If the ACLU (along with the rest of the left) had their way, FBI agents would be attending Tea Party rallies looking for the elusive “right-wing extremist.”
Via Daily Caller:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a “mosque outreach” program to compile information on American Muslim organizations and “their constitutionally-protected beliefs and activities, without any suspicion of wrongdoing,” according to documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union.
According to the ACLU, documents show that the FBI categorized First Amendment-protected and other “innocuous activities” as “positive intelligence” and shared it with other government agencies. Mosque-goers interviewed by FBI agents were not informed that what they said would be collected as intelligence, recorded and disseminated.
The ACLU previously revealed that the FBI had turned past “community outreach” programs into domestic spying and intelligence gathering operations. The organization believes the “mosque outreach” program was active between 2004 and 2008.
The FBI “wrongly and unfairly cast a cloud of suspicion over innocent groups and individuals based on their religious beliefs and associations,” says the ACLU, “and placed them at risk of greater law enforcement scrutiny as potential national security threats.”