From: "Pierce T.Wetter III" <address@hidden>
OAnother interesting question is "why would they want to instill this
power in an (umbrella) federal law enforcement agency".
They aren't.
You're right. I misparsed a sentence in the news article which made
me think they were asking homeland security chief Ridge to ask
congress for the power; in fact, they are asking Ridge to ask
congress
to give that power to EAC itself.
My theory is that you were intended to misparse the sentence by CNN.
That's a rude theory (accusing me of lying) and discourages me from
reading further.