Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
I think they likely have a very good idea of what is considered to be legal and what is not. As the article pointed out, CAIR has already asked the Justice Department to investigate any wrongdoing.I don't think it really matters what they think... blame it on the 112th Congress.
Huff Post: NYPD: CIA Officer Works At Department (VIDEO)
On Wednesday, the Justice Department said it will review a request by a Muslim advocacy group to investigate.
"These revelations send the message to American Muslims that they are being viewed as a suspect community and that their constitutional rights may be violated with impunity," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which asked for the investigation. "The Justice Department must initiate an immediate investigation of the civil rights implications of this spy program and the legality of its links to the CIA."
Some Muslim community leaders in New York aren't satisfied. They have complained about aggressive tactics the department uses to collect intelligence and about a video, "The Third Jihad," shown earlier this year to some members of the NYPD during a training session. Kelly, the police commissioner, explained in a letter in March that the film was not part of the department's training program and said it was shown in the background while members of the NYPD were filling out administrative paperwork before a training session.
The video includes images of terror attacks, Osama bin Laden and U.S. Muslim leaders praising the 2001 hijackers, news reports about terror plots and experts talking about the threat of radical Islam. Muslim leaders were outraged by the film because they said it was anti-Islam.
"The NYPD's use of certain intelligence tactics in houses of worship – such as paid informants, agent provocateurs and mosque surveillance – are not only misleading as security measures but compromise the duty of the law enforcement acting under the color of state law," Muslim community leader Aisha Al-Adawiya wrote in a July 22 letter to Kelly.
Abridged version of The Third Jihad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Jihad
It is just more fear mongering, and this time it is ironically being done by an American Muslim doctor.James Davis, an evangelical Christian and the Religion reporter for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, said the documentary takes "the same track taken by the Red Scare purveyors in the 1950s and by church leaders talking about the "new age" in the 1980s." [12]
[edit]NYPD controversy
There has been a controversy over the use of the video, which some have criticized as anti-Muslim, in required counter-terrorism training courses by the New York City Police Department. The Voice reported that an outside consulting film was responsible for bringing "The Third Jihad" into the NYPD, but the consultant was not identified. One cop who saw the movie at the training facility said: "After it was over, I was thinking, 'What was that? It was so ridiculously one-sided. It just made Muslims look like the enemy. It was straight propaganda". [13]
Deputy NYPD commissioner Paul Browne, who initially told the Voice that the film had never been shown to officers, was reported to have said after the disclosure that it was a "wacky movie" that should never have been shown to officers. "It was reviewed and found to be inappropriate," he said. However, Browne revised his statement and said the film was shown "a couple of times when officers were filling out paperwork before the actual coursework began". However, The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the movie's primary targets, says it received a complaint from a police cadet about the film last summer, suggesting it may have been shown much more frequently, and for a longer period, than the NYPD claims. [13][14][15]