Research Paper on:
Controlling the FBI

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during the last years of Hoovers reign because he was running the Bureau like his own pet police force, not accountable to anyone. Hoover had become so powerful for so  many years, that anyone who was an adult during his reign knows it was exactly that - a reign, he was king. But, what of the FBI today. This is  the time in modern history that our nation has needed the FBI and their exceptional skills more than in a long time. Of course, most people are completely unaware of  what the FBI does every day and how many terrorist crimes it has thwarted without any publicity at all. Ragavan, Kaplan and Pasternak reported that in 2001, the FBI  had a budget of $3.6 billion per year and it had 11,000 special agents (2001). The sheer size of the Bureau made any other police agency in the world look  like tiny organizations (Ragavan, Kaplan and Pasternak, 2001). Even with all the resources, fiscal and human, the Bureau has been going through one of the worst periods in the agencys  history and a good portion of the damage to this agency is from within the organization (Ragavan, Kaplan and Pasternak, 2001). If we look at some of the blunders, huge  blunders, this agency has committed over the last few years, we will understand why there needs to be more control over the organization. Consider these events: * The Bureau failed  to disclose over 4,000 pages of evidence in the Timothy McVeigh case (Ragavan, Kaplan and Pasternak, 2001). As we all know, it was subsequently determined even by McVeighs lawyers that  the substance of those documents would not have altered the conviction and sentencing. * Robert Hanssen, a long-time agent had been spying for the Russians for 15 years (Ragavan, Kaplan