WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is preparing new investigative guidelines for its agents that civil libertarians say would make it easier for agents to search commercial or law enforcement databases, conduct lie detector tests, search people's trash and conduct physical surveillance, sometimes without any suspicion of wrongdoing. "What we find troubling" is that the FBI is loosening requirements of... [more]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is preparing new investigative guidelines for its agents that civil libertarians say would make it easier for agents to search commercial or law enforcement databases, conduct lie detector tests, search people's trash and conduct physical surveillance, sometimes without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
"What we find troubling" is that the FBI is loosening requirements of 3-year-old guidelines which private groups feel already contain "very broad authority," said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates. Khera's organization was among those receiving an FBI briefing late last month on the proposed updates to the guidelines.
"What they shared with us doesn't allay our concerns and raises new ones for us," Khera said.
The impending set of guidelines "adds more techniques and further rolls back oversight," said Emily Berman, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
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Response by happyrenter
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Funny that you ask why liberals "aren't" comlaining about this, and then link to an article in which, lo and behold, liberals are complaining about this. I think there's a problem with your premise.
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Response by Truth
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"lo and behold"...
Riversider: She has "a problem" and "your premise" has nothing to do with it.
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Response by Riversider
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If Bush were president it would lead every news cast.
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Response by lucillebluth
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if bush were president we would know and care a lot more about the several shady little wars our coutry is not really fighting in muslim countries at the moment. nothing to see here. relax muslim lady, your boy could possibly be a closet muslim his middle name is hussein! so just simmer, ok? he's got it.
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Response by Truth
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He's got it : a body-explosive vest, just waiting to be sent out to wherever in the world he and his family are on vacation.
They told him it's a bullet-proof vest.
The wife just thinks it's another one of her gaudy, oversized accesories.
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Response by alanhart
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Here you go, Unstable Mabel, ruining this topical New York residential real estate thread also. Is your goal to get every single thread on this board killed off? You're a disgraceful disgrace.
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Response by MidtownerEast
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RS -- You are truly an idiot. A quick Yahoo! search showed 134 articles already, including the front page of HuffPo and other so-called "liberal" publications. So liberals are complaining about it and vociferously. You really can't get a single thing right.
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Response by Riversider
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Happy Renter, I can honestly tell you . that the negative press on this issue is but a mere fraction of what it would have been four....in either case. relax! it's just an observation.
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Response by happyrenter
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Relax? Do i seem excited? I just observed that your observation was I'll-informed. Liberals are complaining. Are they complaining as loudly as they would have if Bush enacted these policies? Probably not. Just like conservatives aren't cheering as loudly as they would have if Bush had enacted these polices.
It is human nature:people are more likely to support something if it is proposed by an ally than by an opponent, and that's true for conservatives, liberals, libertarians, communists, socialists, fascists, and anarchists. But that doesn't mean that everyone just blindly supports what their allies do--hence the liberal opposition to these new guidelines.
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Response by bjones2731
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when has anyone "really" complained about anything in america since the 60's? and when i say complain, i'm talking about some french/greece/spain style "no one goes to work, the city/state is shut down, we're pelting police officers with rotten eggs and we're gonna be heard!"
we're all too busy trying to scrape together as much cash as we can as often as we can to worry about things we find trivial to our efforts in scraping together even more cash.
Funny that you ask why liberals "aren't" comlaining about this, and then link to an article in which, lo and behold, liberals are complaining about this. I think there's a problem with your premise.
"lo and behold"...
Riversider: She has "a problem" and "your premise" has nothing to do with it.
If Bush were president it would lead every news cast.
if bush were president we would know and care a lot more about the several shady little wars our coutry is not really fighting in muslim countries at the moment. nothing to see here. relax muslim lady, your boy could possibly be a closet muslim his middle name is hussein! so just simmer, ok? he's got it.
He's got it : a body-explosive vest, just waiting to be sent out to wherever in the world he and his family are on vacation.
They told him it's a bullet-proof vest.
The wife just thinks it's another one of her gaudy, oversized accesories.
Here you go, Unstable Mabel, ruining this topical New York residential real estate thread also. Is your goal to get every single thread on this board killed off? You're a disgraceful disgrace.
RS -- You are truly an idiot. A quick Yahoo! search showed 134 articles already, including the front page of HuffPo and other so-called "liberal" publications. So liberals are complaining about it and vociferously. You really can't get a single thing right.
Happy Renter, I can honestly tell you . that the negative press on this issue is but a mere fraction of what it would have been four....in either case. relax! it's just an observation.
Relax? Do i seem excited? I just observed that your observation was I'll-informed. Liberals are complaining. Are they complaining as loudly as they would have if Bush enacted these policies? Probably not. Just like conservatives aren't cheering as loudly as they would have if Bush had enacted these polices.
It is human nature:people are more likely to support something if it is proposed by an ally than by an opponent, and that's true for conservatives, liberals, libertarians, communists, socialists, fascists, and anarchists. But that doesn't mean that everyone just blindly supports what their allies do--hence the liberal opposition to these new guidelines.
when has anyone "really" complained about anything in america since the 60's? and when i say complain, i'm talking about some french/greece/spain style "no one goes to work, the city/state is shut down, we're pelting police officers with rotten eggs and we're gonna be heard!"
we're all too busy trying to scrape together as much cash as we can as often as we can to worry about things we find trivial to our efforts in scraping together even more cash.