bureau

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Bush apparently decided at some unspecified point that the intelligence agencies needed a “watcher” and thus established The Orphanage: analysts downstairs, “mission control” upstairs, the equivalent of an internal-affairs bureau for the clandestine services.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shortly after taking over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Vought moved to reduce the bureau to a skeleton staff of about 200.

From The Wall Street Journal

Four anonymous sources told MS NOW that Patel “pressed” the FBI to upgrade the bureau’s private jet for his use.

From Salon

In the time leading up to those final days, he was ordered by AP’s New York headquarters to begin destroying the bureau’s papers as coverage of the war wound down.

From Los Angeles Times

McDonnell has taken steps to streamline the LAPD’s operations, including folding the department’s four homicide bureaus into the Robbery-Homicide Division and updating the department’s patrol plan to account for the department being down fewer officers.

From Los Angeles Times