National Academy of Public Administration. NAPA, founded in 1967
and chartered by Congress in 1984, is an independent organization
dedicated to improving the performance of government and other
institutions that implement public policy. After extensive study,
a special NAPA panel presented an extensive report
on the FBI's efforts to re-organize itself in the wake of 9/11
to a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. The panel
was headed by former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. While the
study found the FBI was now making progress, it cited TRAC data
to illustrate how difficult it is to change the direction of a
large agency. A table covering federal drug enforcement from FY
1986 through the first six months of FY 2003, for example, presented
data showing that the "FBI's drug enforcement activities continued
to expand even after [former FBI] Director Freeh raised the priority
associated with terrorism as a result of the World Trade Center
bombing of 1993 and the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995."
