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| W/ CIA Help, NYPD Moves Covertly in Muslim Areas | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 24 2011, 08:45 PM (396 Views) | |
| Matt | Aug 24 2011, 08:45 PM Post #1 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the New York Police Department has become one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies, targeting ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government, an Associated Press investigation has found. These operations have benefited from unprecedented help from the CIA, a partnership that has blurred the line between foreign and domestic spying. The department has dispatched undercover officers, known as "rakers," into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program, according to officials directly involved in the program. They've monitored daily life in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs. Police have also used informants, known as "mosque crawlers," to monitor sermons, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing. Neither the city council, which finances the department, nor the federal government, which has given NYPD more than $1.6 billion since 9/11, is told exactly what's going on. Many of these operations were built with help from the CIA, which is prohibited from spying on Americans but was instrumental in transforming the NYPD's intelligence unit. A veteran CIA officer, while still on the agency's payroll, was the architect of the NYPD's intelligence programs. The CIA trained a police detective at the Farm, the agency's spy school in Virginia, then returned him to New York, where he put his new espionage skills to work inside the United States. And just last month, the CIA sent a senior officer to work as a clandestine operative inside police headquarters. In response to the story, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a leading Muslim civil rights organization, called on the Justice Department to investigate. The Justice Department said Wednesday night it would review the request. "This is potentially illegal what they're doing," said Gadeir Abbas, a staff attorney with the organization. The NYPD denied that it trolls ethnic neighborhoods and said it only follows leads. Police operations have disrupted terrorist plots and put several would-be killers in prison. "The New York Police Department is doing everything it can to make sure there's not another 9/11 here and that more innocent New Yorkers are not killed by terrorists," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. "And we have nothing to apologize for in that regard." AP's investigation is based on documents and interviews with more than 40 current and former New York Police Department and federal officials. Many were directly involved in planning and carrying out these secret operations for the department. Though most said the tactics were appropriate and made the city safer, many insisted on anonymity, because they were not authorized to speak with reporters about security matters. In just two episodes showing how widely the NYPD cast its net, the department sought a rundown from the taxi commission of every Pakistani cab driver in the city, and produced an analytical report on every mosque within 100 miles, officials said. One of the enduring questions of the past decade is whether being safe requires giving up some liberty and privacy. The focus of that debate has primarily been federal programs like wiretapping and indefinite detention. The question has received less attention in New York, where residents do not know for sure what, if anything, they have given up. ... continued By ADAM GOLDMAN - Associated Press,MATT APUZZO This link will self destruct in 30 days or less, probably: http://news.yahoo.com/cia-help-nypd-moves-covertly-muslim-areas-090019915.html so here's another: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/08/24/with_cia_help_nypd_moves_covertly_in_muslim_areas/ Edited by Matt, Aug 24 2011, 09:22 PM.
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| Matt | Aug 24 2011, 09:09 PM Post #2 |
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I've got a great story from my own hamlet in Oregon, USA. This was last year, so the details are fuzzy. I am part of a Muslim family. I don't speak Arabic or fast during Ramadan. As far as religion goes, I am not affiliated... only closely related (by marriage) to those who are active in the local Muslim community. My Lebanese friend went to get his vehicle serviced, brakes I believe. I don't remember if he left it for the day and returned at the end of the ordeal, or if he waited at the shop. While under the vehicle, the technician discovered something foreign attached to the axle. The shop called the cops and recommended the bomb squad. Police sealed off the area. Professionals removed the foreign object and discovered it was not a bomb. When my friend asked what it was, the cops would not tell him. Fortunately one of the guys at the shop overheard the discussion among law enforcement officials. The device was for GPS tracking. Edited by Matt, Aug 24 2011, 09:19 PM.
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