Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers

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Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers - washingtonpost.com:

"The changes would give the FBI's more than 12,000 agents the ability at a much earlier stage to conduct physical surveillance, solicit informants and interview friends of people they are investigating without the approval of a bureau supervisor. Such techniques are currently available only after FBI agents have opened an investigation and developed a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed or that a threat to national security is developing. "