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They are the latest in a series of new laws and strategies adopted since the Sept. 11 plane hijackings to strengthen the hand of the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies. “As we have heard recently, FBI men and women in the field are frustrated because many of our own internal restrictions have hampered our ability to fight terrorism,” Ashcroft said at a news conference called to announce the new policy. “Our philosophy today is not to wait and sift through the rubble fol lowing a terrorist attack. Rather, the FBI must intervene early and inves tigate aggressively.” The changes prompted questions from some, with civil-liberties groups arguing that the broad expansion of law-enforcement power was both un constitutional and unnecessary. “Under the new Ashcroft guide lines, the FBI can freely infiltrate mosques, churches and synagogues and other houses of worship, listen in on online chat rooms, and read message boards even if it has no evi dence that a crime might be com mitted,” the American Civil Liber ties Union said in a statement. Under the guidelines, FBI agents are permitted to attend any public gathering to gather information on terrorists’ activities. They do not need, as was the case under the old rules, evidence that a specific crime had been committed, nor do they need advance approval from senior officials in Washington. For decades, the Justice Depart ment had barred law-enforcement of ficials in most cases from conducting surveillance on churches, mosques and political rallies. The department enacted the rules in the 1970s after the disclosure that the FBI had placed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an tiwar protest groups and others un der surveillance as they agitated for change in U.S. policy. Now, FBI agents are authorized to visit public events where they sus pect persons involved in terrorist activities might gather to further criminal plots. The rules authorize field agents to launch such investigations on their own, once they get approval from their direct supervisors, and to con duct the probes for up to a year. The rules also permit the FBI to launch broad Internet searches for ev idence of criminal activity without first obtaining tips or other investiga tive leads suggesting that a specific criminal act had been committed. A Justice Department memo cir culated to law-enforcement officials Thursday suggested, for example, that FBI agents could search the In ternet for sites related to anthrax or bomb-making in an effort to gener ate investigative leads. Under the old rules, such Internet searches could be conducted only in cases where there was evidence of criminal activity. Ashcroft stressed that the policy changes do not affect rules govern ing wiretaps and other forms of elec tronic surveillance. Agents will still be required to furnish specific evi dence that a crime has been com mitted before getting approval for such surveillance. Peter Rubin, a professor of consti tutional law at Georgetown Law Center, said some of the changes ap pear relatively benign, such as the decision to authorize broad search es of publicly available information on the Internet. 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