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Starting with the Feds man!

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the lead federal law enforcement organization within the United States. It is part of the Department of Justice, but also an independent member of the intelligence community. The FBI investigates serious crimes that cross state lines, espionage, and especially counterterrorism, which accounts for more than half of the its budget. The Bureau employs some of the best-trained and best equipped officers in the country. Its agents frequently coordinate with other law enforcement bodies, domestically and abroad, and operate in diverse teams.
BUDGET: Over $8 billion in 2015.
POWERS OF ARREST? Yes.
EXPECTED TO CARRY A WEAPON? Yes.
ACCESS TO OFFICIAL FUNDS? Can be supplied with a credit line if traveling or on an investigation, up to a Standard expense without eliciting an official review.
OPERATIONAL BUDGET/RESTRICTED ITEMS? Agents from the FBI may use Bureaucracy to access criminal files from any federal agency, including those tied to national security. This is equivalent to a Standard expense. This rarely elicits official review (see COMPLICATIONS on page 87), unless done repeatedly for individuals the Agent clearly has no reason to investigate.
The Organization
The FBI is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and its Director reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.
The FBI operates field offices in most major cities throughout the United States. The FBI provides law enforcement on many Native American reservations, alongside the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal authorities.
Each field office and major operation is headed by a Special Agent in Charge (SAC), who generally answers directly to the Director. Each SAC is in charge of FBI agents and analysts from many divisions and branches. Assistant Special Agents in Charge (ASACs) lead subdivisions and answer to the SAC.
The FBI maintains a presence abroad through liaisons with friendly law enforcement organizations and through the legal attaché (Legat) program. The FBI bases legal attachés and advisors in American embassies, and occasionally embeds them within friendly foreign law enforcement offices to support specific investigations.
Key FBI Branches
• Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services
• Intelligence
• National Security
• Hostage Rescue Team
• Science and Technology
Operatives
FBI agents must have college degrees—most have graduate degrees—and must pass rigorous psycho-logical and physical screenings. Many new FBI agents are longtime veterans of law enforcement at the local or federal level. Qualification for the FBI is extremely difficult, and the months-long training regimen has a high washout rate. Most FBI employees and all special agents must qualify for and hold a Top Secret clearance because of the sensitive nature of their work. Special agents and many support staff must pass a polygraph and a background investigation.
Training at the FBI Training Academy (Quantico, Virgina) involves firearms, tactical vehicle operation, law, case exercises, surveillance techniques, defensive tactics, and other operational skills. (Counterintelligence training is reserved for experienced special agents, who are then usually detailed to partner agencies in the intelligence community.)
Agents who join the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) or field-office SWAT teams are often former military, frequently from the 75th Ranger Regiment. HRT agents receive intensive training on par with military special operations.
Besides special agents, the FBI employs specialized support personnel including intelligence analysts, language specialists, forensic scientists, and behavioral/psychoanalytic experts.
Authority and Mandate
The FBI investigates corruption, civil rights violations, organized crime, crimes committed across state lines, threats to national security, espionage, and terrorism. FBI agents are expected to support local authorities and officials from other agencies, who may have been first to investigate. But if the FBI has jurisdiction, the FBI usually takes the lead.
FBI agents are typically deployed when local law police ask for assistance or report a federal crime. In many cases, the FBI builds its own federal case and gathers its own evidence even when local law enforcement investigates the same suspect for local crimes. If the FBI feels local law enforcement may get in the way, the agency can petition the Attorney General’s office to contact local law enforcement and assert the FBI’s lead on the case. These orders often requires the local law enforcement body to turn over its evidence and support the FBI.
Overseas, the FBI works with local law enforcement officers who have authority to enforce local laws. The FBI is interested in foreign crime only insofar as it is connected to criminal activity in the U.S. But this allows a far reach. Drug, terrorism, and financial prosecutions often require the FBI to conduct investigations abroad.
Field Operations
FBI agents are typically sent into the field alone or in two-agent teams. Single agents on assignment are quite common, especially if local authorities are cooperative. The FBI sends more than two agents into the field only for a particularly high-profile, complex, dangerous, or geographically remote case.
FBI agents in the field receive support from local FBI field offices, including desk space, access to computers that are already integrated with the FBI computer system, vehicles (including armored SUVs if necessary), and small arms and body armor.
