Briefs

The bureau's reorganization followed bruising revelations from field agents that their memos about suspicious enrollments of Middle Eastern men at flight-training schools and requests to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, were overlooked. Critics can't hold Mueller accountable for those intelligence failures-he became FBI director on Sept. 3. But he's the point man now.

To combat terrorism, the director says, the FBI will expand its use of data mining and financial-record and communication-analysis tools. He envisions the day when artificial-intelligence systems match data points to identify possible terrorist activity. In its March budget request, the bureau sought close to $70 million to consolidate its investigative data warehouses, develop a secure network to share data with other intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, and implement new analytical and visualization software.

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