• To increase general awareness of the history of the FBI - encouraging both the understanding of how those in the FBI see themselves and their role in the agency as well as how others have viewed the FBI.
• To be a resource for students who wish to write school reports about the FBI.
• To encourage discussion about the legitimate role of the FBI in today's society and to explore the difficulties that arise from being asked to enforce laws that lack popular support (i.e. prohibition in the 20's and drug laws today).
• To offer an unofficial forum for those who wish to express something about their contact with the FBI.
• To explore the relationship between the FBI and the press and how media pressure relates to recent FBI blunders.
• To explore the relationship between the FBI, politicians and corporations. When politicians write laws that show little understanding of technology or are geared to the particular interests of certain corporations - how does this affect the legitimacy of agencies that are asked to enforce them?
• To explore issues related to technical and managerial competence within the agency.
• To explore how the culture of the agency affects what it does.

The general goal is to demystify the FBI and to shed light on both it's successes and failures. Our intention is to explore the past for the purpose of offering guidance to the present and future of the agency. We have no particular agenda as to how the agency should evolve other than that the agency needs to have as it's highest priority, legitimacy in the eyes of the American public and not be perceived primarily as an agency beholden to politicians, special interest groups or well connected corporations.

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What this site is not:

• An official source of information about the FBI.
• A good place to get information about FBI employment - we suggest contacting the FBI directly about this.

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