(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says it has not broken any laws in helping the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to spy on American Muslims.
The CIA said on Friday that its inspector general had found that no laws had been broken and there had been “no evidence that any part of the agency's support to the NYPD constituted domestic spying.”
An investigation carried out by the Associated Press has found that, after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, the NYPD dispatched undercover officers, known as 'rakers,' into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program, using 'unprecedented' help from the CIA.
This is while the CIA is banned from spying on the US citizens.
The investigation showed that the 'rakers' have gathered information on the citizens' 'daily life in bookstores, bars, cafes, and nightclubs.'
The report added that the NYPD has employed intelligence agents, known as 'mosque crawlers,' to spy on Muslims and “monitor sermons, even when there's no evidence of wrongdoing.”
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is the United States government official subject to the authority, direction and control of the President, who is responsible under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 for:
The revelations forced the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James R. Clapper to admit that it did not look good for the CIA to be involved with any city police department.
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23 December 2011 - 20:30
News ID: 285980
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says it has not broken any laws in helping the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to spy on American Muslims.
