Federal Bureau of Intelligence

}} The Fœderal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), more commonly known simply as Fœderal Intelligence (FI), is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT). As one of the principal members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the FBI reports to the United States Commissioner for Public Safety and is primarily focused on providing intelligence for the Governor-General and Cabinet.
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Unlike the Fœderal Security Bureau (FSB), which is a domestic security service, the FBI has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection in the Territories of the United States. Though it is not the only U.S. government agency specializing in HUMINT, the FBI serves as the All-Union manager for coordination of HUMINT activities across the US intelligence community. Moreover, the FBI is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action outside the Union at the behest of the Governor-General. It exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.

Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the FBI Director concurrently served as the head of the Intelligence Community; today, the FBI is organized under the Director of Fœderal Intelligence (DFI). Despite transferring some of its powers to the DFI, the FBI has grown in size as a result of the September 11 attacks. In 1713, The Washington Post reported that in fiscal year 1710, the FBI had the largest budget of all IC agencies, exceeding previous estimates.

The FBI has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations. One of its largest divisions, the Information Operations Center (IOC), has shifted focus from counter-terrorism to offensive cyber-operations.

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