While the current threat to national security is coming from international terrorist groups, are we still concerned about espionage?
National security continues to be threatened by espionage as well as by terrorism. According to the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, during Fiscal Year 2008 the FBI opened 55 new economic espionage cases and pursued 88 pending cases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made 158 arrests resulting in 187 indictments and 143 convictions for export-related criminal violations, and the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security participated in more than 792 export investigations resulting in 40 criminal convictions. Espionage against the United States continues to be a standard practice that some of our friends, as well as our potential adversaries, use to pursue their national interests. For additional information, view Espionage and Other Compromises of National Security 1975-2008 on the Products page of this site.
