Posted on 09/13/2008 3:04:35 PM PDT by Prunetacos
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department made public on Friday a plan to expand the tools the Federal Bureau of Investigation can use to investigate suspicions of terrorism inside the United States, even without any direct evidence of wrongdoing.......
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Under existing guidelines, F.B.I. agents cannot use certain investigative tools in conducting so-called threat assessments as a precursor to a preliminary or full inquiry.
The revisions would allow agents to conduct public surveillance of someone, do “pretext” interviews — pose as someone other than an agent or disguise the purpose of the questions — or send in an undercover source to gather information.
“The Justice Department made public on Friday a plan to expand the tools the Federal Bureau of Investigation can use to investigate suspicions of terrorism inside the United States, even without any direct evidence of wrongdoing.......”
You mean like what they did to Steven Hatfill?
Dr. Steven Hatfill - FBI's Person of Interest in Anthrax case - shows photo of his girlfriends apartment trashed by FBI.
The FBI has too much power already. I don’t support this.
Actually, these would be reasonable techniques if we could count on them to be employed by reasonable people. So...you’re right, it’s a bad idea.
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