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To: stockman_scott who wrote (52240)	5/29/2002 4:34:10 AM
From: habitrail	Respond to of 65232

Whew, I was beginning to think that the government was going to try to keep using the events of Sept. 11 to slowly erode away individual freedoms bit by bit. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation will reassign hundreds of agents from local drug and violent-crime investigations to counterterrorism and intelligence" "The bureau plans to seek new authority, through legislative or administrative changes, to expand its use of wiretaps under the foreign-intelligence surveillance law; share criminal and grand-jury information with the intelligence community; conduct interviews abroad; and detain aliens for as much as 90 days under immigration rules."

To: stockman_scott who wrote (52240)	5/30/2002 2:51:36 AM
From: habitrail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

I keep hearing more about this in the news and it sounds disturbing. It sounds like some FBI people had discovered terrorist activities and reported it. So why does the FBI need more broad sweeping authority than it already has? If the powers at be at the FBI chose to ignore their own operatives then why will increasing the number of operatives and increasing the FBIs power over the rest of us necessarily fix the problems of arrogant, insulated bureaucrats? The language I keep hearing indicates that they will be given more latitude to operate. What this means to me is that they can do a lot more open ended investigating of pretty much whoever they want, whenever they want, without having to justify it with a warrant, or an already committed crime, or any of that pesky bill of rights stuff. ***** GOLD TIE-IN ****** For those that need a gold reference in every post; I saw a government funded TV ad today that says people that buy drugs are helping terrorists. In an era of magnetically barcoded banknotes, criminals may move towards a less trackable asset - gold seems ideal; it is not magnetically barcoded and it is portable and universally valued. So I wonder if, in the future, people that own lots of gold might be suspected of terrorism and investigated under the new, broad, sweeping, FBI powers.