The NYPD's 'astounding' domestic spying program

The AP reports that New York City police, with the help of the CIA, skirt domestic surveillance laws to snoop on Americans in minority neighborhoods

The Al-iman mosque in Astoria, Queens: Undercover NYPD officers called "mosque crawlers" are reportedly spying muslim communities regardless of suspected crime.
(Image credit: Emily Anne Epstein/Corbis)

It is no secret that the New York Police Department launched its own global intelligence unit after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But it's news to almost everyone that the NYPD, in close and "extraordinary" collaboration with the CIA, might have bent domestic surveillance and civil rights laws by sending undercover agents to monitor Muslim enclaves and mosque services, according to a months-long investigation by the Associated Press. Here's a look at the "astounding" NYPD "domestic CIA" operation:

What does the NYPD spy unit do?

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