Interview with acting FBI assistant director Chip Burrus.

(From Fox News Channel)

Byline: Greta Van Susteren

VAN SUSTEREN: Polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs is wanted for sexual contact with a minor and accomplice to rape -- in this case, forcing a teenage girl to marry and have sex with an adult man. This week, the FBI named Jeffs one of their 10 Most Wanted fugitives. How did he make a list that includes international terrorist Usama bin Laden?

Joining us in Washington is acting assistant director of criminal investigations at the FBI Chip Burrus. Nice to see you, sir. CHIP BURRUS, ACTING FBI ASST. DIRECTOR: Thank you. VAN SUSTEREN: Did someone have to move off the list to make an empty seat, or does the 10 Most Wanted sometimes include 11?

BURRUS: No, it doesn't. It always includes 10. And the last person on the list was caught in Juarez, Mexico, 48 hours after we put him on the list. And he was a child molester, too. BURRUS: So you don't -- do you don't have an opening for very long, apparently. BURRUS: Well, sometimes. There have been people on -- there's a guy on the list who was on when I joined the bureau in 1983. So it's been a long time. VAN SUSTEREN: But if you picked up this guy, it was unlikely that, the one in Mexico, that you were going to have the list empty for a couple weeks while you look for the 10th. BURRUS: No. No. What we do is, we canvas the field offices. We have 56 field offices. We canvas them, and from that, we take a lot of different nominations, and we choose who we think is the best selection for this top 10 list. VAN SUSTEREN: All right. So when you picked up the last, 10th person, did the word go out to all the areas, We picked up number 10, so we now have a vacancy?

BURRUS: Yes. VAN SUSTEREN: And so what happened -- and how did Mr. Jeffs get on?

BURRUS: Well, here's what happens. We canvass the field offices for nominations. And there are two factors that go into the selection for the top 10 list. Number one, you have to be accused of a particularly heinous crime. And number two, you have to have -- there has to be some indication that perhaps publicity will help find you and bring you to justice. In Mr. Jeffs's case, he had the particular heinous crime, he's charged with child molestation, conspiracy, and he's got two federal warrants on him called UFAP, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. And in this case, too, because he's been wanted for about a year and he travels between various compounds, we think, we thought the publicity would really do us some good to bring him on the list and make people aware that he is wanted and, hopefully, bring him to justice safely. VAN SUSTEREN: Is there ever a big debate, almost like a little argument, about who should go on, like, someone might have his or her candidate for it?