FBI — FBI Commemorates 100 Years of Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity 100th Anniversary Commemoration National Building Museum Washington, D.C. July 17, 2008 Good morning. It is truly an honor to be here today to mark this significant milestone in the Bureau’s history and to share in the celebration of this occasion—the 100th anniversary of the FBI. My thanks to Attorney General Mukasey and the many other distinguished guests for joining us today. My special thanks, also, to Directors Webster, Sessions, and Freeh, for being here. Together, they represent three decades at the Bureau in which we saw a strong emphasis on white collar crime and organized crime, as well as counterintelligence cases. We witnessed innovations in crime-solving technologies and a dramatic expansion of our international program. But let’s go back a bit further in history. One hundred years ago, Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte organized a group of investigators under the Justice Department. In July, 1908, the Bureau of Investigation opened its doors. The first Bureau employees numbered just 34—nine detectives, thirteen civil rights investigators, and twelve accountants.

They investigated, among other things, antitrust matters, land fraud, and copyright violations. Compare that to today’s FBI—a threat-based, intelligence-driven, technologically-supported agency of over 30,000 employees—employees who are working in 56 field offices and 61 offices overseas. Employees who are combatting crimes as diverse as terrorism, corporate fraud, cyber crime, human trafficking, and money laundering. J. Edgar Hoover would have been proud. Today’s FBI is often, and I believe accurately, described as one of the world’s few intelligence and law enforcement agencies combined. The culture of the FBI is now, and for the past 100 years has been, a culture of hard work and dedication to protecting the United States, no matter what the challenges. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI’s number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack. We refocused our mission, revised our priorities, and realigned our work force. We strengthened lines of communication between the Bureau and our partners in the global intelligence and law enforcement community. And we are now stronger and better equipped to confront the threats we face today.

Today’s FBI continues to reflect and embody its motto—Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. It is a motto emblazoned on the FBI Seal. And it is worth its weight in gold. For the past 100 years, the men and women of the FBI have lived out their commitment to Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. It is precisely because they have done so that the Bureau has the reputation that it enjoys today. Even so, these are qualities that need to be constantly burnished by the men and women of the Bureau, to ensure they do not rust for lack of use. For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty. Bravery is the quality of being willing to face danger, pain, or trouble; to remain unafraid. Bravery is not merely the act of rushing in where others flee. It is the quiet, diligent dedication to facing down those who would do us harm and bring them to justice.

The well-known tennis champion and social humanitarian, Arthur Ashe, once said, “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Bravery is the capstone in the stories of Special Agents Rodney Miller, John O’Neill, and Lenny Hatton. On September 11, Miller and O’Neill went up, not down, the stairs of the North Tower of the World Trade Center to help others get out. Rodney Miller went all the way up to the 86th floor, offering assistance to fire and police personnel on the scene. Through radio transmissions, Lenny Hatton reported the crash of the second plane, and then assisted with evacuation efforts. Neither he nor John O’Neill survived. And we will never know how many lives were saved as a result of their and the other first responders’ extraordinary bravery on that day. Although their stories are unique, their bravery is repeated by the men and women of the FBI working each and every day around the country, and around the world. Whether cracking down on public corruption or white collar crime that corrodes the public trust.

Or capturing criminals who exploit children on the Internet, or commit violent crime, hate crime, organized crime, espionage, or terrorism. Such bravery can be seen in the story of Jay Tabb, a member of our Hostage Rescue Team. Tabb received the FBI Star after being shot and seriously wounded during the arrest of a wanted fugitive. Just months later, during a search of a terrorist safe-house in Afghanistan, he was injured again by a suicide bomber. Despite his own injuries, he rescued four wounded soldiers. After each incident his first question was, how soon can I get back to work with my team? Bravery can be seen in the story of Port Authority Police Detective Tom McHale, who has served on our Newark Joint Terrorism Task Force since 1995. The morning of September 11, McHale was blocks from the World Trade Center when he heard the first plane fly overhead. He raced to the scene to assist with evacuations and rescues. He was caught in both building collapses and injured. And yet as a trained ironworker, McHale spent the next weeks in the rubble cutting through steel and recovering bodies.

