NYPD/CIA racially profiled innocent U.S. citizens in intelligence effort
The AP is continuing its excellent investigative series on the joint NYPD/CIA's "Demographic Unit," which operates in the northeast and targets the Muslim community in a supposed anti-terrorism effort, with a new report on the profiling of innocent A...
FBI says no more anti-Muslim training, but the problem runs deep
At the end of last week, the FBI made clear that they had ended their anti-Muslim training program, saying "that the agency did host one training session six months ago that described Muslims as more likely to be violent as they increased in devotion...
FBI says it pulled anti-Muslim training materials
WIRED's Spencer Ackerman broke a story yesterday on the anti-Muslim training materials the FBI used to train intelligence units. According to the FBI, the agency has pulled the training.
The FBI on Thursday said it had stopped a training session that...
FBI trains agents with ineffective, anti-Muslim materials
This should have ended under Attorney General Eric Holder's watch. WIRED's Spencer Ackerman:
The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohamme...
Paranoia and racial profiling put Midwestern blogger in cuffs on 9/11
Detroit airport (Derek KT W)
If you read nothing but the headlines on the AP article, you get the idea that police were doing these folks a favor: No charges filed against three detained at Detroit airport. See? No harm, no foul. In fact, the AP artic...
AP poll: Scan my body, not my email
POLITICO notes an interesting finding in a new AP poll exploring national security and civil liberties concerns for Americans a decade after 9/11. That finding:
Americans don’t want the government snooping on their phone calls and emails, but a major...
A decade of unprecedented domestic surveillance under scrutiny
Seven of the members of the 9/11 Commission are arguing that the nation is still vulnerable a decade after the attacks.
“We are safer but we are not as secure yet as we can or should be,” Chairman Thomas Kean told the Bipartisan Policy Center (BP...
