LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to disclose information about its questioning of Arab Americans and Muslims in the agency's drive to thwart any pre-election attack.
In its lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, the civil rights advocacy group said it had received reports that numerous individuals had been "interrogated" by the FBI since the summer "solely because they are Muslims or of Middle Eastern descent."
An FBI representative in Washington could not be immediately reached for comment. The agency has previously said it was seeking to reassure Arab and Muslim groups that it was not discriminating against them.
The ACLU said much of the investigation was being done by members of Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which include members of state and local police working with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
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