Reply #26: FBI has been getting increasingly involved overseas

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I did a little research on this last winter. What I found out was that they never used to operate outside the US except on an occasional and temporary basis. But they established a permanent office in Afghanistan when the US invaded in 2001 -- it was the FBI that messed up the interrogation of John Walker Lindh. And since then, they've seemed to be regularly involved in overseas investigations of terrorism.

What I couldn't find out was the context of all this -- what its real scope is, under what authority it's being done, and what the FBI might be up to in other countries besides merely investigating specific incidents. I'd sure love to know more.