During the last ten years, FBI transformation and second microlocalization have been used by several authors to solve different problems in the theory of linear or nonlinear partial differential equations. The aim of this book is to give an introduction to these topics, in the spirit of the work ofSj strand, and to present their recent application to the propagation of conormal singularities for solutions of seminlinear hyperbolic equations, due to Lebeau. The text is quite self-contained and provides a useful entry to the subject and a bridging link to more specialized papers.

FBI Transformation: FBI Continues to Make Progress in Its Efforts to Transform and Address Priorities

Testimony of David Walker, Comp. Gen. of the U.S. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI needed to refocus its efforts to investigate those attacks and to detect and prevent possible future attacks. To do this the FBI has taken steps to change its priorities and sought to transform itself to more effectively address the potential terrorist threats. This testimony addresses the FBI's: progress in updating its strategic plan; develop. of a strategic human capital plan; realign. of staff resources to priority areas; reallocation of staff resources from its drug prog.; efforts to recruit and hire new personnel to address critical staffing needs; efforts to enhance its training prog.; and implementation of new invest. authorities and to help protect individual civil liberties.

Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government, into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen. German shows how FBI leaders exploited the fear of terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 to shed the legal constraints imposed on them in the 1970s in the wake of Hoover-era civil rights abuses. Empowered by the Patriot Act and new investigative guidelines, the bureau resurrected a discredited theory of terrorist “radicalization” and adopted a “disruption strategy” that targeted Muslims, foreigners, and communities of color, and tarred dissidents inside and outside the bureau as security threats, dividing American communities against one another. By prioritizing its national security missions over its law enforcement mission, the FBI undermined public confidence in justice and the rule of law. Its failure to include racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic violence committed by white nationalists within its counterterrorism mandate only increased the perception that the FBI was protecting the powerful at the expense of the powerless. Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide is an engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI and a bold call for reform, told by a longtime counterterrorism undercover agent who has become a widely admired whistleblower and a critic for civil liberties and accountable government.