He worked at Ground Zero for 12 hours a day, before reporting for duty on the Joint Terrorist Task Force to help with thousands of leads. Bravery can be seen in the work of Jennifer Keenan, the first female Special Agent to be stationed in Pakistan and Yemen, and who helped carry out dangerous missions in both of those countries. Along with Tom McHale, Keenan was part of the FBI team in Pakistan who captured Al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaidah. Bravery can be seen in the story of Special Agent Bruce Bennett and three other agents, who were seriously wounded just last March in a terrorist bombing, also in Pakistan. And it can be seen in the story of Walter Walsh, our oldest living Special Agent, who survived shootouts with gangsters in the 1930s. And it so happens that each of these individuals is with us today. Would you all please stand so we can recognize you? And yet there is no shortage of heroes in the FBI. I am certain there are also many unsung heroes with us in the audience today—heroes whose stories may never be told. We honor them as well.

For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward. This brings us to the third quality that defines the Bureau, and that is integrity. It is the quality of being of sound moral principle; uprightness, honesty, and sincerity. For the men and women of the FBI, integrity is reflected in all that we say and we do—in honesty, in keeping promises, in fairness, in respect for others, and in compassion. Integrity is, in some ways, the most important of the three words that make up our motto. Integrity is the fire by which fidelity and bravery are tested. Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity set the expectations for behavior; they set a standard for our work. More than just a motto, for the men and women of the FBI, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is a way of life. And it has always been a way of life. It has been said of FBI employees that they stand on the shoulders of their predecessors. Indeed, we do.

And while it is a time of change in the FBI, our values will never change. It is not enough to stop the terrorist—we must stop him while maintaining his civil liberties. It is not enough to catch the criminal—we must catch him while respecting his civil rights. It is not enough to prevent foreign countries from stealing our secrets—we must prevent that from happening while still upholding the rule of law. The rule of law, civil liberties, and civil rights—these are not our burdens. They are what make us better. And they are what have made us better for the past 100 years. The men and women of the FBI today are part of history in the making. We understand that we have been passed a legacy and that it remains our responsibility to both build on and to pass on that legacy to those who will succeed us. John F. Kennedy once said, “…when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us…our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage? Second, were we truly men of judgment? Third, were we truly men of integrity?

Finally, were we truly men of dedication?” The men and women of the FBI, here and around the world, past and present, can resoundingly answer yes to each of these questions. That is because they live our motto each and every day. Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity remain the attributes of an organization with a proud history of distinguished service to the nation. And each of us is indeed honored to be part of that. With Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity defining every FBI employee, we stand fully ready to face the challenges of the next century. Thank you all again for being here with us today and God bless. Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity: The Essence of the FBI — FBI October 28, 2013 Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity: The Essence of the FBI Thank you, Sean. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you so much for gracing us with your presence, for honoring us, and for speaking so eloquently about the mission of the FBI and its great people. Thank you also to my friends and family who are gathered here today. My entire life is literally represented in this crowd, and it is a pretty picture.

These are the people that I have known and loved literally my entire life and from whom I have learned so much. I’m especially grateful that my dad and my sister and my brothers could be here today. I wish so much that Mom could be here to enjoy this amazing day. I can still hear ringing in my entire teenage years her voice as she snapped open the shades every single morning and said, “Rise and shine and show the world what you’re made of.” I found it less inspiring at the time—but it made us who we are. And I’ll never forget that. And to my five troops and my amazing bride, who talked me into being interviewed for this job—of course, with the caveat that she’d be okay because the president would never pick me. I've got to tell you, this is your last chance to talk to him about it. Mr. President, I am so grateful for this honor and this opportunity to serve with the men and women of the FBI. They are standing all around this great courtyard, and standing on duty all around this country and around this world at this moment. I know already that this is the best job I have ever had and will ever have.

That’s because I have a front row seat to watch the work of a remarkable group of people who serve this country, folks from all walks of life who joined the FBI for the same reason. They were teachers and soldiers and police officers and scholars and software engineers and people from all walks of life who wanted to do good for a living. They wanted jobs with moral content, and so they joined this great organization. I thought about them as I stood in this courtyard just a week ago and showed a visiting foreign leader the statue that overlooks this ceremony. It’s an artist’s depiction of the words from our shield that the president mentioned—fidelity, bravery, and integrity. And as I thought about that statue and those words and this ceremony, I thought I would take just a couple of minutes and tell you what those words mean and why I think they belong on our shield. First, fidelity. The dictionary defines fidelity as a strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. To my mind, that word on our shield reminds us that the FBI must abide two obligations at the same time. First, the FBI must be independent of all political forces or interests in this country.

