"The Associated Press has a big story this morning about the New York
Police Department's Constitution-shredding surveillance of the city's
Muslims. Here's the opening:
'A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence
unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying incriminating things
as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and
collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam,
he told The Associated Press. ...'"
http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/23/how-cops-create-and-capture-terror-talk
"... If you were wondering why the NYPD's spy-on-the-Muslims program
failed to produce useful leads, you now have part of the answer."