Attorney General Michael Mukasey has agreed to postpone implementation of new FBI guidelines, after four Democratic senators raised concerns in a letter Wednesday about proposed changes that they say could permit the FBI to launch investigations of American citizens without any individualized basis for suspicion.
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The proposed rule change, first reported last week, would loosen restrictions on information sharing between agencies, and allow investigators to begin gathering information for criminal or intelligence purpose, even in the absence of any particularized evidence suggesting that a target is connected to criminal activity.
In an article on the same subject, written a week ago, Washington Post adds:
The guidelines [...] do not require congressional approval.
Ho-kay, then! So the time has come that we are inviting national surveillance, provoked perhaps by race, religion, or legal free speech activities. We are on the verge of opting to give an enormous amount of power to unelected officials, held accountable by no one, belonging to a(n arguably illegal) federal police force. Really, America? Does that make you feel safe?
(I guess now at least those brown people over there won't be "jealous of our freedom" or whatever.)
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