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Senators seek delay in FBI's expanded spy powers

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Two senior senators urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey Monday to delay a change to FBI rules that critics say would weaken checks on the bureau's investigative powers.

Mukasey wants to loosen restrictions on the FBI's national security and criminal investigations, saying the changes are necessary to improve the bureau's ability to detect would-be-terrorists.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., however, asked Mukasey to put those new rules off until after FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the Judiciary Committee on Sept. 17.

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Is the FBI trying to make their own laws now? The powers they are trying to slip in fall well beyond the scope of the current laws.

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