How dare the FBI try and keep the country safe from Islamic terrorism.
Via TPM:
The Justice Department’s Inspector General should look into allegations that the FBI used the “guise” of outreach to Muslim communities to investigate various organizations, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a letter Thursday.
ACLU officials wrote that the FBI “has improperly targeted American Muslims and Americans of Arab, Middle Eastern, and South Asian descent, and their religious, community, cultural, and student organizations, and that it has violated the Privacy Act by recording and disseminating as intelligence, information about these innocent Americans’ First Amendment-protected speech and activities.”
The ACLU’s allegations are based on FBI memos they received from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.