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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Wed May 9, 2012, 12:26 PM May 2012

FBI Director Urges Congress To Renew Wide-Ranging Surveillance Power In Counterterror Probes

By PETE YOST | Associated Press | 49 minutes ago in

FBI Director Robert Mueller (MUHL'-ur) has urged Congress to renew wide-ranging surveillance authority to thwart terrorism plots like the latest one in which an al-Qaida-engineered explosive device was to have been detonated on a U.S.-bound airline flight.

Mueller tells a House panel the FBI is examining the device and says the scheme hatched in Yemen demonstrates that it's essential for Congress to reauthorize counter-terrorism tools enacted in 2008. These programs expire at year-end.

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FBI Director Urges Congress To Renew Wide-Ranging Surveillance Power In Counterterror Probes (Original Post) Purveyor May 2012 OP

Fuck that. Did those tools help them with this underwear plot? No it was human intelligence or Vincardog May 2012 #1

He should show pictures of the device and say how he needs all sorts of new powers to deal with jp11 May 2012 #2

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)

1. Fuck that. Did those tools help them with this underwear plot? No it was human intelligence or

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed May 9, 2012, 01:10 PM

May 2012

a plant (another plot fomented by the police) as the case may be.

jp11

(2,104 posts)

2. He should show pictures of the device and say how he needs all sorts of new powers to deal with