In a real sense, it must stand apart from other institutions in American life. But, second, at the same time, it must be part of the United States Department of Justice, and constrained by the rule of law and the checks and balances built into our brilliant design by our nation’s founders. There is a tension reflected in those two aspects of fidelity, those two values that I see in that word, and I think that tension is reflected in the 10-year term that I’ve just begun. The term is 10 years to ensure independence. But it is a fixed term of years to ensure that power does not become concentrated in one person and unconstrained. The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive almost unimaginable scale. Bob Mueller continued that practice. And I will again, when we have agents graduating from Quantico. The balance reflected in my term is also a product of lessons hard learned from the history of this great institution. Our first half-century or so was a time of great progress and achievement for this country, and for the Bureau.

But it also saw abuse and overreach—most famously with respect to Martin Luther King and others, who were viewed as internal security threats. As I think about the unique balance represented by fidelity to independence on the one hand, and the rule of law on the other, I think it also makes sense for me to offer those in training a reminder closer to our own history. I’m going to direct that all new agents and analysts also visit the Martin Luther King Memorial here in Washington. I think it will serve as a different kind of lesson—one more personal to the Bureau—of the dangers in becoming untethered to oversight and accountability. That word fidelity belongs on our shield. Next, bravery. We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that’s wrong. Mark Twain once said that bravery “is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” If you’ve ever talked to a special agent that you know well and you ask him or her about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they’ll almost always give you the same answer: “Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.” But that’s the essence of bravery.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs. But you know the difference between them and most folks? They do it anyway, and they volunteer to do that for a living. What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath, and do that work anyway. They have seen the Wall of Honor—that I hope so much my friends and guests and family will get to see inside this building—with pictures and links to the lives of those who gave the last full measure of devotion for their country as FBI employees. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman said this: "I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it." I called a special agent a few weeks ago after he had been shot during an arrest.

I knew before I called him that he had already been injured severely twice in his Bureau career, once in a terrorist bombing and once in a helicopter crash. Yet when I got him on the phone, I got the strong sense he couldn’t wait to get me off the phone. He was embarrassed by my call. “Mr. Director, it was a through and through wound. No big deal.” He was more worried about his Bureau car, which he had left at the scene of the shooting. He felt okay, though, because his wife—also a special agent—was going to go get the car, so everything was fine. The men and women of this organization understand perfectly the danger they're in every day and choose to endure it because they believe in this mission. That’s why bravery belongs on our shield. And, finally, integrity. Integrity is derived from the Latin word "integer," meaning whole. A person of integrity is complete, undivided. Sincerity, decency, trustworthy are synonyms of integrity. It’s on our shield because it is the quality that makes possible all the good that we do.

Because everything we do requires that we be believed, whether that’s promising a source that we will protect her, telling a jury what we saw or heard, or telling a congressional oversight committee or the American people what we are doing with our power and our authorities. We must be believed. Without integrity, all is lost. We cannot do the good that all of these amazing people signed up to do. The FBI’s reputation for integrity is a gift given to every new employee by those who went before. But it is a gift that must be protected and earned every single day. We protect that gift by making mistakes and admitting them, by making promises and keeping them, and by realizing that nothing—no case, no source, no fear of embarrassment—is worth jeopardizing the gift of integrity. Integrity must be on the FBI shield. So, you see, those three words—fidelity, bravery, integrity—capture the essence of the FBI and its people. And they also explain why I am here. I wanted to be here to work alongside those people, to represent them, to help them accomplish their mission, and to just be their colleague. It is an honor and a challenge beyond description. I will do my absolute best to be worthy of it.

Thank you very much. Section Links FBI — Notable Speech: Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity By FBI Director James Comey FBI Director James Comey 1/7/2014 Thank you, Sean (Deputy Director Sean Joyce). Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you so much for gracing us with your presence, for honoring us, and for speaking so eloquently about the mission of the FBI and its great people. Thank you also to my friends and family who are gathered here today. My entire life is literally represented in this crowd, and it is a pretty picture. These are the people that I have known and loved literally my entire life and from whom I have learned so much. I’m especially grateful that my dad and my sister and my brothers could be here today. I wish so much that mom could be here to enjoy this amazing day. I can still hear ringing in my entire teenage years her voice as she snapped open the shades every single morning and said, “Rise and shine and show the world what you’re made of.” I found it less inspiring at the time, but it made us who we are. And, I’ll never forget that.

