Post-9/11 NYPD Partnership with CIA to Conduct Surveillance, Infiltrate Mosques and Ethnic Communities Draws Calls for DOJ, Congressional Investigation

The Associated Press has published an extensive report on how the NYPD, working with the CIA, conducted extensive surveillance of ethnic neighborhoods and used informants, referred to as “mosque crawlers,” to report on sermons and other activities in Muslim religious communities even though no specific information about wrongdoing in such locations had been received.  The report notes that senior CIA officials expressed concerns to then CIA Director Tenet about whether cooperative arrangements created between the NYPD and the CIA violated legal restrictions on domestic spying.

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