New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers

[katty]

(as if there is not enough spying already)

more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/washington/21fbi.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

August 21, 2008
New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday.

The plan, which could be made public next month, has already generated intense interest and speculation. Little is known about its precise language, but civil liberties advocates say they fear it could give the government even broader license to open terrorism investigations.

Congressional staff members got a glimpse of some of the details in closed briefings this month, and four Democratic senators told Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in a letter on Wednesday that they were troubled by what they heard.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Mukasey:

Chertoff's piss boy. You can bet that all of this eminates from Skeletor.

[EFerrari]

2. Great. The Gang That Can't Shoot Striaght needs more power.

:sarcasm:

[Bobbieo]

3. And they are probably going to get it. Who - What is going to stop them?

[EFerrari]

4. No one that I can think of. n/t

[katty]

5. of course, get tips from Chinese police-just grab-no explanation

definition of a police state.

[Boondog]

6. While heads are turned...

Executive Order 12333, new rules for implementation of the Omnibus Crime Control Act, this. This is a full court press around the conventions, naming of veeps, tightening polls. Don't be distracted by the lights, balloons, bells and whistles. The assault on civil liberties and implementation of a police state is fast and furious right now. Bushco isn't gone yet and it's still potently venomous.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3831580&mesg_id=3831580