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September 14, 2011
The CIA has launched an internal probe into whether its ties with the NYPD have amounted to illegal “domestic spying” in Muslims communities that violated civil liberties.
A Muslim civil liberties organization last month called for the investigation after a report that the agency was helping cops target mosques and minority neighborhoods to drum up intelligence.
A CIA analyst is embedded with the NYPD, but no one from the agency was “out on the street collecting” intelligence, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a congressional hearing on Tuesday. Still, Clapper conceded that the CIA probably shouldn’t be involved with local law enforcement.
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“It’s my personal view that that’s not a good optic to have CIA involved in any city-level police department,” Clapper said. He added that the investigation, which is being conducted by the agency’s inspector general, would “look into specifically the propriety of that.”
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