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New FBI guidelines expand reliance on snitching, political snooping

I'd like to hear both Presidential candidates tell us whether they'd repeal the new DOJ investigative guidelines (pdf) issued this month by the Bush Administration, which appear designed to enable expanded investigations of political dissenters and create all sorts of negative, unintended consequences, not the least of which is expanding FBI use of informants in situations there is no active investigation of a crime - sort of like the East German Stasi maintained an ongoing informant network to monitor dissenters during the Cold War. Reported the Center for Investigative Reporting's Muckraker Blog:The Justice Department finalized a new set of more lenient guidelines regulating what tactics FBI agents can use for criminal and national security investigations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).