NYPD eyed US citizens in intel effort (news.yahoo.com)
September 22, 2011 12:00 am
The NYPD ran a secret surveillance operation broadly targeting the Moroccan community in New York City for intelligence collection, without any suspicion of wrongdoing. The program called the Moroccan Initiative was part of a larger racial mapping program that the NYPD built, with the help of the CIA, that surveys and maps First Amendment protected behavior in minority communities.
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-nypd-eyed-us-citizens-intel-effort-072807203.html
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