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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:29:44 -0500
FBI agents rebel over new powers Liberty Watch: Observer campaign Ed Vulliamy in New York Sunday December 2, 2001 The Observer The US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, was yesterday reported to be ready to relax restrictions on the FBI's powers to spy on religious and church-based political organisations. His proposal, leaked to the New York Times, would loosen limits on the FBI's surveillance powers, imposed in the 1970s after the death of its founder J. Edgar Hoover. The plan has caused outrage within the FBI itself with agents expected to act upon new surveillance powers describing themselves as 'very, very angry'. ... http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610381,00.html
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