(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A class action lawsuit has been levelled against the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Leading US Muslim organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has joined with the American Civil Liberties Union to file suit in a California court.
It has been alleged the FBI and seven of its employees violated the first amendment rights of hundreds of Muslims by monitoring individuals and recording conversations in several California mosques.
The lawsuit claims the FBI was fishing for “potential terrorists.”
The ACLU of Southern California has said the FBI should have been investigating actual threats instead of spying Americans worshiping at mosques.
It is alleged that the FBI collected personal information on thousands of Muslim Americans, gathering hundreds of phone numbers, thousands of e-mail addresses and hundreds of hours of video recordings.
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