Bush to Create New FBI Intelligence Unit
President Bush continues on Ashcroft's mission to tear down the walls between intelligence gathering and criminal investigations:
President Bush on Wednesday ordered changes intended to break down old walls between foreign and domestic intelligence activities by creating a new national security division within the Federal Bureau of Investigation that will fall under the overall direction of John D. Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence.
The powers accorded intelligence gathering and law enforcment agencies are different for good reason. For example, it prevents the Government from making an end run around the Fourth Amendment. The ACLU has an excellent explanation of the issue here.
What exactly is "the wall?" Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick describes it this way:
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