And under Attorney General John Ashxxxxx, the department was being prodded back into its old law-and-order mind-set: violent crime, drugs, child porn.
Counterterrorism, which had become a priority of the Clintonites, seemed to be getting less attention. When FBI officials sought to add hundreds more counterintelligence agents, they got shot down even as Ashxxxxx began, quietly, to take a privately chartered jet for his own security reasons.
The attorney general was hardly alone in seeming to de-emphasize terror in the young Bush administration. Over at the Pentagon, new Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld elected not to relaunch a Predator drone that had been tracking bin Laden, among other actions.
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