In tactical situations, the FBI typically arms special agents with shotguns. Assault rifles may be requested from the field office’s armory. Such heavily armed FBI agents may be supported by the field office’s SWAT team.
An FBI SWAT team includes a leader, Containment Teams (usually four members each), Emergency Response Teams (usually three but up to seven members), and up to three Deliberate Action Teams (at least four members each), as well as at least one Rifle/Sniper Team (two members). FBI SWAT teams and the Hostage Rescue Team occasionally work with special operations units overseas as battlefield interrogators, or to provide arrest authority and correct procedures when the military captures targets for prosecution.
In rare cases, the FBI approves undercover criminal operations, usually in the case of corruption or crimes that pose serious danger to a community. These operations are staffed by seasoned agents and are generally well funded. The undercover agent is provided a new identity and rents or purchases a home, vehicle, and the accoutrements of life to maintain the cover. Such operations are approved for a finite amount of time, often six months, and then are subject to review of the effectiveness and safety of the operation. Accounting for undercover operations is never as strict as it should be. An FBI agent on an undercover assignment often has autonomy, funds, and a distinct lack of oversight.
FBI operations are compartmentalized. Agents don’t ask each other what they’re working on. If you need to know, you’ll be told.
Areas of Friction
When assisting a local case, the FBI doesn’t usually try to take control. Many FBI agents see themselves as helpful “force multipliers” for local authorities, bringing assets to the investigation that would not normally be available. Most FBI agents are willing to play a support role if the locals are making progress. Only if the investigation stalls is an FBI team likely to take over.
When the FBI inserts an agent into an ongoing investigation, or takes over a local case because strong federal interests are at stake, it often rubs other law enforcement agencies the wrong way. If a crime is high-profile, local officials may not want the FBI to take over and take credit. In that situation an agent can usually expect animosity from local law enforcement, and in some cases outright hostility or obstructionism. Part of an FBI agent’s job is to manage relations with the local police. High Law and Bureaucracy skills can help an FBI agent justify the Bureau’s involvement to the locals’ satisfaction, and a good attitude (or high CHA) can help smooth things over.
Playing the Bureau
As an FBI agent, you are probably a detail-oriented perfectionist. Process is important to everyone in the FBI. Results matter, too, but process leads to results, so get the process right. FBI agents and specialists are taught to take each case in distinct steps, with close attention to detail at each phase. Good process means a case is less likely to be thrown out of court on a technicality. Even kinetic operations like thwarting a hostage taking focuses on getting the little details right.
The FBI specializes in high-profile and time-sensitive cases, and anticipates that each of their investigation is going to come under scrutiny. An FBI agent’s supervisors will be the first to assess the operation, looking for missteps.
There is also the media and Congress to think about. Trouble on an FBI case means increased attention from local contacts, the media, and politicians. Politicians are always looking for local votes; be respectful and tread lightly when a Congressperson or Senator’s name is invoked. There are few ways to get yanked off a case faster than angering a member of Congress.
Working for the FBI is intense and stressful. The organization’s responsibilities are expansive. Even with numerous personnel and a large budget, the Bureau can’t cover everything. FBI agents and employees are expected to be personable. The need to work with local authorities and other federal agencies on com-plex topics and investigations means you know how to work with a wide variety of people. Even under pressure you know how to keep your cool, whether in a gunfight or in dealing with a local who just compromised your evidence. Antisocial and belligerent FBI agents don’t normally do well.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
The Drug Enforcement Administration interdicts ille-gal drugs domestically and abroad. The War on Terror has highlighted the nexus between the illegal drug trade and terrorism, and the DEA increasingly count-ers the business side of terrorism. The DEA coordi-nates other agencies that participate in U.S- sponsored drug investigations. It often works closely with the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but the DEA retains the lead on all investigations and direct actions that focus on illegal drugs. The DEA is staffed by experienced, tough-minded law enforce-ment personnel. DEA special agents are active in every corner of the United States and in more than 60 other countries.
BUDGET: Approximately $2 billion in 2015.
POWERS OF ARREST? Yes.
EXPECTED TO CARRY A WEAPON? Yes.
ACCESS TO OFFICIAL FUNDS? Can be supplied with a significant credit line, up to a Major Expense without eliciting an official review.
