Soon, Army counterintelligence officials expect to have new authorities to search, execute warrants and make arrests off-post for national security or terrorism investigations.

The new law “allows all Army civilian [counterintelligence] agents to conduct searches, to execute warrants and to make arrests off of the installation, because that’s where the majority of our people live today,” Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., last week.

The rules would bring Army counterintelligence agents in line with off-base enforcement rules that cover other military investigators who focus on criminal cases, like the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, or the Air Force’s Office of

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