FBI urges renewal of surveillance measures after foiled al-Qaida plot

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

FBI urges renewal of surveillance measures after foiled al-Qaida plot

As details of underwear bomb emerge, Robert Mueller tells House
committee al-Qaida is still intent on high-profile attacks

Paul Harris in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 May 2012 18.29 BST

The head of the FBI has said his agency was "exploiting" the seizure of an intact and advanced form of underwear bomb that Islamic militants in Yemen had apparently wanted to use in an attempt to target a US-based jet.

Robert Mueller told a congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday that the supposed plot, revealed by the Associated Press on Monday, demonstrated the need to renew surveillance provisions that expire at the end of the year.

Details of the plot have been unfolding in the past few days. A sting operation in Yemen involving an undercover agent working for Saudi Arabian intelligence and the CIA ended with the sophisticated bomb being handed over to western intelligence. It is now being examined by FBI experts at its forensic labs in Quantico, Virginia.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/09/fbi-surveillance-measures-al-qaida

[Cali_Democrat]

1. I'm not saying the FBI did this, but you know what they could do?

...claim to stop a phony plot that never existed and use that as justification for extending surveillance measures.

Just sayin'.