U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules

[babsbunny]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503497.html?hpid=topnews

More Federal Intelligence Changes Planned


By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, August 16, 2008; Page A01

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.

The proposed changes would revise the federal government's rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation's 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants.

Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes issued and planned by the Bush administration in its waning months. They include a recent executive order that guides the reorganization of federal spy agencies and a pending Justice Department overhaul of FBI procedures for gathering intelligence and investigating terrorism cases within U.S. borders.

[Tesla]

1. He's trying to set it up nice for his friend Johnny

Right after they declare war with Russia and steal the election!:sarcasm:

[RC]

2. How about going after admitted and proven criminals? You know like

Cheney, Rumsfeld and ghw & gw bu$h?

Leave us, US citizens alone unless we actually do something bad.

[spanone]

3. i woke up to this story too. unfuckingbelievable.

mr mukasey is really looking out for our rights, isn't he? :sarcasm:

[Orsino]

4. It's inevitable, I'm afraid.

I fear that Obama won't get around to closing these gaps, and Congress won't show the initiative.