ANTISEC: FBI Drops OWS Ball!! LOL. To Eric Holder: Stop Lying About The PATRIOT Act. To Eric Holder: Stop Lying About The PATRIOT Act Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been blowing the whistle: Law enforcement is using a secret interpretation of the PATRIOT Act to spy on people who aren't connected with terrorism.
The FBI operates under a cloak of secrecy, so we only know about this because these two courageous senators are defying the intelligence agencies and speaking out. Here's the New York Times: Mr. Wyden and Mr. Wyden and Udall deserve our support. PETITION TO ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: Stop misleading the public. Just fill out the form at right to sign the petition and send an email to Holder. Here's Wired's article on what the FBI might be up to. The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot - FBI.
FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”
At the Bureau’s training ground in Quantico, Virginia, agents are shown a chart contending that the more “devout” a Muslim, the more likely he is to be “violent.” Those destructive tendencies cannot be reversed, an FBI instructional presentation adds: “Any war against non-believers is justified” under Muslim law; a “moderating process cannot happen if the Koran continues to be regarded as the unalterable word of Allah.”
These are excerpts from dozens of pages of recent FBI training material on Islam that Danger Room has acquired. In them, the Constitutionally protected religious faith of millions of Americans is portrayed as an indicator of terrorist activity. But these documents aren’t relics from an earlier era. Maddow: Is a World Net Daily crank writing training manuals for the FBI? Rachel Maddow hosted Wired magazine reporter Spencer Ackerman on last night’s show.
Ackerman has uncovered evidence that a “World Net Daily” writer has been writing wildly racist and inflammatory training materials used in the briefing of senior counter-terrorism agents at the FBI. World Net Daily is an extreme right-wing website that is one of the last bastions of “Birtherism” on the net. The organization has paid for billboards and sign-toting airplanes that demand to know “WHERE’S THE REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE?” In all caps, of course, as Rachel says, like those emails from your racist uncle. Wired.com has acquired a trove of “disturbing” documents from sources inside the FBI in which Islam is depicted as a cult and which describe the mindset of Islam’s spiritual leader Mohammed as “a source for terrorism”.
Watch the clip, embedded via MSNBC, below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy. Muslim Groups: FBI Response to Islamophobia Scandal Not Good Enough. After reports emerged last week that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism training included materials that depicted Muslims as inherently radical and violent, the bureau moved quickly to reach out to a number American Muslim groups in an effort to smooth over relations.
FBI officials promised to take the problem seriously and vowed to conduct an internal review of the materials, which included assertions that mainstream American Muslims were sympathetic to terrorism and that the more devout a Muslim is, the more likely he is to be violent. "There was acknowledgement that what happened is wrong and what happens needs to be addressed immediately," says Abed Ayoub, the legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). "It was a good first step in rectifying this. " But Ayoub and other Arab and Muslim leaders add that more still needs to be done to repair the damage caused by the FBI's offensive training materials.