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[FYI] FBI and CIA coming on-line with new powers



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25508.html  

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FBI and CIA coming on-line with new powers  

By Thomas C Greene in Washington  

Posted: 30/05/2002 at 10:59 GMT  

The FBI has assumed new powers to investigate people and 
organizations not even suspected of crime, with blessings from the US 
Department of Justice and its terror-terrified Lord Protector John 
Ashcroft.  

[...]  

These sorts of failures will be inevitable and on-going if the FBI 
isn't allowed to operate outside the law, was the subtext. Calling 
anti-terror investigations the FBI's new and primary crusade, he 
proposed to re-organize the Bureau and transform it into a premier 
national secret-police force as it had been under J. Edgar Hoover.  

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