National Security Service (United States)
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The National Security Service (NSS) is to be an office within the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation that will consolidate the bureau's counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and intelligence duties. Headed by an Executive Assistant Director, it will absorb the FBI's Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Directorate of Intelligence and will be under the authority of Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. It is speculated that this will lead to the formation of "career paths" for FBI Special Agents; meaning that once a new agent has completed Special Agent Training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and has completed the mandatory probationary period, that he or she will choose to go into the National Security Service, or go into the "Criminal" part of the Bureau and focus on crimes such as organized crime, narcotics, civil rights violations, fraud, and violent crime. Some advocates of this new program say that this re-organization will help the fight against terrorism by making it less bureaucratic. External links
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