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Using expanded authorities that permit investigations without actual evidence of wrongdoing, the FBI has also targeted minority communities for interviews based on race, ethnicity, national origin and religion.

The Wall Street reform bill includes expanded authorities for regulators to shut down failing financial titans--but regulators will not use those powers on banks that run derivatives casinos on the scale of those currently in existence, in which five banks control nearly $300 trillion in trading.

In 2008, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), which revised the procedures for authorizing certain foreign intelligence collection, including expanded authority to collect information on persons outside of the United States using electronic surveillance.

That expanded authority did not include "G.A.O.

The expanded authority, however, is "critical ammo in the commission's enforcement arsenal," he said.

One proposal before Congress would give the Government Accountability Office expanded authority to audit the Fed.

The charge was made under expanded authority that the United States Congress provided the military to crack down on contractor abuses.

The Ali case represents the first instance in which the military decided to use its expanded authority.

Officials have already used their expanded authority to prosecute five American men, four of whom are awaiting trial.

Department officials said they did not expect a large increase in wiretaps and surveillance, even with the expanded authority.

By a one-vote margin this week, the House voted to give Mr. Bush expanded authority to negotiate trade agreements.