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Department of Justice FY 2008 Budget

Request
President’s Request Supports Department’s Critical Counterterrorism and
Intelligence Efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today announced

that the President’s FY 2008 budget proposal for the Department of Justice (DOJ) is
$21.8 billion in discretionary funding. The President’s overall FY 2008 budget
requests $227 million in program increases and directed state and local assistance
for counterterrorism and intelligence programs, reflecting the Department of
Justice’s continued and expanding focus on national security and the prevention of
terrorist attacks.

“For those of us at the Department of Justice, every day is September 12th, and
every day requires a sustained commitment to combating terrorism and protecting
our homeland,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. “The resources
requested in this year’s budget represent the Department of Justice’s commitment to
protecting our nation’s security on many fronts. We have made important strides in
identifying and prosecuting suspected terrorists, safeguarding children against
Internet predators, and protecting communities from the havoc of drugs and gun
crime. This budget will robustly support our most efficient, effective and essential
programs and functions.”

Since 9/11, the Department has broadened its investigative and prosecutorial
mission, and the FY 2008 budget request is aligned with the Department’s major
priorities. These priorities and the requested FY 2008 program increases are:

Preventing and Combating Terrorism $227 million

Preventing Violent Crime $214 million
Drugs and Border Security $89 million
Crimes Against Children and Obscenity $25 million
Judicial System Support and Incarceration $152 million
 Enforcing Federal Laws in the Courts $33 million
Management and Information Technology $75 million

Further, the FY 2008 budget includes a total program level of $1.234 billion for
state and local assistance.

PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY PREVENTING TERRORIST

ACTS

Preventing, investigating and prosecuting terrorist acts is the Department of

Justice’s top priority. The budget request reflects the Department’s commitment to
identifying, tracking and dismantling terrorist cells in the U.S. and overseas by
bolstering counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities and by improving
coordination of national security functions. Since the passage of the Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Department has enhanced its
counterterrorism and intelligence capabilities through improvements to its
infrastructure and innovative program changes. The FY 2008 budget builds on these
initiatives by providing funding for the FBI’s national security field investigations,
and its recently-created Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate and National
Security Branch. Additionally, the budget recognizes the FBI’s critical need for
modernized technical capabilities, and it provides for information technology and
forensic investigative and analytical improvements. The FY 2008 budget also
includes funding to institute two additional offices within DOJ’s new National
Security Division to formalize and enhance the Division’s crisis management and
policy and legal analysis capacities, and provides resources for operations and
oversight of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) processes. In total, the
budget provides $231 million in program increases, including the following:

National Security Division

The National Security Division’s total budget request for FY 2008 is $78 million
including $6.6 million in program increases such as:

FISA Operations and Intelligence Oversight: $3.1 million to address the

volume and intensity of FISA processing and related workload that has
increased substantially over the past five years.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Since FY 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s total budget has doubled. For
FY 2008, the FBI’s total budget is $6.431 billion, including 231 new
counterterrorism and intelligence agents and $217 million in program increases such
as:

National Security: $40.3 million to support field activities dedicated to

 national security investigations

National Security Branch Analytic Capabilities: $11.9 million to support the

FBI’s National Security Branch components in the detection, identification
and tracking of individuals or entities that pose threats to the United States
and its interests.

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Directorate: $18.9 million to expand

the newly established WMD Directorate and to continue forging strategic
partnerships in preparation for cohesive response to a WMD event.

Computer Analysis Response Teams: $22.8 million to develop new technical

capabilities and to provide digital forensic support to the FBI, intelligence
organizations, and other law enforcement agencies involved in digital
evidence collection and analysis.

Render Safe Mission: $11 million to addresses the White House directive
giving the FBI the mission to respond to devices involving WMD within the
United States and its territories.

Data Intercept and Access Program: $37.8 million to address the demand for
secure interception of data from public and private networks.

National Virtual Translation Center: $3.5 million to provide translation

services at the Intelligence Community Linguistic Exploitation Program.

