City Council Grills Kelly on Police Surveillance of Muslims

Gerald · 10-07-11, 08:32 AM

City Council members took aim on Thursday at the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, pointedly questioning Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly about the breadth of the force’s undercover efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. At an unusually intense hearing, several council members tried to pierce the secrecy that has largely surrounded the operations of the Intelligence Division, one of the department’s entities involved in counterterrorism investigations. “It looks like we are targeting Muslim neighborhoods and communities,” Councilman Brad Lander said. “That’s not good for us. We have people out there who are partners who feel the trust is betrayed.” The hearing, which lasted over an hour, unfolded before an audience packed with Muslim organizers, civil liberties lawyers and others, including the mother of a Queens man serving a 30-year prison sentence for plotting an attack at the Herald Square subway station in 2004. The questioning revolved mostly around a series of recent articles by The Associated Press examining the department’s focus on Muslim communities in the New York metropolitan area and efforts to identify “hot spots,” like mosques and other gathering places.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/ny...1&ref=nyregion

Note: October 6, 2011

JU_88 · 10-07-11, 10:34 AM

Why do they spy on Muslims? In case they mastermind another 9/11?
they were already spying on the 'Muslims' who carried out 9/11, still happened though

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Osmium Steele · 10-07-11, 11:10 AM

Well, where are we supposed to look for concentrations of arab muslim residents of NYC possibly plotting a new terror attack on our fair city? Central Park West?

August · 10-07-11, 11:16 AM

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...an audience packed with Muslim organizers, civil liberties lawyers and others, including the mother of a Queens man serving a 30-year prison sentence for plotting an attack at the Herald Square subway station in 2004.

So the rats are complaining about the effectiveness of the cats?

Jimbuna · 10-08-11, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by August

So the rats are complaining about the effectiveness of the cats?

LOL

TLAM Strike · 10-08-11, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by August

So the rats are complaining about the effectiveness of the cats?

Yep.

Even old Joe McCarthy nabbed a few real communist spies. Hunting down an internal enemy never makes you popular but it needs to be done.

_dgn_ · 10-10-11, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by August

So the rats are complaining about the effectiveness of the cats?

Totally right about this point, August !

But just a problem, the cats were already infiltrated by the enemy ...

Cheers.

Gerald · 10-08-11, 11:45 AM

Specialisations in interceptions, has occurred with many different groups that can be associated with activity, which endangers the national security level, and that means not only Muslims.

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	City Council Grills Kelly on Police Surveillance of Muslims City Council members took aim on Thursday at the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, pointedly questioning Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly about the breadth of the force’s undercover efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. At an unusually intense hearing, several council members tried to pierce the secrecy that has largely surrounded the operations of the Intelligence Division, one of the department’s entities involved in counterterrorism investigations. “It looks like we are targeting Muslim neighborhoods and communities,” Councilman Brad Lander said. “That’s not good for us. We have people out there who are partners who feel the trust is betrayed.” The hearing, which lasted over an hour, unfolded before an audience packed with Muslim organizers, civil liberties lawyers and others, including the mother of a Queens man serving a 30-year prison sentence for plotting an attack at the Herald Square subway station in 2004. The questioning revolved mostly around a series of recent articles by The Associated Press examining the department’s focus on Muslim communities in the New York metropolitan area and efforts to identify “hot spots,” like mosques and other gathering places. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/ny...1&ref=nyregion Note: October 6, 2011 __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Specialisations in interceptions, has occurred with many different groups that can be associated with activity, which endangers the national security level, and that means not only Muslims. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,803 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Why do they spy on Muslims? In case they mastermind another 9/11? they were already spying on the 'Muslims' who carried out 9/11, still happened though .