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To avoid a reprise of 9/11, the Justice Department has worked to shift the FBI from traditional policing, in which crimes are investigated after the fact, to an intelligence orientation, aimed at preventing attacks by breaking up cells and plots at an early stage.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)

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* To avoid a reprise of 9/11, the Justice Department has worked to shift the FBI from traditional policing, in which crimes are investigated after the fact, to an intelligence orientation, aimed at preventing attacks by breaking up cells and plots at an early stage. Attorney general Michael Mukasey has issued new investigative guidelines to solidify that shift. Predictably, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy is objecting, with an assist from the committee's ranking Republican, Arlen Specter, who too often helps carry the ACLU's water. They fret that the new guidelines may imperil civil liberties by permitting ...

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