And, to my five troops and my amazing bride, who talked me into being interviewed for this job—of course, with the caveat that she’d be okay because the President would never pick me. I got to tell you, this is your last chance to talk to him about it. Mr. President, I am so grateful for this honor and this opportunity to serve with the men and women of the FBI. They are standing all around this great courtyard and standing on duty all around this country and around this world at this moment. I know already that this is the best job I have ever had and will ever have. That’s because I have a front row seat to watch the work of a remarkable group of people who serve this country, folks from all walks of life who joined the FBI for the same reason—they were teachers and soldiers, and police officers and scholars, and software engineers, and people from all walks of life who wanted to do good for a living. They wanted jobs with moral content, and, so, they joined this great organization. I thought about them as I stood in this courtyard just a week ago and showed a visiting foreign leader the statue that overlooks this ceremony.

It’s an artist’s depiction of the words from our shield that the President mentioned: Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. And, as I thought about that statue and those words and this ceremony, I thought I would take just a couple of minutes and tell you what those words mean and why I think they belong on our shield. First, fidelity. The dictionary defines fidelity as a strict and continuing faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. To my mind, that word on our shield reminds us that the FBI must abide two obligations at the same time. First, the FBI must be independent of all political forces or interests in this country. In a real sense, it must stand apart from other institutions in American life. But, second, at the same time, it must be part of the United States Department of Justice and constrained by the rule of law and the checks and balances built into our brilliant design by our nation’s founders. There is a tension reflected in those two aspects of fidelity, those two values that I see in that word, and I think that tension is reflected in the 10-year term that I’ve just begun. The term is 10 years to ensure independence.

But, it is a fixed term of years to ensure that power does not become concentrated in one person and unconstrained. The need for reflection and restraint of power is what led Louis Freeh to order that all new agent classes visit the Holocaust Museum here in Washington so they could see and feel and hear in a palpable way the consequences of abuse of power on a massive, almost unimaginable scale. Bob Mueller continued that practice. And, I will again when we have agents graduating from Quantico. The balance reflected in my term is also a product of lessons hard learned from the history of this great institution. Our first half-century or so was a time of great progress and achievement for this country and for the Bureau. But, it also saw abuse and overreach—most famously with respect to Martin Luther King and others who were viewed as internal security threats. As I think about the unique balance represented by fidelity to independence on the one hand and the rule of law on the other, I think it also makes sense for me to offer those in training a reminder closer to our own history. I’m going to direct that all new agents and analysts also visit the Martin Luther King Memorial here in Washington.

I think it will serve as a different kind of lesson—one more personal to the Bureau—of the dangers in becoming untethered to oversight and accountability. That word fidelity belongs on our shield. Next, bravery. We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that’s wrong. Mark Twain once said that bravery “is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” If you’ve ever talked to a special agent that you know well and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they’ll almost always give you the same answer: “Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.” But, that’s the essence of bravery. Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs. But, you know the difference between them and most folks? They do it anyway, and they volunteer to do that for a living.

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then, they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway. They have seen the Wall of Honor—that I hope so much my friends and guests and family will get to see inside this building—with pictures and links to the lives of those who gave the last full measure of devotion for their country as FBI employees. Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman said this: “I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.” I called a special agent a few weeks ago after he had been shot during an arrest. I knew before I called him that he had already been injured severely twice in his Bureau career, once in a terrorist bombing and once in a helicopter crash. Yet, when I got him on the phone, I got the strong sense he couldn’t wait to get me off the phone. He was embarrassed by my call. “Mr. Director, it was a through and through wound.

No big deal.” He was more worried about his Bureau car, which he had left at the scene of the shooting. He felt okay, though, because his wife—also a special agent—was going to go get the car, so everything was fine. The men and women of this organization understand perfectly the danger they're in every day and choose to endure it because they believe in this mission. That’s why bravery belongs on our shield. And, finally, integrity. Integrity is derived from the Latin word integer, meaning “whole.” A person of integrity is complete, undivided. Sincerity, decency, and trustworthy are synonyms of integrity. It’s on our shield because it is the quality that makes possible all the good that we do. Because everything we do requires that we be believed, whether that's promising a source that we will protect her, telling a jury what we saw or heard, or telling a congressional oversight committee or the American people what we are doing with our power and our authorities. We must be believed. Without integrity, all is lost. We could not do the good that all of these amazing people signed up to do. The FBI's reputation for integrity is a gift given to every new employee by those who went before.

