Saturday, December 13, 2003

FBI's new rules

It will be interesting to see how the more invasive rules play out over the next few years.
"the FBI, unhindered by the restrictions of the past, will conduct many more searches and wiretaps that are subject to oversight by a secret intelligence court rather than regular criminal courts, officials said. Civil liberties groups and defense lawyers predict that more innocent people will be the targets of clandestine surveillance."

After the number of innocent people who have been confined at Guantanamo becomes more widely known there will be an eventual backlash at the current excesses. Then the FBI will most likely lose a great many surveillance tools.

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