FBI reforms are on the right track

The newly announced, radical reform of the FBI is a welcome and long overdue development that places the Bureau on the front lines of homeland security and defense.

FBI Director Robert Mueller is showing the right stuff as he welcomes, instead of resists, inside and outside criticism. He isn’t cannibalizing counterintelligence to support a strong anti-terrorist role, and he recognizes the need to go after terrorists and their supporters where they hide: in charitable organizations, in houses of worship, and among the politically well-connected.

Groups purporting to represent American Islamic interests are already complaining.

Mueller promises to change the FBI’s bureaucratic culture, beef up its analytical capability, and stand unafraid of the “civil liberties” forces and other critics – some of whom themselves are connected to extremist and terrorist groups – who fueled the climate of fear that forced the FBI to wait for a crime to occur before intervening against the bad guys.

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