PREVENTING VIOLENT CRIME

Violent gun crime and weapons trafficking continue to be significant law

enforcement problems throughout the nation, and the Department of Justice remains
invested in pursuing violent offenders and reclaiming communities from the scourge
of gangs and gun crime. The Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) initiative,
announced by the President and the Attorney General in 2001, is a comprehensive
strategy that brings together multiple agencies to reduce gun crime in our
communities. The initiative aims to improve the coordination and communication
between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to enhance each
agency’s capability to prevent and prosecute violent crime. The FY 2008 budget
request includes funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms &
Explosives’ (ATF) Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative and its Firearms
Tracking Teams, as well as funding for the United States Attorneys’ aggressive
prosecution of gang members. The budget also supports the newly-launched
GangTECC, an Administration program designed to work with the National Gang
Intelligence Center to coordinate the Department’s anti-gang strategy among its
components. In total, the budget provides $214 million to address violent crime,
including the following:
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF)

Firearms Trafficking Teams: $6.3 million to expand domestic firearms

trafficking enforcement efforts nationwide and to establish additional firearms
trafficking investigative teams in areas with the highest levels of illegal
firearms trafficking.

Project Safe Neighborhoods/Firearms Violence Reduction Initiative: $2.2

million to support PSN through increased gang and firearms enforcement
efforts, and additional training for Assistant U.S. Attorneys, district attorneys,
and state and local enforcement partners.

Gang Targeting Enforcement Coordination Center (GangTECC)

GangTECC is a 2006 initiative that unites federal gang disruption efforts by

streamlining resources and communication, developing a refined
understanding of the national gang problem and proposing appropriate
countermeasure strategies, and supporting the National Gang Intelligence
Center. The FY 2008 budget provides $0.694 million and 4 positions for this
initiative.

U.S. Attorneys

Gang Prosecution Initiative: $4.1 million to support the Attorney General’s

efforts to combat gang violence and reduce crime by providing additional
prosecutorial resources.

DRUGS AND BORDER SECURITY

In March 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft announced a comprehensive six-part

drug enforcement strategy for DOJ. This strategy uses the combined talent and
expertise of all federal law enforcement agencies to identify and target the most
significant drug supply organizations. The
FY 2008 President’s budget recognizes the nexus between drug control and national
security by supporting intelligence sharing between the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) and key counterterrorism partners. Additionally, the FY 2008
budget provides funding to expand investigative and prosecutorial efforts by several
DOJ components along the Southwest border, in support of the Administration’s
focus on border security and targeted enforcement. In total, the budget provides $89
million in program increases, including the following:

Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement/Organized Crime and Drug

Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)

Intelligence Sharing - OCDETF Fusion Center: $8.6 million for operation and
maintenance.
Drug Enforcement Administration

Southwest Border & Methamphetamine Enforcement: $29.2 million to attack

poly-drug trafficking organizations crossing the Southwest Border by
increasing DEA's intelligence gathering, detection, monitoring, and
surveillance capabilities.

Counterterrorism & Intelligence Sharing: $7.1 million to improve information

sharing with the Intelligence Community by modernizing DEA’s classified
information technology system.

U.S. Attorneys

Border and Immigration Prosecution Initiative: $7.4 million to respond to a

dramatic increase in immigration cases since FY 2000, and to accommodate
the additional workload generated by additional Border Patrol Agents along
the Southwest Border.

U.S. Marshals Service

Southwest Border Enforcement: $7.5 million to manage the increased

workload resulting from heightened immigration enforcement along the
Southwest Border, and the resultant spike in the number of detainees in
USMS custody.

CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN AND OBSCENITY

DOJ is committed to fighting child pornography and obscenity, protecting children

from trafficking, and preventing all forms of child exploitation. The Department
works with other law enforcement agencies to target, apprehend and prosecute child
molesters and those who traffic in child pornography. In 2006, the Department
charged 1,658 individuals and obtained 1,386 guilty pleas and convictions in
criminal cases involving predation against children. The FY 2008 budget provides
program increases totaling $12.5 million for Attorney General Gonzales’ Project
Safe Childhood initiative, which targets purveyors of child pornography and
obscenity. The FY 2008 President’s request also provides funding for efforts to
pursue child obscenity and abduction cases, as well as for aggressive efforts against
online child pornographers and molesters. Finally, the Adam Walsh Child Protection
and Safety Act of 2006 directs the Department to collaborate with the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children to target and take into custody the
approximately 100,000 non-compliant sex offenders who are believed to be living
in the United States. The FY 2008 budget provides $12.8 million in program
increases for the United States Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons to
implement sex offender tracking and management initiatives that comply with the
Walsh Act.
In total, the budget provides $25.4 million in program increases for crimes against
children and obscenity.

