rssNew Surveillance Rules Threaten FBI Relationship With Muslim Groups
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 10:57 am
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Muslim groups are rethinking their previous commitments to work with the FBI in light of growing concerns that mosques and other Islamic centers are under surveillance or being infilatrated — without any evidence they’ve participated in a crime, The Associated Press reports.
That decision should come as little surprise to the Justice Department, given that, as I reported in April, a last-minute rule adopted by the Bush administration in December gives the FBI unprecedented powers to conduct surveillance of targets without any basis for suspicion of criminal activity. That wasn’t likely to sit well with Muslim groups, who believe they’re often the targets of such surveillance. (Because the Department of Justice doesn’t reveal how it uses the FBI authority, it’s impossible to confirm or deny those claims.)
Under the new Attorney General Guidelines — adopted by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and which the Obama administration has not revoked — the FBI may use physical surveillance; interview a person’s neighbors, landlord, colleagues or friends; retrieve personal data from commercial databases; and recruit and assign informants to spy at political, religious or other meetings — all without evidence that the target of the investigation has done anything wrong.
A coalition of Islamic groups is now calling for Muslims to stop cooperating with the FBI’s efforts to work with Muslim communities to target potential terrorists.
In addition to the change in FBI guidelines allowing increased surveillance, the groups are upset that the FBI recently suspended ties with the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the government’s case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
The coalition, represented by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, has requested a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the matter.
“We have to decide what we’re doing as a country. If it’s not a war on Islam, then these practices must be stopped,” Agha Saeed, who chairs the coalition, told the AP. “We’re not asking for special treatment, just equal treatment.”
7 Comments
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 11:12 am
to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see
http://www.forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread…
to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see
http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?…
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Muslims are liars in general – their god – the rock god from pagan mecca pre-islam carried into islam by the liar Ubul Kassim called 'Mohammad' b y the Mohammedans or 'muslims.' The fact is Muslims want better treatment and they hate the constitution when compared with their own laws called the 'sheria' law which is why the muslims in America hate America. Strange way to live except it is the money in America and Europe that makes them keep their mouths shut on islam for the most part.
Look at Europe – 300 cities burned in France alone and it was 99.99 percent muslims. you speak well to speak of islamic youth until you realize the man called mohammed sexually defiled a 9 year old named “Aisha” whom he islamically married – which means at 6 – - he was 54 – - so this is marriage? what sickness has come to America?
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
What are those crazy FBI guys doing. Don't they know radical muslims hang out in churches? Besides, if muslims were cooperating with the FBI, why did they have to pay informants to get info?
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see
http://www.forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread…
to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see
http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?…
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Muslims are liars in general – their god – the rock god from pagan mecca pre-islam carried into islam by the liar Ubul Kassim called 'Mohammad' b y the Mohammedans or 'muslims.' The fact is Muslims want better treatment and they hate the constitution when compared with their own laws called the 'sheria' law which is why the muslims in America hate America. Strange way to live except it is the money in America and Europe that makes them keep their mouths shut on islam for the most part.
Look at Europe – 300 cities burned in France alone and it was 99.99 percent muslims. you speak well to speak of islamic youth until you realize the man called mohammed sexually defiled a 9 year old named “Aisha” whom he islamically married – which means at 6 – - he was 54 – - so this is marriage? what sickness has come to America?
Comment posted May 6, 2009 @ 12:44 am
What are those crazy FBI guys doing. Don't they know radical muslims hang out in churches? Besides, if muslims were cooperating with the FBI, why did they have to pay informants to get info?
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