IP: FBI agents rebel over new powers (fwd)

Eugene Leitl Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Dec 3 04:17:40 PST 2001




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Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:29:44 -0500
From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
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Subject: IP: FBI agents rebel over new powers


>
>FBI agents rebel over new powers
>
>Liberty Watch: Observer campaign
>
>Ed Vulliamy in New York
>Sunday December 2, 2001
>The Observer
>
>The US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, was yesterday reported to be
>ready to relax restrictions on the FBI's powers to spy on religious
>and church-based political organisations.
>
>His proposal, leaked to the New York Times, would loosen limits on the
>FBI's surveillance powers, imposed in the 1970s after the death of its
>founder J. Edgar Hoover.
>
>The plan has caused outrage within the FBI itself with agents expected
>to act upon new surveillance powers describing themselves as 'very,
>very angry'.
>
>...
>
>http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610381,00.html

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