AP Investigation: CIA Working With NYPD To Spy On Muslims

An AP investigation reveals that since the September 11 attacks, the New York Police Department with the help of the CIA has targeted ethnic communities in ways that would violate federal rules if applied nationally.

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.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.