OPERATIONAL BUDGET/RESTRICTED ITEMS? With the Bureaucracy skill, an Agent from the DEA may check out confiscated evidence from previous drug busts, os-tensibly for examination or comparison with evidence from another case.
Checking out a weapon connected to an existing case is equivalent to an Unusual expense. A more ex-pensive or particularly rare item, such as an impound-ed vehicle once owned by a drug cartel, is equivalent to a Major expense.
Checking out evidence associated with a case the Agent is not involved with automatically triggers official review unless the Agent takes steps to hide his or her identity when removing the items. Hiding the Agent’s identity requires a Criminology roll; if it fumbles, the Agent is caught and faces possible firing and prosecution.
The Organization
The DEA is part of the Department of Justice and is headed by the Administrator of Drug Enforcement. The Administrator reports to the Deputy Attorney General. The DEA is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The DEA Training Academy is located at Quantico, Virginia, along with a Marine Corps basic training facility and the FBI Training Academy. Across the United States, the DEA maintains 21 domestic field divisions with more than 200 field offices. It maintains offices in over 60 countries. The DEA employs over 10,000 people, including over 5,000 special agents and 800 intelligence analysts.
The Operations Division houses the special agents. The Operational Support Division supports the other divisions with specialized skill sets and equipment—including forensic experts in computers, fingerprints, and chemistry. The Intelligence Division employs primarily electronic and signals analysts. Field Divisions are de facto field offices and are the base of operations for most investigations outside of Washington D.C.
The DEA fields two specialized sections, the paramilitary Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams (FASTs) and the Special Operations Division
(SOD). FASTs focus on direct action and cooperating with military units in combat environments. The SOD is based in the U.S. and focuses on electronic surveillance like wiretaps and data mining.
The DEA operates a small Aviation Division which is based in Fort Worth, Texas, but available throughout the United States (and, with permission from the local government, overseas). The Aviation Division uses helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for surveillance, photographic reconnaissance, and transportation of prisoners, cargo, and personnel.
One of the core responsibilities of the DEA is to authorize medical professionals, re-searchers, and manufacturers to access controlled substances like drugs and narcotics.
Key Divisions
• Operations: Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams, › Field offices
• Operational Support
• Intelligence
• Special Operations
• Aviation
Operatives
DEA special agents go through five months of training at the DEA Training Academy in Quantico, Virgin-ia. Much of the training focuses on field operations, physical competency, and tactical/weapons management. Special agents and many support staff must pass a polygraph and a background investigation. The DEA does not accept agents who have a history of illegal drug use.
DEA special agents are expected to deal with the public routinely, and must be personable to do their job effectively.
More so than other law enforcement agencies, the DEA expects to put its special agents in harm’s way. Their quarry is well-funded and well-equipped by the billions of dollars available through narcotrafficking. The DEA demands some of the highest firearms qualifications standards of any federal agency. Agents may carry their personal firearms rather than the standard issue sidearm.
To support investigations, the DEA employs diverse specialists including forensic accountants, lawyers, pharmacists, chemists, lab technicians, software analysts, data cryptographers, engineers, machinists, translators, mechanics, and office support staff.
Authority and Mandate
The DEA enforces the Controlled Substances Act throughout the U.S. The nature of drug trafficking means that the DEA is often as focused abroad as it is domestically, particularly on Mexico and Latin America.
The nexus between the illegal drug trade and terrorism has brought increased funding to the DEA, but has also driven an expansion of their responsibilities around the world. Southeast and Central Asia and the poppy/heroin trade is also of particular concern. The DEA has agents permanently based in Afghanistan to coordinate with the military in interdicting and destroying Afghan-manufactured heroin.
Field Operations
The DEA prefers to send agents in teams. During arrests, the DEA seeks to send at least three armed personnel, preferably DEA agents. If the numbers are unavailable, the DEA requests support from local po-lice officers or other federal special agents (especially the U.S. Marshals Service).
The DEA is well funded for its size. The com-bination of a robust budget, transportation assets (automobiles and aircraft), and the need to be on the ground to conduct investigations means the DEA allows agents to operate independently. Its budget also means that agents have access to reasonable credit lines.
