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Released: June 13, 2011
F.B.I. agents get leeway to push privacy bounds
Source: Charlie Savage, NY Times
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance
teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.
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