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What We Investigate

What We Investigate

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Terrorism

Terrorism

To counter terrorism, the FBI's top investigative priority, we use our investigative and intelligence capabilities to neutralize domestic extremists and help dismantle terrorist networks worldwide.

Cyber Crime

Cyber Crime

The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating cyber attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists. The threat is incredibly serious—and growing.

Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence

The FBI is the lead agency for exposing, preventing, and investigating intelligence activities, including espionage, in the U.S.


Civil Rights

Civil Rights

The FBI, the lead agency for enforcing civil rights law, aggressively investigates hate crime, color of law abuses by public officials, human trafficking and involuntary servitude, and freedom of access to clinic entrances violations.

Public Corruption

Public Corruption

Public corruption is the FBI’s top criminal investigative priority, that includes border corruption, election crimes, international corruption and prison corruption.

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate investigates and works to prevent incidents involving nuclear, radiological, biological, or chemical weapons.

Organized Crime

Organized Crime

The FBI is dedicated to eliminating transnational organized crime groups that pose the greatest threat to the national and economic security of the United States.

Violent Crime

Violent Crime

The FBI, with its law enforcement partners, plays a key role in combating violent crime involving gangs, crimes…

White-Collar Crime

White-Collar Crime

These crimes are not violent, but they are not victimless. White-collar crimes can destroy a company, wipe out a person's life savings, cost investors billions of dollars, and erode the public's trust in institutions.

How We Investigate

How We Investigate

Whether it's the hostage rescue team or the latest intelligence, FBI personnel have a variety of tools and tactics in their investigative toolboxes to keep the public safe.

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