Operational structure
Headquarters	J. Edgar Hoover Building, Washington, D.C.
Sworn members	13,963 (May 31, 2011)
Unsworn members	21,474 (May 31, 2011)
Agency executives	Robert S. Mueller III, Director; Timothy P. Murphy, Deputy Director; List of FBI Directors, Other directors;
Child agencies	FBI Academy; FBI Laboratory; Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS); Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG); Counterterrorism Division (CTD); FBI Police (FBIP);
Major units	5 Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU); Law Enforcement Bulletin Unit (LEBU); Hostage Rescue Team (FBI) (HRT); Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF); FBI Police; National Security Branch (NSB);
Field offices	56 (List of FBI Field Offices)
Notables
People	John Edgar Hoover, Director, for being the founding director; William Mark Felt, former Federal Agent, for whistle blowing, Watergate scandal; Joseph Leo Gormley, Forensic Scientist, for expert testimony;
Significant Operations	COINTELPRO; Special Intelligence Service;
	Website
	www.FBI.gov
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The National Security Branch (NSB) is the sub-service within the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that is responsible for counterterrorism, counterintelligence and intelligence. Headed by an Executive Assistant Director of the FBI, the NSB is responsible to the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI Director and the U.S. Attorney General. The NSB was formed by the unification of the FBI's FBI Counterterrorism Division, the Directorate of Intelligence and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate.

It is speculated that this will lead to the formation of "career paths" for FBI Special Agents; meaning that once a new agent has completed Special Agent Training at FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and has completed the mandatory probationary period, that he or she will choose to go into the National Security Branch, or go into the "Criminal" part of the Bureau and focus on crimes such as organized crime, narcotics, civil rights violations, fraud, and violent crime. Some advocates of this new program say that this re-organization will help the fight against terrorism by making it less bureaucratic.

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