The DEA’s many field offices in the U.S. and overseas mean agents do not have to travel far to requisition equipment. Many field offices have robust armories and armored SUVs. Communications and surveillance equipment is readily available, though getting the correct search warrant to use most surveillance devices can take weeks. Electronics such as laptops, smartphones, and tablet PCs are available upon request. Should an agent need more than that, the office serves as the destination point for more sophisticated or expensive equipment sent from HQ. The DEA’s aerial assets are largely focused on intelligence and surveillance. In a major operation they may be placed at the disposal of the agent in charge.
The DEA operates about 260 drug task forces that integrate with city, county, and state law enforcement organizations in every large American city, deputizing local law-enforcement officers. These deputizations are not case-specific and often last months or years. They grant broader authority to local law enforcement personnel than other deputization processes.
DEA undercover operations, while prestigious and dangerous, rarely last longer than four months. Years-long deep undercover operations are a myth. The DEA only sends its best and most mentally capable agents into undercover situations. Because agents must operate without the support of a team, undercover operations are seen as particularly dangerous, and are only approved in major investigations. An undercover agent leaving a mission is usually sent away on a temporary duty assignment or transferred to another field office for the agent’s safety.
Areas of Friction
The DEA operates in the grey area between local and state-level law enforcement and the more D.C.-focused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and FBI, serving as an imperfect bridge between the groups. DEA agents need to be friendly with all levels of law enforcement but often remain “outsiders” to everyone. FBI agents, ICE agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals often see the DEA as too eager to use force. The most frequent exception is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which shares a similar spot in the law enforcement hierarchy and a similar mandate. DEA and the ATF agents often work well together. Local law enforcement often appreciates the DEA’s assistance on major drug cases, but inevitably wants to ensure they get credit for the bust.
Playing the DEA
Your life is paperwork and street investigations. You didn’t join the DEA because it is glamorous; you joined because you wanted to work as a special agent and get your hands dirty. The DEA sends you into the darkest parts of American society to corner the bad guy and arrest him. That’s the great part. You work with other good agents and have a very clear mission to stop the flow of drugs. The downside is the paper-work. It’s unavoidable, and the government demands to know all the whens, wheres, and whys of your investigations. You hate the paperwork.
The DEA’s focused mission translates into pride in your work. Your agency is no-nonsense. There is a mission. Go do it. Be professional. You likely come from a law enforcement background, possibly working for a local police department or sheriff’s office. What the DEA offers you that you couldn’t get elsewhere is a better paycheck, better equipment, better training, and better cases.
With pride in your work comes a bit of disdain for partner agencies. The worst, in your opinion, is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). DEA agents consider themselves better trained and better disciplined in the field than ICE agents. The joke goes that DEA agents deal with paperwork because they want to get back out in the field, while ICE uses fieldwork to make better excuses for paperwork. But you have to grit your teeth and work with ICE to make sure the operation is successful. Your other sister organization, the FBI, is more professional and more highly trained, but still doesn’t quite “get” it.
Your office is often in the worst part of a city, and you always need to be aware of your surroundings and people’s motivations. Your adversaries range from local methamphetamine manufacturers to Central American drug kingpins to terrorist cells using narcotics to fund their goals. Thing is, they aren’t always your enemies. Many of them are useful contacts, even allies. The common denominator is not just the involvement of illegal drugs, but the huge amount of money at stake. Your suspects and contacts are well-funded and well-armed. You have to be a cut above the bad guys, otherwise you will find yourself outgunned or isolated. You also have to be willing to make a deal with the small guy in order to target more important criminals in the supply chain. The line between ally and adversary is razor thin.
You have to be a team player. Suspects are best neutralized with swift and decisive action by an overwhelming number of officers. This is why staying friendly with ICE and the FBI is so important. When the time comes to take someone down, you want people on your team.
Information is power. Takedowns and arrests are only the final stage of an investigation. Until then, it’s a deliberate process of working informants, conducting interviews, and gathering technical or electronic data. The people whose information you need—weed farmers, truckers, prostitutes, wary family members—often distrust authority. Gaining their trust requires patience, time, and sometimes money. Even local law enforcement is often skeptical of your motivations, but you usually get along with the locals after a beer or two.
You have to keep thorough notes and good files, and have a good memory so that sensitive information stays accurate even when you don’t have the time or privacy to record your findings.