2 Sep, 2011
Welcome to dragnet surveillance – 9/11 – Salon.com
There was little surprising about recent revelations of the New York City Police Department’s program, developed in secret with the aid of CIA officials, to collect swaths of information about the city’s 800,000-strong Muslim population.
The story illustrates that government surveillance of innocent law-abiding Americans is not an emergency measure undertaken after 9/11 and subsequently curtailed. Instead, both federal and local law enforcement agencies have developed sophisticated and far-reaching intelligence-collection operations to gather data about America’s minority communities, and other groups, regardless of whether there is any reason to suspect criminal or terrorist activity.
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