But, it is a gift that must be protected and earned every single day. We protect that gift by making mistakes and admitting them, by making promises and keeping them, and by realizing that nothing—no case, no source, no fear of embarrassment—is worth jeopardizing the gift of integrity. Integrity must be on the FBI shield. So, you see, those three words—Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity—capture the essence of the FBI and its people. And, they also explain why I am here. I wanted to be here to work alongside those people, to represent them, to help them accomplish their mission, and to just be their colleague. It is an honor and a challenge beyond description. I will do my absolute best to be worthy of it. Thank you very much. Director Comey delivered this speech during his installation ceremony at FBI Headquarters on October 28, 2013. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity Chapter 4: Solidarity, a bones fanfic | FanFiction By: Covalent Bond The letters, FBI, are an acronym for Federal Bureau of Investigation, but they are also stand for the motto of the organization: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.

Booth is an honorable man who personifies the FBI motto, but standing up for his principles has never been harder than it is right now. Episode tag & Spoilers for Secret in the Proposal. Companion piece to Absolute Faith. Rated: Fiction T - English - Angst/Romance - S. Booth, T. Brennan - Chapters: 4 - Words: 8,293 - Reviews: 85 - Favs: 42 - Follows: 34 - Updated: 9/23/2013 - Published: 9/20/2013 - Status: Complete - id: 9701943 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten < Prev Author's Note: So, I think a part four was definitely needed and many of you agreed. Threesquares and dharmamonkey both gave me the idea to end the story this way Saturday morning (although they don't know that!). They both posted stories in answer to a prompt about engagements, and Threequares threw a tiny little mention of a circus and...

...Very minor spoilers for Cheat in the Retreat are contained in the chapter below (nothing worse than what was shown in last week's preview), just in case you're the type to rigorously avoid spoilers of any kind... I'm unofficially answering the prompt challenge with this. ~Q~ The letters, FBI, are an acronym for Federal Bureau of Investigation, but they are also stand for the motto of the organization: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. Booth is an honorable man who personifies the FBI motto, but standing up for his principles has never been harder than it is right now. ~Q~ The atmosphere at home has shifted dramatically over the last few days. Much remains unspoken and Brennan's vow to have faith in him doesn't completely relax Booth, but they both know that everything will be resolved in time. Meanwhile, mild little dust-ups and skirmishes ensue, mostly because Booth and Brennan are strong-willed personalities and the occasional conflict has always been part of their dynamic. Where they had departed from their normal was in the stilted sadness that had taken root and now, it was violently yanked out by the roots and tossed into the fire. They are pretty much back to normal except for the tension of waiting.

When the next murder investigation makes an undercover role seem necessary, Brennan's eyes dance as they always do. For a woman with no poker face, she does surprisingly well at undercover. She seems to relish it, in fact, and this proposed outing is no exception. Booth takes Christine to stay with Max, then drops by the Hoover to start the paperwork and requisition their gear and camouflage (that is to say, their ID and costumes). Along with clothing, he selects several pieces of jewelry. The last one is an impulsive choice that rests in his hand and brings a smile to his face. He wonders what she'll say about it. Returning to the house, he and Brennan expertly pack the borrowed clothes for a few days away. Years of practice, for both of them, have streamlined the packing process into an efficient operation that takes less than fifteen minutes apiece. Booth waits until she has finished zipping her suitcase. When she is about to gather it up to take to their rental car, he halts her with an anticipatory grin. "I got something for you." "What is it?" The game he's playing makes his eyes twinkle because he can't wait to see how long it takes her to catch on.

"Something old, something new, something borrowed..." Brennan has heard that old rhyme about bridal traditions before and could probably tell him the folk superstitions behind each component, including why something blue mattered. He's left it out, which causes her to finish the rhyme uncertainly. "You got me something blue?" "No, nothing blue." She's getting that bewildered little crinkle now, her blue eyes watching him for another clue. "I guess there's your eyes," he muses fondly, loving the unique color of them and the fact that they can be either blue or green or silvery grey but not today. "Today your eyes are blue." "Arguably, my eyes are old," she concedes. "Therefore, they can't be new. Or borrowed." "Too literal, Bones." And just a bit revolting. She's on a tear now, spilling out folklore he never knew he wanted to know: for example, that his very (formerly) anti-marriage (no use for archaic customs) partner knows this ancient rhyme better than he does. "The rhyme ends with 'and a silver sixpence in her shoe,' most likely to promote financial success.

Although, a sixpence isn't very much money in today's economy..." Booth knows she might just go on about this all day. Eager to share his own literal interpretation of the rhyme, he diverts her with a snap of the fingers. "Roxie, come back to me! I was talking about this." Now that he's got her attention, he holds her gaze while reaching for her left hand, pulling his own right out from behind him and slipping something onto the fourth finger (phalanx) before she's fully onto his intentions. "What is this?" Her hand retracts, her brow contracts into a puzzled query as she looks down onto a familiar-looking gold band, slender and very plain. Booth watches her study it, feels again that magnetic pull between them. They'd shared the same bed that night, falling onto the tiny single bed in mutual exhaustion after their long day as circus performers. And possibly the sweetest torture he could imagine had been the moment he woke in the wee hours and found her puddled up beside him. He hadn't moved, hadn't wanted to disturb her in any way if it would risk her moving apart or worse, waking up to be embarrassed.

