FBI's powers may become fearsome
05/24/05
Some really scary things are happening around Washington these days. Congress has become a place of great incivility and rancor, which threaten to undermine any hope of legislative remedy to a myriad of problems, from Social Security to soaring health-care costs to immigration to a steadily crumbling manufacturing base once the envy of the world. But perhaps the most frightening prospect for Americans is an unfettered national police force with the sole discretion to determine who can be investigated as a potential terrorist. That's the impact of little-known proposals to greatly expand the powers of the FBI, permitting its agents to seize business records without a warrant and to track the mail of those in terrorist inquiries without regard to Postal Service concerns...
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/11721829.htm
from South Mississippi Sun Herald, by Dan K. Thomasson -- Hat Tip to Prison Planet
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Some really scary things are happening around Washington these days. Congress has become a place of great incivility and rancor, which threaten to undermine any hope of legislative remedy to a myriad of problems, from Social Security to soaring health-care costs to immigration to a steadily crumbling manufacturing base once the envy of the world. But perhaps the most frightening prospect for Americans is an unfettered national police force with the sole discretion to determine who can be investigated as a potential terrorist. That's the impact of little-known proposals to greatly expand the powers of the FBI, permitting its agents to seize business records without a warrant and to track the mail of those in terrorist inquiries without regard to Postal Service concerns...
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/11721829.htm
from South Mississippi Sun Herald, by Dan K. Thomasson -- Hat Tip to Prison Planet
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 26. Mai, 16:04
