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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.07.2006
WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 government employees, including hundreds of police officers, have been convicted over the last two years in FBI corruption cases against crooked public officials, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.
In testimony to the Senate panel that oversees the bureau, Mueller called public corruption cases the FBI's "top criminal investigative priority."
Public corruption "erodes public confidence and undermines the strength of our democracy," Mueller said in his testimony. "Unchecked, it threatens our government and our way of life."
Overall, 177 federal officials have been convicted in corruption cases over the last two years, Mueller said. During the same time, the FBI investigated cases against 158 state officials, 360 local officials and more than 365 police officers. It was not immediately clear how many police officers represented local, state or federal law-enforcement agencies.
Mueller appeared Wednesday morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where senators, frustrated by scant details on the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program, rapped Mueller for refusing to show how the government has curbed terrorist activities in the United States.
Mueller said he was unable to talk about the warrantless-spying program because it is classified.
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