Newsweek is reporting that in Congress, Goss recently introduced a little-noticed bill that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States-including arresting U.S. citizens. The bill would essentially overturn a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States. One former general counsel of the CIA, Jeffrey Smith, questioned the bill. He told Newsweek, “This language on its face would have allowed President Nixon to authorize the CIA to bug the Democratic National Committee headquarters. I can’t imagine what Porter had in mind.”