Instead, he'd just kept his eyes on the contours of her sleeping face and had breathed her in. She was beautiful in the moonlight. He'd stayed awake to watch her for as long as he could, until sleep finally pulled him under and when he woke the next time, she was up making coffee. Of course, she doesn't remember any of that. When she also doesn't seem to remember the ring, he explains. "Buck and Wanda were married." Her eyes fly back up to his as the reason it looks familiar finally registers. Buck and Wanda, married circus stars extraordinaire. It's the only time they've ever been married. Granted, it was the ultimate marriage of convenience, unconsummated, unofficial, but still ... married. "The last time we played Roxie and Tony undercover, we were 'engaged to be engaged,' but this time we're supposed to be married. Now Tony, he's kind of a cheapskate.

So, he figures, since Wanda doesn't need that old ring anymore, maybe he could borrow it and give it to Roxie, because for Roxie to be married to Tony is something new." There are hints flying all over the place, but all she takes away from it is, "You borrowed this from the FBI property room?" "Yeah." He smirks. "Tony did." Bones frowns. "But ... won't Wanda want her ring back?" He gazes deeply into her eyes. "Roxie's just borrowing it until Tony gets his shit together and buys her a proper ring." "Oh." A long silence. She gets it. Brennan looks down at the ring thoughtfully, gives it a spin around her finger. "So, what do you say, Roxie? You willing to settle for this 'engaged to be engaged' gig?" Her beautiful eyes begin to shine and she slips into the role as naturally as breathing. "NO, Tony," she whines with a perfect Jersey twang. "I wanna be married to you." "We're gonna be married, Doll, 'cause that retreat is for married ...

couples." He brushes his lips against hers softly, skin scraping skin between the words, kissing her the way he wanted to when Roxie first walked toward him wearing that brain-draining dress. Their mouths join again and he's kissing her the way he wanted to when Wanda hopped out of that circus trailer on mile-long legs and Buck suddenly had 207 bones in his body. They press chest to chest the way he dreamed of that night in the rain when her teasing mouth set him on fire, just before she laughed and danced away and left him to cool down in the downpour. She sighs into him and he draws her head back to nuzzle her ear. "We're going to be married, Roxie." "Yes we are, Tony." She settles in against him and shivers. "As soon as you get your shit together." Yes we are, Booth thinks happily, glad she knows it.

"I don't know what I'd do without you." ~Q~ Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity Chapter 3: Integrity, a bones fanfic | FanFiction By: Covalent Bond The letters, FBI, are an acronym for Federal Bureau of Investigation, but they are also stand for the motto of the organization: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. Booth is an honorable man who personifies the FBI motto, but standing up for his principles has never been harder than it is right now. Episode tag & Spoilers for Secret in the Proposal. Companion piece to Absolute Faith. Rated: Fiction T - English - Angst/Romance - S. Booth, T. Brennan - Chapters: 4 - Words: 8,293 - Reviews: 85 - Favs: 42 - Follows: 34 - Updated: 9/23/2013 - Published: 9/20/2013 - Status: Complete - id: 9701943 + - Full 3/4 1/2 Expand Tighten < Prev Next > Author's Note: Wow, thank you to everyone who read and reviewed!

:) I am still in the process of catching up on thank you notes and got slammed with a horrid virus, so hang in there if you haven't heard from me yet. Luckily, this chapter was already finished. ~Q~ The letters, FBI, are an acronym for Federal Bureau of Investigation, but they are also stand for the motto of the organization: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity. Booth is an honorable man who personifies the FBI motto, but standing up for his principles has never been harder than it is right now. ~Q~ A little bit of improvement warms Booth the following day. Bones joins him when he sets out to arrest Lily's mother, then goes with him again to question Lily's boss where she agrees with his suggestion that the bicycle lock is the probable weapon. Their suspicions are confirmed when she finds traces of blood on it. As Booth cuffs him to lead him away, a confession spills out of him, a plea to Lily that he only murdered that man for her. He did this terrible thing, but, "I did it for you!" Brennan hears it but doesn't know how much Booth's heart is fully in tune with that pain. He's doing this terrible thing for her.

