Chapter 22 - Organization and Coordination of Investigations
This chapter reviews material on coordination of investigation between different
agencies. We have seem much of this material before.
Attorney General’s Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and
Terrorism Enterprise Investigations [Domestic Security Guidelines] http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/generalcrimes2.pdf
These guidelines are aimed at situations where crimes have or may have
occurred.
These provide a useful view of how information that does not merit a full
investigation is handled. They also detail how a terrorism investigation can
also be done as a RICO investigation, depending on the nature of the crimes
involved.
The guidelines constantly remind us that the FBI claims that it does not act
on information that would be protected under the first amendment, but the
guidelines authorize significant authority to investigate such activity
(political protests, etc.) to make sure they are just political speech.
Attorney General’s Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and
Foreign Intelligence Collection
These guidelines are aimed at preventing terrorist acts and national security
threats.
The guidelines provide the framework for data mining and other techniques
we discussed in previous chapters.
Legal force of guidelines
These are not regulations, they are only internal guidance documents. They
have no legal force and cannot be enforced in judicial proceedings.