FBI Surveillance Today: Bay Area Agents Used "Community Outreach" to Gather Intel on Muslims
April 4, 2012
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org - The American Civil Liberties Union has released new records showing the FBI's San Francisco division collected information on Muslim religious activities protected by the Constitution. The FBI is banned by law from keeping records on people's religious practices unless there is a clear law enforcement purpose. But the ACLU said documents show the FBI violated that law by using so-called "community outreach" to procure and store information about religious beliefs, practices and otherwise innocent activities of Muslim community members. This is just the latest revelation in a long-string of surveillance tactics used by the FBI and other agencies to monitor Muslims post-9/11. The ACLU is now calling on the Inspector General to launch an investigation into the violation of the Privacy Act. We speak with Mike German, the ACLU's National Security Policy counsel. From 1988 to 2004 he served as an FBI agent specializing in domestic counterterrorism.
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