It will be the first involving the department's intelligence division since a judge granted the police expanded surveillance powers in 2003.

Lawmakers have proposed other measures that would scale back surveillance powers and other aspects of the legislation.

Republicans said that threshold was too high given that the special surveillance powers were intended to catch terrorists before they strike.

Yet no one has made an adequate case that our intelligence agencies failed to detect the Sept. 11 plot because we lacked surveillance power.

Turning cell phones into tracking devices is an unwarranted expansion of surveillance power.

If history shows us anything, it's that the agency's future successes won't come through increased surveillance powers alone.

But city officials said the police should be trusted with enhanced surveillance powers.

But according to a survey to be released on Monday, that trend is coupled with attempts by law enforcement authorities to gain new surveillance powers.

There were 8,500 in 2000, the year before the Patriot Act broadened surveillance powers.

Bill C-30, Canadian legislation granting online surveillance powers to law enforcement and also :