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RT @cbsandrewcohen: Good piece by Charlie Savage on FBI powers and protocols. http://bit.ly/2BG6uq 10/29/2009 |
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Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns http://bit.ly/2BG6uq 10/29/2009 |
Newspaper Roundup for Thursday, October 29, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
Home News National CNSNews.com Newspaper Roundup for Thursday, October 29, 2009 Thursday, October 29, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor New York Times: Shortage of Vaccine Poses Political Test for Obama 'Public test of Obama's competence' New York Times: Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns Fox News/AP: Clinton Gets in Lively Exchange With Pakistani Students 'If you want to see your territory shrink, that's your choice' Boston Globe: Rhode Island voters to decide on changing state s formal name Proposal to eliminate 'Providence Plantations' Politico: FEC puts Obama in a ...
The Morning Wrap
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times —
By the Book: The F.B.I.'s release of its “Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide" in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit has alarmed privacy advocates who say the bureau has been given too much power since the attacks of Sept. 11 to hunt for would-be terrorists inside the United States, The New York Times ...
Civil Liberties Groups Say FBI Guide Relaxes Investigations of Ethnic Communities
ACS Blog —
The release of a manual on FBI investigations reveals that the spy agency gained greater power following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to investigate groups of people based on their race. The New York Times reports that the FBI started investigating Somali communities in several American cities after it learned that a Somali-American teenager was involved in a suicide bombing in Africa. The Times reports: Instead of collecting information only on people about whom they had a tip or links to the teenager, agents fanned out to scrutinize Somali communities, including Seattle and Columbus, Ohio. The operation unfolded as the Bush ...
Video: Followers of Imam Shot by FBI Assault Camera Crew
The Jawa Report —
October 29, 2009 Video: Followers of Imam Shot by FBI Assault Camera Crew Here's a video of the followers of Christopher "Luqman Abdullah" Thomas assaulting a camera crew as they went in for an interview. As noted previously, there seems to be a dramatic uptick in the number of domestic terror suspects lately. On cue, the NY Times commences hand wringing and wondering whether or not the FBI has too much discretionary power in investigating terrorists here in the homeland. I always love these journalistic masturbatory exercises that frame the issue of Islamist terror in terms ...
What About Those Other FBI Fishing Expeditions?
Firedoglake —
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Charlie Savage’s story on the FBI’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide is a superb follow-up on my questions from yesterday, in which I asked what had happened to the people seemingly targeted through the Najibullah Zazi investigation.
Savage ...
