IP: FBI agents rebel over new powers

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> 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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