Muslim coalition calls for investigation of alleged NYPD surveillance

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Source: CNN

New York (CNN) -- New York-area Muslims and civil liberties advocates called Wednesday for investigations and hearings after a report said that in the years since the 9-11 attacks, city police have carried out covert surveillance on Muslims with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency.

"We need the (New York) City Council to hold hearings and to investigate these revelations," said Ramzi Kassem, an associate professor of law at the City University of New York. He supervises CUNY's Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project, which aims to meet the legal needs of New York City Muslims affected by counterterrorism policies.

"We need the comptroller's office to audit the NYPD and figure out how much of New Yorkers' taxpayer dollars are going towards this rogue program, and we need the federal government to look into what are quite possibly very grave breaches of federal law," Kassem said.

Kassem was one of several speakers at a news conference at the Manhattan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held in response to the published report.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/new.york.muslims.nypd/index.html

[Arctic Dave]

1. Sounds like something out of oppressive country. Hey wait a second...

Have we been the pot calling the kettle black? Sounds like we aren't as "free" as we think.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R n/t

[saras]

3. They're trying to make "liberal Muslim" an oxymoron

If they're serious about going after terrorism, why don't they go after the system that keeps turning out http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right">these people (list courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center).