A new book published this month, award-winning AP reporting team Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman lay out in the most complete detail yet how the NYPD created programs to infiltrate and surveil Muslim communities, mosques, student groups and political organizations following 9/11. Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit. One of the most startling revelations in the book is “terrorism enterprise investigation” (TEI) classification, which allows for an entire mosque to be investigated as a terrorist organization. You quote a former NYPD official who actually says, “a mosque is different than a church or temple.” What was the thinking behind this policy? The NYPD talks a lot about how this is all legal, and that’s just never been an issue for us. The reason being: They said waterboarding was legal. Nobody is going to jail for waterboarding. We see what’s going on at the NYPD as the same sort of thing. It’s a tactic that came from 9/11 that we would not have allowed pre-9/11, that we do allow now. And the fact that it is legal is more about where we’ve come as a country. We’re a country that allowed waterboarding and indefinite detention, and we’re a country where the NYPD Intelligence Division has police files on what Muslims think of the State of the Union address. muslimvillage/2013/09/30/43660/enemies-within-inside-the-nypds-muslim-spying/
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 03:45:57 +0000
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