Brennan goes back to the lab alone, Booth keeps himself busy with confessions and paperwork, and another estranged day passes. He's surprised that evening by Danny Beck appearing in his office. "Got the guy, huh?" "Yeah, we got the guy." Why is he not surprised that the CIA already knows about the arrest only a couple of hours later? Booth laughs a little, acknowledging, "Thanks to you." He knows Danny timed his 'clean-up' for Booth to catch him and 'discover' the CIA links. Danny doesn't make mistakes like that. So it's no surprise either when Danny grins lightly and shrugs. "I didn't do anything." Then he adds, "I mean, seriously, if anyone asks. I didn't do anything." "Okay," Booth chuckles conceding the game is still afoot. "What do you want, Danny?" Because he definitely wants something. Danny is not a giving kind of guy. "To tell you we owe you one." "The CIA owes me one?" Disbelief tinges his sarcastic acceptance of favors owed. "You don't got to put labels on everything, Booth. I said we owe you one?

We owe you one." Danny reaches for his hand, giving it a pumped squeeze of solidarity that Booth reciprocates with a shrug. "All right. You owe me one. Thanks." "And, you know, there's always a place for you with us, you ever decide to leave this … cute little job you have here." It's condescension wrapped around admiration. Booth is the Special Agent in Charge of the Major Crimes division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—it's not a 'little' job, unless compared to a grander idea of protecting a nation rather than avenging individuals. Booth does his job very well, (with Brennan's very reluctant help lately), but Danny is implying it's not a lofty enough calling. Booth begs to differ. This is the only thing he's ever truly felt right about doing, and mostly that's because of Bones. This 'cute little job' is the definition of Seeley Joseph Booth, this FBI is his ideals put into practice. But it's also intricately connected with her and if she leaves, he'll lose heart and this 'cute little job' will lose all of its appeal. He doesn't want to do it without her.

It's starting to look more and more inevitable, however. "Well, the way things are going right now, I might just take you up on that." He finds Danny watching him expectantly. Knowingly. Pelant's recent actions (shutting down cellular networks, manipulating stop lights enough to cause massive gridlock in the nation's capital city) couple with connections to Egypt and Booth's fevered mind can't help but note that connotations of domestic terrorism with foreign entanglements are right up the CIA's alley. And they owe him one…. He doesn't know what has just gone down between himself and Danny, but the possibility of his cute little Pelant problem coming to an end at the hands of the CIA is quickly shunted aside. He doesn't dare to hope. But Danny nods slowly, making deliberate eye contact before he turns away. "Take care." ~Q~ Booth goes home early enough that Brennan is still awake and dinner is still warm in the oven. It smells like mac and cheese, and her voice calls out to him from the dining table where she is waiting. "Did he confess?" "Yeah.

He was hoping that no one would be able to identify the body or see the cause of death if he dumped the body into the air conditioning unit." He has come all the way into the dining area now, and sees her sitting there alone at a table set for two. She has set aside a glass of Cabernet (half drunk while she waited) and starts pouring wine into the waiting glass. Then she turns to him, her face strained and cautious and he knows she's already searching for words. This is all just a peace offering. She's trying to be nice about it. His entire core floods with ice water that hardens into hoarfrost when he looks into her troubled eyes and she says, "Booth, I have to tell you something." She's handing him wine to dull the pain first. He panics, flails verbally. "Uh, all right, look, Bones, please, just … you just got to give me a little more time, that's all. Please." He's thinking of Danny Beck and favors owed by the CIA and maybe in a week or two Pelant will be dead. The CIA, they have ways of making people turn up mysteriously dead. God please, don't do this to me.

Don't take her away from me. He's begging her, begging God, no, no… He moves closer, mindless panic making him almost unable to hear her when she shakes her head. But his eyes see a little smile lift the corners of her mouth. "No, Booth, I'm not…" She shakes her head and trails off. He's frozen, waiting for the verdict. Everything is in her hands and he's suspended helplessly while she decides his fate. It's only a second that passes, but to Booth it feels time has stopped and his breath has stopped (because he would stop breathing to make her happy and if this is what she wants, he'll die but she'll be happy). So he waits. 0 A good motto can establish an organization’s disposition, build esprit de corps, and set priorities. There are no half-measures for a paratrooper; once you jump from a plane, you’re committed “all the way,” which is the 82nd Airborne’s motto . Air Force Pararescuemen specialize in high risk rescue missions; they do their job so “that others may live.” In corporate America, some companies “think” (IBM) and others “think different” (Apple).

