Word: fbi
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Kelley's retort: the FBI must sometimes infiltrate groups to learn whether laws are about to be broken. Said he: "As a practical matter, the line between intelligence work and regular criminal investigations is often difficult to describe. What begins as an intelligence investigation may well end in arrest and prosecution of the subject...
William Ruckelshaus, a former Deputy Attorney General and former acting FBI director, suggested a compromise. He urged that Congress spell out the FBI's authority "to investigate individuals or groups who may through violence present a threat to other individuals or groups." But Ruckelshaus would have Congress give the Attorney General the power to set the guidelines on how the FBI would use its authority...
ADMINISTRATIVE CURBS. Since assuming office in February, Attorney General Edward Levi has taken a number of steps to leash the FBI. For one thing, he has required that White House requests for FBI action be made in writing and through official channels. He also has instructed Kelley to report to him all improper requests; in his 2½ years as director, said Kelley, there have not been...
Last week Levi told the Senate committee that his department is drafting an order that would allow the FBI to investigate domestic dissidents only if there is "a likelihood" that they are involved in violent and illegal activities. The directive would also prohibit the FBI from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet...
CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT. Levi announced that an Office of Professional Responsibility was being set up within the Justice Department to watchdog all of the agency's employees, including those of the FBI. The witnesses and the Senators agreed that Congress should go a step farther and set up its own committee to oversee the FBI. Ruckelshaus urged that such a committee "be privy to all information the FBI has relating to any specific investigation [and] operate as openly as possible." The committee's job would be to see that any new law was honored; demand the names of groups...