Remember the good old days when lots of big city police departments had Red Squads to monitor and harass people whose left-wing politics were unpalatable for the City Fathers? It seems that political police are making a comeback. The NYPD has an ongoing operation targeting Muslim communities for special surveillance aimed at uncovering anti-American sentiments (you know, seditious stuff like criticism of US foreign policy, complaints about drones launching missiles into villages in Pakistan, planes bombing villages in Afghanistan, shit like that). This operation ranges well beyond the department’s official jurisdiction of New York City. This domestic spying program, based on ethnic-religious profiling of the crudest sort - has been created in partnership with the CIA, which is legally prohibited from, um, domestic spying. And it looks like AP has exposed the NYPD’s denials as lies.
According to Salon, “both federal and local law enforcement agencies have developed sophisticated and far-reaching intelligence-collection operations to gather data about America's minority communities, and other groups, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect criminal or terrorist activity."
According to Salon, “both federal and local law enforcement agencies have developed sophisticated and far-reaching intelligence-collection operations to gather data about America's minority communities, and other groups, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect criminal or terrorist activity."
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