Intelligence agencies around the world have mottos, too. Here are 12 spy agency mottos you might not know. 1. “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” The CIA’s official motto is so boring that it can only be a cover: “The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence.” The “ philosophical foundation ” of the Company’s work (and the true motto to many of its officers) comes from John 8:32 in the Bible. Engraved on the wall of the original headquarters building at Langley are the words: “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” 2. “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity” The FBI’s motto was coined by W.H. Drane Lester in the Bureau’s employee magazine, The Investigator.

In September 1935—three years after the organization was renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation—he wrote that “FBI” is a perfect abbreviation from which to choose a motto, “for those initials also represent the three things for which the Bureau and its representatives always stand: ‘Fidelity – Bravery – Integrity.’” Sponsored Turn Today’s Data into Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs Available on campus and online, the Georgetown University master's in Applied Intelligence prepares you to take on ever-evolving data challenges. Learn more 3. “Sember Occultus” The Secret Intelligence Service, Britain’s famed spy agency (commonly called MI6) has been in operation for over a century. Though you can’t argue with his results, when James Bond is out in the field, he sometimes forgets to adhere to MI6’s motto: “Sember occultus,” or: always secret. 4. “Where no counsel is, the people fall…” The Mossad (which is Hebrew for the gloriously spy-ish name “The Institute”) is Israel’s national intelligence agency.

(Its FBI-equivalent is Aman.) The agency takes its motto from Proverbs XI:14: “Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” 5. “Do not discuss confidential affairs” The motto for Greece’s National Intelligence Service is unambiguous, if uninspiring. “λόγων απορρήτων εκφοράν μη ποιού.” (For those who don’t read Greek, that means “Do not discuss confidential affairs”). It is a quote of Periandros of Corinth, a seventh century B.C. philosopher-king and one of the “Seven Sages of Greece.” 6. “In every place where necessity makes law” The French spy agency Directorate-General for External Security operates with the motto: “Partout où nécessité fait loi,” which means, “In every place where necessity makes law.” For what it’s worth, the headquarters of DGSE is sometimes called “the swimming pool,” placing it nicely alongside “the doughnut” (central office of Britain’s signal-intelligence agency, GCHQ) and “the aquarium” (headquarters of Russia’s GRU). 7.

“Greatness of Motherland in your glorious deeds” The motto of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia (GRU) is: “Greatness of Motherland in your glorious deeds.” Before its dissolution in 1991, the KGB’s motto was not so much about distinction as allegiance: “Loyalty to the party – Loyalty to Motherland.” 8. “Audi, Vide, Tace” The Security Information Service, spy office of the Czech Republic, uses as its motto: “Audi, Vide, Tace.” It’s short, to the point, and good advice for any member of the intelligence community: be a good listener, a good observer, and keep quiet. 9. “Peace and security through foresight” The military spy agency of the Netherlands is the Defense Intelligence and Security Service, sometimes referred to as DISS or MIVD (from its Dutch name, Militaire Inlichtingen en Veiligheidsdienst). Its motto is in keeping with most other intelligence mottos listed: “Peace and security through foresight.” 10.

“Intelligence for the defense of society, of the Democratic Rule of Law and of national interests.” Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, Brazil’s intelligence agency, has a suspiciously literal motto: “A Inteligência em defesa da sociedade, do Estado Democrático de Direito e dos interesses nacionais,” which is Portuguese for “Intelligence for the defense of society, of the democratic Rule of Law and of national interests.” 11. “Watch and Listen for the nation, To protect national security” The intelligence arm of Bangladesh is clearly doing its job, because who knew that Bangladesh had an intelligence arm? The Directorate-General of National Security Intelligence (জাতীয় নিরাপত্তা গো‌য়েন্দা) is one of three spy offices in that country, and like its peers, has a poor reputation with respect to human rights. (The CIA allegedly toyed with a kind of acid—the LSD variety. Bangladesh’s spooks used acid of the burn-holes-in-skin type.) Its motto is “Watch and Listen for the nation, To protect national security.” 12.

“I understand and defend” Spies for Agenzia informazioni e sicurezza esterna (External Intelligence and Security Agency), the intelligence agency for Italy, operate under the motto “I undertand and defend.” The Agenzia has only been around since 2008; previously, Italy operated the Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (SISMI). Before SISMI was dissolved, its motto was “Arcana intellego,” which is Latin for the excellent phrase, “Understanding hidden things.”

Question: Which US organisation has the motto ‘Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity’?
Answer: FBI