Recent news has broken of the CIA and FBI working closely with NYPD officials on the monitoring and tracking of citizens.. Like other NYPD intelligence programs created in the past decade, this new one of keeping a listing of Muslims who change names involved monitoring behavior protected by the First Amendment...
The most recent news was published by the Associated Press. The AP report says this other piece of information in its runs of the story:
'Early on, police added people with American names to the list so that if details of the program ever leaked out, the department would not be accused of profiling, according to one person briefed on the program'The new AP info doesn't leave much of a question on profiling given the circumstances of the allegations.