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FBI and CIA coming on-line with new powers

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

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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.

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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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