By Ronald KesslerNewsmax
For FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, the biggest threat to the bureau was a movement to do away with the FBI’s counterterrorism effort and replace it with a new terror-fighting agency similar to the British MI5.
Such an agency would have investigative powers but none of the FBI’s law enforcement powers.
Former National Security Agency director William E. Odom, a retired general, first floated the idea back in 2002. In a later Washington Post op-ed headlined “Why the FBI Can’t Be Reformed,” Odom wrote that the bureau’s shortcomings in fighting the terrorist threat were systemic.
“No one can turn a law enforcement agency into an effective intelligence agency,” he said.
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