Friday, December 23, 2011

NYPD's Spying Programs Produced Mixed Results

NYPD's Spying Programs Produced Mixed Results

NEW YORK -- When New York undercover officers and informants were infiltrating a mosque in Queens in 2006, they failed to notice the increasingly radical sentiments of a young man who prayed there. Police also kept tabs on a Muslim student group at Queens College, but missed a member's growing anti-Americanism.

Those two men, Najibullah Zazi at the mosque and Adis Medunjanin at the school, would go on to be accused of plotting a subway bombing that officials have called the most serious terrorist threat to the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

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NYPD's Spying Programs Produced Mixed Results
The Huffington Post News Editors
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:39:47 GMT

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