AP: The NYPD spied on its anti-terror partners

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by Lizzy Ratner on October 6, 2011

The Associated Press has published yet another stunning expose about the long and sinister reach of the New York Police Department's COINTELPRO-style mosque surveillance program. After breaking the news that the NYPD has teamed up the CIA to spy on Muslims in and around New York City, that it created a secret Demographics Unit to oversee spying and hired "mosque crawlers" to infiltrate and "rakers" to eavesdrop, the AP now tells us that many of the people who were spied on thought they were working with the city to fight terrorism.

From the Associated Press:

Reda Shata considered himself a partner in New York's fight against terrorism. He cooperated with the police and FBI, invited officers to his mosque for breakfast, even dined with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Despite the handshakes and photo ops, however, the New York Police Department was all the while watching the Egyptian sheik. Even as Shata's story was splashed across the front page of The New York Times in a Pulitzer Prize-winning series about Muslims in America, an undercover officer and an informant were assigned to monitor him, and two others kept tabs on his mosque that same year.

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/ap-the-nypd-spied-on-its-anti-terror-partners.html

[PETRUS]

1. Weirder and weirder. K&R nt