Not any more. It's just another local branch of these guys:
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Isn’t the FBI an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice?
Not any more. It's just another local branch of these guys:
There is some INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL DIVISION of the Justice Department which would be responsible, I don’t recall the precise name which Old Deck Hand provided days ago.
"....And, it's the DOJ, specifically the DOJ's Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs, that effects extradition from foreign countries, not the FBI, per se. This is the division that prepares the paperwork, submits the formal request and request provisional arrest for the suspect, if warranted.
Again, this is why Holder's fingerprints are all over this. While there are a lot of career DOJ lawyers in these offices, it's a political appointee that runs them. This is Obama's problem, all the way." <<<<<
82 posted on 06/05/2010 2:42:57 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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Yes, it absolutely is. The Director of the FBI (Mueller) reports directly the US Attorney General.
But, as a political matter, you will frequently see administrations blame the FBI when investigations go south, rather than the US Attorney's office (or DOJ), because the FBI is presumably insulated from politics. IOW, because the DOJ is run by political appointees (in DC and in the District offices) and the FBI is (frequently) run by a man appointed by a previous administration (as is this case) and has field offices run by people who are not political appointees, it gives the current administration cover to blame the FBI.
As a practical matter of federal law enforcement, when you have these kinds of international stings, operations that will eventually require extradition, you can bet that the local USA office was involved from the very beginning, as well as the DOJ's CD office of International Affairs, which is the office responsible for effecting international arrest and extradition.
Lastly, if they had problems getting an indictment, that's (most likely) not the fault of the FBI, but rather, the fault of the local USA, who of course is an Obama political appointee. Long story short, an Obama political appointee is who probably monkeyed this up, not the career FBI agents.