The faculty voted to condemn the nefarious collaboration because, according to the resolution they drafted, the “cultivation of police informers on campus has a chilling effect on the intellectual freedom necessary for a vibrant academic community.” It’s also highly illegal for the CIA to spy on its citizens, even if those citizens happen to practice Islam. (Photo: Aleks V/flickr)

The main legal issue here is that it’s against the law to spy on any U.S. citizen. Obama’s counterterrorism advisor, John Brennan, has said that they haven’t done that. But having mosque crawlers and informants who just hang out in mosques, sounds like just that.

The U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper said this week, “It’s my own personal view that that’s not a good optic, to have CIA involved in any city-level police department. But I think CIA is going to address that.” Yeah its not a good optic, because its illegal for the country to spy on its own citizens.

An investigative article from the AP this week showed that the NYPD has “trolled ethnic neighborhoods” and has kept close ties with the CIA.

Today, Mayor Bloomberg defended their tactics, while Police Commissioner Ray Kelly confirmed that an intelligence agent is working out of One Police Plaza. Kelly also added that Muslim leaders “are absolutely appreciative of the unprecedented relationship with the police department.”

But what they’re doing at home is a lot scarier than just having friends in faraway places.

Puzzo describes the task force known as rakers. Emphasis ours:

“They have teams of undercover officers, they’re known as rakers, who basically just troll ethnic neighborhoods. One officer described it as mapping the human terrain of New York. They also have informants known as mosque crawlers, who as the name indicates, just sort of hang out in mosques, being the eyes and ears of the police department inside the mosques.”

All of the New Yorkers interviewed in the piece said that they were okay with the NYPD’s controversial efforts if they kept NY safe. We’re guessing those people weren’t the ones who had their religious spaces infiltrated by secret police.

The sculpture is currently roosting outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, mocking them mysteriously. It says something about something invisible and important hidden somewhere. Find out what before it’s lost forever. “I don’t have that many decades… left in me,” Sanborn said.

They were then subjected to “enhanced interrogation” methods in various secret prisons in other countries. They were specifically moved from Guantanamo to keep them from getting all lawyered up by the Supreme Court or for that matter, their very existence acknowledged. More real life renditions here.

“Operation Northwoods, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.”

Think about that next time you shoot down theories about WTC’s 1, 2, and 7. Happy 9/11!