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["Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>]

errr... WTF!??

anyone familiar with this?  I'm not even sure what to think of it.  My
initial impression is that it's a bad idea, and that's not even based on
the civil liberties paranoia angle; bureauocratically speaking ... yeah,
all we need is yet another member of the already bewildering array of
intelligence agencies.

> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5388509/site/newsweek/
> July 7 - The selection of Sen. John Edwards as John Kerry’s running
> mate has raised concerns inside the FBI and among civil-liberties
> groups that the North Carolina senator will use the campaign to promote
> his controversial proposal to create a new domestic spy agency.
>
> For the past 18 months, Edwards has been perhaps the Senate’s foremost
> champion of a much-debated proposal to strip the bureau of its
> intelligence-gathering functions and turn them over to a new domestic
> spy agency patterned after Britain’s M.I.5.

-Alan