FBI's Case Shift

Criminal prosecutions in which the FBI served as lead investigator have fallen by about 25 percent in the past five years, USA Today reports. The agency handled nearly 19,000 cases in fiscal 2001, and a little more than 14,000 last year. Convictions are down by about 11 percent over the same period.

Over the same period, convictions in the FBI's national security and terrorism cases quadrupled, from 84 to 336.