CIA Ends Relationship With NYPD After Muslim Spying Row
source: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/cia-and-nypd-are-breaking-up.html
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After the Associated Press revealed an NYPD collaboration with the CIA, in which the department spied on entire Muslim neighborhoods, that relationship is ending.
An internal CIA investigation cleared the agency of wrongdoing, but decided that the CIA operative currently assigned to the NYPD intelligence unit will leave because the officer who served in that role until 2010 was "operating without sufficient supervision," The Wall Street Journal reports, while creating "spying programs that helped make the NYPD one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies."
While the identity of the current agent, who will be pulled, remains classified, Lawrence Sanchez did the job for nearly a decade after September 11, and remained on the CIA payroll from 2002 to 2004 before taking a leave of absence.
The legal justifications for the relationship between the NYPD and the CIA, as well as the spying program in general, remain murky, with the CIA pushing general terrorism-related justifications. "Context matters here," said an agency spokesperson. "The CIA stepped up cooperation with law enforcement on counterterrorism after 9/11. It's hard to imagine that anyone is suggesting this was inappropriate or unexpected."
An internal CIA investigation cleared the agency of wrongdoing, but decided that the CIA operative currently assigned to the NYPD intelligence unit will leave because the officer who served in that role until 2010 was "operating without sufficient supervision," The Wall Street Journal reports, while creating "spying programs that helped make the NYPD one of the nation's most aggressive domestic intelligence agencies."
While the identity of the current agent, who will be pulled, remains classified, Lawrence Sanchez did the job for nearly a decade after September 11, and remained on the CIA payroll from 2002 to 2004 before taking a leave of absence.
The legal justifications for the relationship between the NYPD and the CIA, as well as the spying program in general, remain murky, with the CIA pushing general terrorism-related justifications. "Context matters here," said an agency spokesperson. "The CIA stepped up cooperation with law enforcement on counterterrorism after 9/11. It's hard to imagine that anyone is suggesting this was inappropriate or unexpected."
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