The FBI stands for Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Federal” refers to the national government of the United States. “Bureau” is another word for the department or division of government. “Investigation” is what we do—gathering facts and evidence to solve and prevent crimes.
The FBI is an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities. It is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice and a full member of the U.S. Intelligence Community.
The FBI’s main goal is to protect and defend the United States, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection.
Although the bureau investigates crimes committed outside the United States against U.S. citizens and U.S. interests (such as embassies), it may arrest individuals on foreign soil only in cases where the U.S. Congress has granted it jurisdiction and where the host country consents.
Due to “concurrent jurisdiction,” state and local law enforcement agencies are not subordinate to the FBI, and the FBI does not supervise or take over their investigations. Instead, the investigative resources of the FBI and state and local agencies are often pooled in a common effort to investigate and solve the cases. In fact, many task forces composed of FBI agents and state and local officers have been formed to locate fugitives and to address serious threats like terrorism and street violence. The FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes such as counter-terrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization.
The FBI has divided its investigations into several programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, cybercrime, public corruption, civil rights, organized crime/drugs, white-collar crime, violent crimes and major offenders, and applicant matters. The FBI’s investigative philosophy emphasizes close relations and information sharing with other federal, state, local, and international law enforcement and intelligence agencies. A significant number of FBI investigations are conducted in concert with other law enforcement agencies or as part of joint task forces.
POLITICIANS
In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for Watergate–burglary, wiretapping, Vietnam War illegal espionage, and hush money. This act began the slippery slope of no punishment for wrongdoing. The FBI does not persecute sitting presidents for misnomers and felonies.
Ethics is about concepts of right and wrong behavior. Some actions may be legal but in some people’s opinion not ethical.
ETHICS AND THE LAW
Legal and ethical standards are based on laws and ideas that everyone in a given society understands. They dictate a standard of conduct that represents going beyond doing the legally right thing to acting morally right.
Morality and the law as social institutions, we see that violating moral rules affords one shame, and violating legal rules affords one fine or jail. The law, unlike morality, has the enforcement power of the state behind it. Those who act immorally may earn the scorn of others, for example, but suffer no such state punishment unless they are acting illegally. (Some religious traditions, however, hold that immoral individuals may be punished by God in their earthly life or the afterlife.)
What are ethical laws?
Legal ethics is a term used to describe a code of conduct governing proper professional behavior, which establishes the nature of obligations owed to individuals and society.
What are the 4 ethical laws?
The Fundamental Principles of Ethics. Beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice constitute the 4 principles of ethics.
Autonomy is the principle that addresses the concept of independence. The essence of this principle is allowing an individual the freedom of choice and action.
Nonmaleficence is the concept of not causing harm to others. Often explained as “above all do not harm.” This principle reflects both
the idea of not inflicting intentional harm, and not engaging in actions that risk
harming others (Forester-Miller & Rubenstein, 1992).
Beneficence reflects the counselor’s responsibility to contribute to the welfare of the client. Simply stated it means to do good, to be proactive, and also to prevent harm when possible (Forester-Miller & Rubenstein, 1992).
Justice is a principle with four components: distributive justice; respect for the law; rights and retributive justice. Distributive justice is concerned with the equitable allocation of resources; the second refers to whether the fact that an act is or is not against the law, is of moral relevance; rights are considered to be special advantages with correlative duties to provide them; retributive justice refers to making right when a wrong has been perpetrated.
In addition, we have these duties:
Fidelity refers to meeting the patient‟s reasonable expectations regarding respect, and competence, subscribing to a professional code of conduct, and following policies and procedures honoring agreements made between clinician and patient.
Truth-telling relates to the disclosure of information in a respectful and compassionate
way.
