The Los Angeles Times is reporting the FBI is significantly expanding its intelligence-gathering activities inside the United States. In December the FBI launched discussions with top CIA officials to rewrite two-decade-old ground rules covering how the agencies conduct domestic intelligence efforts. The FBI appears to be taking power from the CIA by stepping up its efforts to collect and report intelligence inside the U.S. on foreign figures and governments. Some congressional sources contend that the FBI move rests on ambiguous legal authority. In 2003 President Bush issued an order that allowed the bureau to begin collecting foreign intelligence in the U.S. under certain conditions.