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If Obama's busting bad Bush policies, somebody please add new FBI snitch/snooping guidelines to the list

AP reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to use executive orders to overturn numerous Bush-administration policies implemented by executive fiat (perhaps including overturning some of the President's notorious "signing statements"). This is to be expected and in most cases I'm glad to see it. (Bush did the same thing with many Clinton-era executive policies when he first came into office.)In fact, as long as somebody's compiling a list of unilateral, last minute Bush administration misdeeds that need immediate undoing, allow me to humbly suggest that the FBI's under-the-radar guidelines on snitching and political snooping issued in October are among those that deserve immediate repeal. According to the New York Times, the FBI considered these new rules "one of the final steps by the Bush administration to extend its far-reaching counterterrorism policies into the next administration and beyond...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 09, 2008 (boomark / email).