From the NYTimes.com:
by Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein
The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped, the department said.
The decision by the nation’s largest police force to shutter the surveillance program represents the first sign that William J. Bratton, the department’s new commissioner, is backing away from some of the post-9/11 intelligence-gathering practices of his predecessor. The move comes as the federal government reconsiders and re-evaluates some of its post-9/11 policies, including the National Security Agency’s bulk data collection.
In the meantime, while NYPD abandons surveillance on Muslims, the entire federal government expands surveillance on lawful Americans.
Does that even matter?
BZ
The whole thing started when an immigrant was elected to office of the President. It set a precedence that I’m not sure how we alleviate.
I take it you mean an immigrant Muslim.
Since they have found exactly zero terrorists, this is probably a good call.
While we’re on the topic, how about disbanding TSA? Maybe Homeland Security?
BZ
HAHA. If you are looking for me to argue against that idea, you are looking at the wrong guy. And don’t stop there. Disband Headstart, USAID, Peace Corps, Americorps, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, and the US Senate too.