Mike German Talks About the Updated Attorney General Guidelines for the FBI
Mike German Talks About the Updated Attorney General Guidelines for the FBI - Via The American Civil Liberties Union:
The FBI is overhauling five types of existing guidelines. Under the new guidelines, a persons race or ethnic background could be used as a factor in opening an investigation, a move the ACLU believes will institute racial profiling as a matter of policy. The guidelines would also give the FBI the ability to use intrusive investigative techniques before public demonstrations. The rewritten guidelines have been drafted in a way to give the FBI the ability to begin surveillance without factual evidence, stating that a generalized threat is enough to use certain techniques.Visit www.aclu.org/podcasts for all the latest audio from the ACLU.
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