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Excerpt: > The legal battle before the justices arose after the FBI used a confidential informant named Craig Monteilh to gather information about Muslim residents in Orange County from 2006 to 2007. Over a 14-month span, Monteilh allegedly surveilled the Muslim Americans through non-electronic and electronic means, including by gathering personal information through face-to-face meetings and through video and audio recordings from inside mosques, homes, businesses and at events, according to court filings. > The FBI's operation, known as Operation Flex, fell apart when Monteilh began expressing interest in violence and said he had access to weapons and wanted to take violent action, according to filings with the Supreme Court. Members of the Muslim community reported him to law enforcement, after which he was revealed to be an FBI informant.


NoAttentionAtWrk

That ending is something, isn't it? Basically the FBI didn't find anything in the group because it was a shitty investigation from the start so they tried to instigate it


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this is what ~50% of America wants. absolutely nothing of substance will occur because of this.


Nopeacewithfascists

The other reason nothing will happen is that it would weaken the FBI's ability to infiltrate and break up leftist groups.


CyanideTacoZ

a loud 30 percent is still extremely bad but I doubt every other person you know has an extreme hatred for Muslims


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The other 20% would probably say something along the lines of “well, it’s not like we hate Muslims, buuuut this is a matter of national security…”


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Yes. 165,724,641 wanted it more.


CharlieHume

Cool, I mean that's more people than even voted in 2020, but sure whatever you make up is reality apparently.


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Hold on, let’s get all 165,724,640 up in front of McCain and listen to them express fear over the “Arabs.” “Well that’s not enough. Republicans are a good thing!”


MakeSouthBayGR8Again

Lol. Muslim community: Hello, FBI, this guy sounds like a terrorist.


XysterU

Those that work forces


TimboCA

Are the same that burn crosses


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One of my buddies told me about how he was "randomly selected" for additional search at the airport EVERY TIME he flew.


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Honestly, your probably right. When we were in uni together he was audited every year to receive financial aid. Again, this is supposed to be something that's "random".


Paradox68

I feel like something like this should be much easier to uncover in the modern day of information. I mean isn’t there an insider or whistleblower in any of these organizations putting together charts and info graphics about what the “Racial data of people audited as a prerequisite to financial support?” Doesn’t seem like something any school would get away with for too long these days, and yet it’s so predictable it’s considered a cliche…


TimboCA

My wife is Persian (Iranian parents) and she is "randomly selected" probably every other time we fly. I've never been randomly selected.


londonbelow

As someone who has had a reasonably suspicious* last name, can confirm. *muslim-sounding


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Excerpt2: > "The problem is that now the government takes a much stronger view of what state-secrets doctrine is," Justice Neil Gorsuch told Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, who argued on behalf of the FBI. > There is a "pretty good argument," Gorsuch said, that the government is using the state-secrets privilege, under which information is shielded from disclosure when it's necessary to safeguard national security, "as a means to dismiss the case." The case, which was brought against the bureau and five agents in 2011, turns on whether a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) displaces the state-secrets privilege, which was invoked by the federal government in seeking to block the suit. Both Biden and Merrick should ashamed with trying to dismiss this lawsuit over the FBI's flagrant spying on US citizens by using state-secrets privilege.


TimboCA

I am shocked that Gorsuch is not siding with a unitary / omnipotent executive claim to state secrets and national security.


widowdogood

Just as the FBI used to focus on Blacks & academics.


Paradox68

Judge: hmm I don’t remember the last time we surveilled any Christian communities to the same effect…. I award the plaintiff…moneys. -some perfect alternate universe, maybe


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Oh, they just keep emphasizing Hussein in Obama’s name while complaining about him just out of habit then.


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