[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 31, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E36]
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                      RECOGNIZING GRANT D. ASHLEY

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                            HON. JIM GIBBONS

                               of nevada

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 31, 2006

  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to recognize the 
efforts of one outstanding law enforcement official who dedicated much 
of his life to fighting crime. After serving almost three decades in 
law enforcement, Grant D. Ashley will retire from the FBI today, 
January 31, 2006. Grant Ashley began his service with the FBI in 1976 
in his hometown of Los Angeles, California. After being appointed as a 
Special Agent and following a period of training at Quantico, Virginia, 
Mr. Ashley investigated White Collar and Violent Crimes in the Los 
Angeles Division and served on the Los Angeles Division SWAT team.
  Grant Ashley would later serve as a supervisor of Drug Investigation 
in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in 
Washington, D.C. He would then supervise the Violent Crimes Task Force 
and a special squad on Organized Crime and Narcotics in Chicago. In the 
mid-1990s, Mr. Ashley gained responsibility over national security 
matters in the San Diego division of the FBI, and was then appointed 
Associate Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Division. In 
February 1999, Grant Ashley moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, to serve as 
designated Special Agent in Charge. Three years later he was appointed 
Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division.
  In 2004, FBI Director Robert Mueller appointed Grant Ashley to serve 
as Executive Assistant Director for Law Enforcement Services, where he 
had oversight over the FBI's broad efforts to support State and local 
law enforcement. When Director Mueller appointed Mr. Ashley he said, 
``Support for our partners in law enforcement is a priority for the FBI 
and is absolutely vital to our success in fighting terrorism and crime. 
Grant's background and experience as an investigator and manager make 
him ideally suited to oversee these efforts. He will bring to bear the 
same drive and innovation that he brought to criminal investigations to 
our efforts to improve the FBI's law enforcement services.''
  And indeed he did. Mr. Ashley served admirably as he worked to 
coordinate the efforts of the FBI, such as the laboratory division, 
forty-seven legal attache offices, the Investigative Technologies 
Division, and the Criminal Justice Information Services Division, with 
the dedicated efforts of our State and local law enforcement. He 
understood the challenges facing our Nation's law enforcement 
officials, especially now in the 21st century as we fight terrorism at 
home and abroad. His dedication to improving law enforcement 
coordination across-the-board will continue to serve as a model for our 
Nation.
  I am pleased to have had the opportunity to work with Grant Ashley 
and to have had the great honor to call him, friend. Today, I also call 
him a patriot. As he retires from close to three decades of service 
with the FBI, I would like to thank Grant Ashley for his outstanding 
service to law enforcement and to his Nation. Grant Ashley's commitment 
and dedication to fighting crime and law enforcement has made our 
country safer, and for that we should all thank him and congratulate 
him on an exceptional career with the FBI.

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