The new rules have given F.B.I. agents the most power in national security matters that they have had since the post-Watergate era.

http://documents.nytimes.com/the-new-operations-manual-from-the-f-b-i#p=1

 

Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns

One section lays out a low threshold to start investigating a person or group as a potential security threat. Another allows agents to use ethnicity or religion as a factor - as long as it is not the only one - when selecting subjects for scrutiny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/us/29manual.html?_r=1


From Information Clearing House