So FBI willing to go undercover in Congress?

[lala_rawraw]

I am not a lawyer, but is this not violating the separation of powers?
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FBI willing to go undercover in Congress if necessary

WASHINGTON - The new chief of the FBI's Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress.

Assistant FBI Director James Burrus called the bureau's public corruption program "a sleeping giant that we've awoken," and predicted the nation will see continued emphasis in that area "for many, many, many years to come."
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If conditions warrant, Burrus said, he wouldn't balk at urging an undercover sting like the famed Abscam operation in the late 1970s in which a U.S. senator and six House members agreed on camera to take bribes from FBI agents posing as Arab sheikhs.

"We look for those opportunities a lot," Burrus said, using words rarely heard at the bureau over the last quarter century. "I would do it on Capitol Hill. I would do it in any state legislature. ... If we could do an undercover operation, and it would get me better evidence, I'd do it in a second."
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/15937935.htm


Is this good, bad, what? Anyone?

[kestrel91316]

1. People on Capitoll Hill who aren't doing anything wrong have nothing

to be afraid of with this. Sort of like the NSA spying on us all. I think that's what it might take to clean up the mess. The RW can't object - they are the ones who started us down this road.

If it violates separation of powers, that's an issue for defense attorneys to appeal any criminal cases to higher courts on.

[Jim Sagle]

2. Only if it goes Democrat.

[BadgerKid]

3. Sounds like a shot across the bow. n/t

[global1]

4. FBI Goes Undercover As Pages......nt