2/1/17 Trevor Aaronson on The Intercept’s cache of secret FBI documents showing their vast powers and operating rules

2/1/17 Trevor Aaronson on The Intercept’s cache of secret FBI documents showing their vast powers and operating rules

Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, discusses the classified FBI documents obtained by The Intercept showing that the FBI has expanded its role far beyond federal law enforcement after 9/11, and that it is now a domestic and foreign intelligence agency with “extraordinary secret powers.”

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