New FBI Manual Change Sparks Privacy Concerns - June 13, 2011

"The FBI is preparing new investigative guidelines for its agents that civil libertarians say would make it easier for agents to search commercial or law enforcement databases, conduct lie detector tests, search people's trash and conduct physical surveillance, sometimes without any suspicion of wrongdoing.

The FBI says the changes are merely fine-tuning of existing rules.

The new guidelines are still under review inside the law enforcement agency. They will be contained in a new edition of the FBI manual, the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide.

"The proposed changes primarily clarify and enhance the definitions of terms and procedures" already in use, FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni said in a statement. "Each proposed change has been carefully looked at and considered against the backdrop of the tools our employees need to accomplish their mission, the possible risks associated with use of those tools and the controls that are in place. Overall, this is ... not any major change."

Civil liberties groups disagreed.

"What we find troubling" is that the FBI is loosening requirements of 3-year-old guidelines which private groups feel already contain "very broad authority," said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates. Khera's organization was among those receiving an FBI briefing late last month on the proposed updates to the guidelines.

"What they shared with us doesn't allay our concerns and raises new ones for us," Khera said.

The impending set of guidelines "adds more techniques and further rolls back oversight," said Emily Berman, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

In 2008, new guidelines formally created a category of investigation called an assessment in which the bureau can examine whether a person or group poses a national security or criminal threat without having any suspicion they have engaged in wrongdoing."

What a crock of horse$h!+

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[unoitaliano]

All they are doing is gearing up for the transition from liberty to tyranny. Not much longer and they wil turn every patriotic American into " Al Queda" members. Instead of using these tactics for what they lie to us for, they use them against the people that give them the authority with. The criminals behind this tyranny only use the name American as a guise to fool Americans until they have all ends covered for a complete scientific, technological, dictitorial takovr The signs are in ur Face

[raytube720]

BETWEEN THE LINES

What this really says is: We have open, easy access to all this data about everybody, and we all use it for everything. We need some justification to make this permissible, because we are already doing it anyway.

[whoanora]

Get to know more about past cases regarding the constitution. Like George Bush said the constitution is just a piece of paper. You are only a commodity of the united states. Do you know what your social security number is for?

[prplkow]

Nice to know they have their own power to give themselves more power. The government is giving themselves freedom of rights to do whatever the f they please.

[LeafFreedom]

I just gave myself new leeway allowing me to beat the face of anyone going through my trash.

[usergently]

I'm shitting in my trash bags from now on.

[osiris6669]

fuck our government

[CreationsVibration]

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[TheStreeser1]

My guess is ,that there will be another Government planned terror attack ,very soon.. So they can clamp down even harder , on The Freedom Rights of The American People.