Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
Though the Justice Department cited threats posed by terrorists in rolling out guidelines that allow FBI agents to conduct domestic intelligence operations, it easily could have offered another justification: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Many of the newly authorized operations--conducting surveillance in public places, keeping dossiers on people based on media accounts--closely resemble those that FDR approved in a presidential directive on Sept. 6, 1939, days after the beginning of World War II...
