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Docs Reveal FBI Used Muslim Outreach As Guise to Collect Intel
For at least four years, federal agents used Muslim community outreach meetings at mosques in Northern California as a guise to collect intelligence and catalog the identities, personal information, religious views and travel of religious leaders and congregants, FBI documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed yesterday.
March 28, 2012
New Counterterrorism Guidelines Allow U.S. to Hold Americans' Data Longer
Signed yesterday, the new rules will allow the government to hold data on U.S. citizens who are not suspected of terrorist activity for 10 times longer than before.
March 23, 2012
NYPD Eyed Shia Muslims Based on Religion
News that the NYPD recommended increasing the surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on religion, is the latest report in the AP’s ongoing investigation into the department’s controversial intelligence unit and its questionable tactics.
February 3, 2012
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