The intelligence package that Congress approved this week includes a series of little-noticed measures that would broaden the government’s power to conduct terrorism investigations, including provisions to loosen standards for FBI surveillance warrants and allow the Justice Department to more easily detain suspects without bail. Other law-enforcement-related measures in the bill — expected to be signed by President Bush next week — include an expansion of the criteria that constitute “material support” to terrorist groups and the ability to share U.S. grand jury information with foreign governments in urgent terrorism cases. These and other changes designed to strengthen federal counterterrorism programs have long been sought by the Bush administration and the Justice Department but have languished in Congress, in part because of opposition from civil liberties advocates. Full Story
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