The FBI in Boston is the FBI "of" boston. FBI offices in general are local level law enforcement that apply federal law locally, with several set up for actual interstate and international crime.

Boston has had a lot of issues over the years due to the fact that the local office is so local, and has a long history of being in bed with the Irish mob.

Other federal agencies are broader and take orders more directly from the federal regions, but the FBI is a bit of a different animal and one thing we look for is when something happens somewhere, and then FBI people from another region get flown in to take charge.

For Militia related stuff, the feds likely to take charge of an investigation are going to headquartered out of Texas, Oklahoma, Seattle, or Pennsylvania. Occasionally Michigan, but their main thing in Michigan historically has been the Muslims. Gang related stuff is LA or Denver, computer crime and fraud might be out of the new complex here in Portland. NY, NJ, Boston, that is FBI organized crime division stuff.

Most of the real experts in International Terrorism are some how some way going to end up with some sort of connections out of the Tampa bay area, so for example, you bounce a name of a fed through Intelius, then check past addresses, you see Tampa area stuff listed a few times, that starts smelling like at some time they were connected with USSOCOM. You see NY, NJ, Boston, he is a mob investigator. You see Seattle, Idaho, Texas, he probably specialized in "extremist groups" or militia related investigations. You see Virginia, Washington DC, those areas, then you are talking beltway jobs, international espionage, policy wonks, tracking diplomats, big leagues stuff. Vegas, LA, you are talking about bank robber chasers, gang related stuff, money laundering issues, less traditional organized crime investigations.

BATFag turf is really the corridor through old Moonshine country, which is also gunrunning country, Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, up to Pennsylvania. They chase gunrunners. BATFags in CA, in reality, don't deal much with the gun laws, as that is all state DOJ turf, in reality. 90% of the BATF operations in CA are in regulating the multi-billion dollar wine and alcohol industry and the career path of those agents usually involves avoidance of gun law enforcement cases, as it is not nearly as rewarding as squeezing payment in one form or another from rich wine producers.