内容摘要：“Our journalists went out and covered carefully and fairly a story of public importance, and the court recognized that the law is designed to protect just that sort of journalism,” Charlie Stadtlander said in an emailed statement.

“Our journalists went out and covered carefully and fairly a story of public importance, and the court recognized that the law is designed to protect just that sort of journalism,” Charlie Stadtlander said in an emailed statement.

James Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisor, said he would like to see more specific information about the new priorities but was heartened by an enhanced violent crime focus so long as other initiatives weren’t abandoned.“Mission priorities change,” Gagliano said. “The threat matrix changes. You’ve got to constantly get out in front of that.”

The Trump administration has touted several terrorism successes, including the arrests of a suspected participant inthat killed 13 American servicemembers and of an ex-Michigan National Guard member on charges ofon behalf of the Islamic State.

But the administration is also employing a broad definition of what it believes constitutes terrorism.FBI and Justice Department officials see the fight against transnational gangs as part of their counterterrorism mandate, taking advantage of the Trump administration’s designation of the violent street gangs MS-13 and Tren de Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations to bring terrorism-related charges against defendants, including a

of being a high-ranking TdA member and a Utah father-son suspected of providing material support to a Mexican cartel — a charge typically used for cases involving groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida.

A former Justice Department terrorism prosecutor, Patel has called the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces — interagency units in the bureau’s 55 field offices — as “shining examples” of its mission. Those task forces spent years pursuing suspects in the Capitol riot but have now been enlisted to track down cartel members, he has said.who crossed the U.S-Mexico border without parents in what officials say is an effort to ensure their safety. Field offices have been directed to commit manpower to immigration enforcement.

The Justice Department has instructed the FBI to review files for information about those illegally in the U.S. and provide it to the Department of Homeland Security unless doing so would compromise an investigation. And photos on the FBI’s Instagram account depict agents with covered faces and tactical gear alongside detained subjects, with a caption saying the FBI is “ramping up” efforts with immigration agents to locate “dangerous criminals.”“We’re giving you about five minutes to cooperate,” Bongino said on Fox News about illegal immigrants. “If you’re here illegally, five minutes, you’re out.”

That’s a rhetorical shift from prior leadership. Though Patel’s direct predecessor, Christopher Wray, warned about the flow of fentanyl through the southern border and the possibility migrants determined to commit terrorism, he did not characterize immigration enforcement as core to the FBI’s mission.