Mr. Paulson also announced that the administration was proposing a temporary expansion of authority for states and localities to issue tax-exempt mortgage revenue bonds.
They believe that the government's recent request to let the FBI get Americans' internet use records in national security investigations without going to court, and without any suspicion of wrongdoing, is a huge expansion of authority that would open floodgates of sensitive information to the FBI.
And they owe much to a component of second-wave feminism, suspicious of psychiatric expertise and professional expansion of authority over women's health, bodies and minds (e.g. 'Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy', in Tiefer, 2004).
Parliamentary approval for an expansion of new authorities under the European Financial Stability Facility will be required and is not guaranteed.
People informed of the expansion say the authorities are retooling their media apparatus to deepen their leverage over the Web, and regulators are jostling for the growing power and privilege at stake.
It not only required that demands for records show at least an indirect connection to a suspected foreign agent, but it also implemented an array of procedural changes designed to check the secret expansion of surveillance authorities.
While critics and privacy advocates fear expansion of border authorities under President Trump, it's worth noting that this particular policy actually has its roots in the Obama administration.
Last year, the FISA amendments supported by then-Senator Obama (despite his earlier promise to filibuster them) conferred on the NSA a vast expansion of its authorities.
The core determination is a form of authority expansion, as the information content of the original authority is augmented with newer authoritative sequences, while the resolution of ambiguities and duplicates is a form of authority driven verification.
Almost immediately, commentators concluded that the law was unnecessary, that it authorized a lawless and unprecedented expansion of presidential authority, and that Democrats in Congress cravenly accepted this White House initiative only for the basest political reasons.
