Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the FBI, something local agents are taking note of. "It's very interesting when you think about 1908; there were only 34 agents and now we have 31,000 employees," said Tim Fuhrman, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Salt Lake City office. The FBI has evolved rapidly over the past century, Fuhrman said, from its roots in organized crime investigations and the mystique of J. Edgar Hoover's "G men" to a post 9/11 counterintelligence world. "When I came in, we didn't have computers," Fuhrman said. He highlights technology advances and greater inter-agency cooperation as successes but acknowledges that the FBI is not infallible. "There's no question that the tension that exists between security and civil liberties has always existed," Fuhrman said. "I do think the majority...
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