Spies could be in charge of cops in FBI shake up

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - A White House plan to create a massive new domestic intelligence division within the FBI raised concerns on Wednesday among civil liberties advocates who feared it could lead to a return to the bureau's dark days of spying on Americans.

......Timothy Edgar, national security policy counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, said giving the nation's spy chief power over the FBI was worrisome.

While FBI agents are bound by the nation's Constitution, he said, spies operate abroad with fewer constraints.

"What we could see is the spies in charge of the cops," Edgar said.

"You have a DNI (director of national intelligence) who is in charge of mostly secret foreign intelligence and now is also in law enforcement. So does that mean we have a secret police? Our concern is we could be going down that road."....

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12016961.htm

[alfredo]

1. I think we should be watching what the NSA is doing.

They aren't supposed to be spying on US citizens, but as we learned in the past, they can, and will if directed to. Cointel was NSA. NSA is mostly EW stuff like communication intercept.