DOJ Budget Adds Lawyers, Beefs Up National Security Funding
The U.S. Justice Department’s proposed budget for fiscal 2012 includes proposals to beef up national security with five more lawyers and 71 law enforcement agents.
The $28.2 billion budget proposal represents a 1.7 percent increase in budget authority, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times and a press release.
The budget includes an additional $122.5 million in funding for the FBI. According to a budget summary posted by the Washington Post, “the budget will substantially improve evidence gathering by expanding cyber-investigative capacity and supporting a newly established high-value interrogation group.”
The budget calls for 22 additional attorneys in the criminal division, including six lawyers who will focus on transnational intellectual property enforcement, and two more lawyers in the Office of Solicitor General, The BLT says.