JUDICIAL SYSTEM SUPPORT AND INCARCERATION

As a result of successful law enforcement policies targeting terrorism, violent crime,

and drug crimes, the number of criminal suspects appearing in federal court and the
number of individuals detained and incarcerated continue to grow. Through the
United States Marshals Service (USMS), the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
(OFDT), and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the Department of Justice ensures that
federal criminals are safely and cost-effectively incarcerated and detained, and the
FY 2008 budget provides funding to improve each component’s ability to manage
the increasing detention population.

The FY 2008 President’s budget requests $142 million to expand prison capacity by
completing the first phase of the activation of a new prison in Pollock, La., and by
completing a current prison project in Mendota, Cal. The FY 2008 budget also
provides funding for BOP to expand the number of contract prison beds by 1,079.
Additionally, the FY 2008 budget provides $10.4 million to the United States
Marshals Service to improve judicial security in high-threat trials and vulnerable
judicial districts, such as the Eastern District of Virginia, which hosted the Zacarias
Moussaoui proceeding in 2006.

In total, the budget provides $152 million in program increases for detention and
incarceration.

ENFORCING FEDERAL LAWS IN THE COURTS

The Department of Justice is charged with enforcing federal laws and safeguarding
the rights and interests of the American people. As the nation’s top prosecutor and
litigator, DOJ’s legal activities resources contribute directly to its ability to enforce
and uphold federal statutes in court. Legislative changes frequently require the
Department to revise its programs and its focus to accommodate an increased law
enforcement and litigation workload. Accordingly, the FY 2008 budget provides
$21.6 million to expand the FBI’s DNA collection and indexing programs based on
the requirements specified in the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005 and the Adam
Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.

DOJ legal activities also align with top Administration priorities, and the FY 2008
budget provides $5.2 million for the Tax Division to enhance “Operation Continued
Follow-Through,” which is a tax law enforcement initiative that supports the
President’s focus on reducing tax fraud. In total, the FY 2008 budget provides $33
million in program increases for the Department of Justice’s federal law
enforcement efforts.

MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

The Department of Justice relies on innovative management practices and
information technology systems to ensure that resources are used efficiently and
effectively in support of key national security and law enforcement activities. The
Department continues to evaluate its programs and operations with the goals of
achieving both component-specific and departmental economies of scale, increased
efficiencies, and cost savings/offsets to permit funding for critical law enforcement
initiatives.

The FY 2008 President’s budget advances these goals by ensuring an interoperable

environment within the Department, and by forging information-sharing
mechanisms with other law enforcement and homeland security partners. As the
Department’s primary member of the Intelligence Community (IC), the FBI requires
the ability to contribute to and benefit from the multi-agency pool of knowledge
that the IC generates. The FY 2008 budget provides $47.5 million to advance the
FBI’s data intake, information sharing, and IT project management mechanisms, as
well as $11.5 million to improve the organization’s data storage and work facilities.

Additionally, the FY 2008 President’s budget provides $514,000 to improve

Interpol’s law enforcement information-sharing capabilities with its key state and
local partners, as well as with the FBI, the Department of Defense, and the National
Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. The budget provides $74.5 million
in new management and information technology (IT) program increases and $58.6
million in IT improvements across DOJ components and programs, for a total of
$133.2 million in IT program increases.

STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE

DOJ’s FY 2008 budget contains over $1.234 billion in discretionary grant assistance
to state, local, and tribal governments, and creates four new competitive grant
programs. These programs will address the violent crime problem that communities
face, and will provide states, localities, and tribes with considerable flexibility to
address their most critical needs. Consolidation of the grant programs will also
allow the Department to respond in a more targeted way to local up-ticks in the
crime rate. The four grant categories and their amounts are:

Violent Crime Reduction Partnership Initiatives: $200 million to help state,

local, and tribal law enforcement agencies form partnership with federal law
enforcement agencies to combat violent crime.

Byrne Public Safety and Protection Program: $350 million to assist state,
local, and tribal governments with their highest-priority concerns, such as
violent and drug-related crime and Presidential priorities, such as DNA
backlog reduction and offender re-entry programs.

Child Safety and Juvenile Justice Program: $280 million to consolidate

existing juvenile justice and exploited children programs, and to assist state,
 local, and tribal governments with targeted efforts.

Violence Against Women Grants Program: $370 million help state, local, and
tribal governments address multiple domestic violence needs.

Budget and Performance Summary 2008

Budget Fact Sheets 2008

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