Mission
To protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
Motto
Fidelity
Bravery
Integrity
Priorities
- Protect the United States from terrorist attacks.
- Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage.
- Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes.
- Combat public corruption at all levels.
- Protect civil rights.
- Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises.
- Combat major white collar crimes.
- Combat significant violent crime.
- Support federal, state, local and international partners.
- Upgrade technology to successfully perform the FBI’s mission.
Core Values
- Rigorous obedience to the Constitution of the United States.
- Respect for the dignity of all those we protect.
- Compassion.
- Fairness.
- Uncompromising personal integrity and institutional integrity.
- Accountability by accepting responsibility for our actions and decisions.
- Leadership, both personal and professional.
Special Agents are responsible for:
- Conducting sensitive national security investigations and for enforcing over 300 federal statues.
FBI Special Agents work on matters including:
- Terrorism
- Counterintelligence
- Cyber crimes
- Organized crime
- White-collar crime
- Public corruption
- Civil rights violations
- Financial crimes
- Bribery
- Bank robbery
- Extortion
- Kidnapping
- Air piracy
- Interstate criminal investigation
- Fugitive and drug-trafficking matters
FBI Director
James Comey
Director of Intelligence
James R. Clapper
Attorney General
Eric Holder
Incoming: Loretta Lynch
Chief Justice
John Glover Roberts
White House Chief of Staff
Denis McDonough
House Majority Leader
Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy (Rep.)
Majority Whip: Steve Scalise (Rep.)
House Minority Leader
Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi (Dem.)
Minority Whip: Steny Hoyer (Dem.)
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Star-Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Speaker of the House
John Boehner
Terrorism
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
