NEWARK, N.J. — The report was stamped top secret. Inside was a confidential dossier compiled by the New York Police Department documenting “locations of concern” in Newark — the city’s 44 mosques, Muslim-owned restaurants and businesses and Islamic schools. In 2007, the NYPD began an undercover spy operation within New Jersey’s largest city to find…
NEW YORK — A New York City councilman is calling for the creation of an inspector general’s office to oversee the police department. Two lawyers with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University called Monday for such an office in a New York Times opinion piece. Democratic City Councilman Brad Lander echoed them…
NEW YORK — The CIA officer working as a special assistant to the New York Police Department’s top intelligence officer will leave his post in April after nine months, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Friday. The department was notified of the planned departure in November, just weeks after the completion of an internal investigation into…
Dec 21, 2011–Washington — More than two dozen members of Congress are calling for investigation into the CIA’s relationship with the New York Police Department. The members of Congress want to know more about the CIA’s collaboration with the police department to monitor Muslims after an Associated Press investigation. A letter signed by 34 members…
December 23—Washington — The CIA says its inspector general has found nothing wrong with the spy agency’s close partnership with the New York Police Department. The inspector general concluded that no laws were broken and there was no evidence the CIA was conducting domestic spying. The inspector general decided to do a preliminary investigation after…
