NYPD, under fire, to end CIA collaboration program

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The New York Police Department, under fire from New York City Muslims, has announced that is ending its program of NYPD-CIA collaborationlaunched after 9-11. Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the CIA officer working as a special assistant to the department’s intelligence program will leave his post in April after nine months. The program has been under scrutiny since it was revealed in a series of stories by the Associated Press, prompting the CIA’s own Inspector General to conduct an investigation. The Inspector General’s probe found there was insufficient oversight of the program, which included sending plainclothes “rakers” into mosques and Muslim communities. Muslims not suspected of any wrongdoing were put in intelligence databases.

The CIA officer apparently on loan to the NYPD, Lawrence Sanchez, is an agency veteran who spent 15 years overseas in the Middle East, South Asia and ex-Soviet republics. Working with the NYPD while on the CIA payroll from 2002 to 2004, he later formally joined the NYPD while on a leave of absence from the CIA. But in addition to ambiguity as to who he was actually answerable (the cops or “The Company”?), it also appears there were two CIA guys loaned to the NYPD—and the second, unnamed one is the one now getting the boot. Writes AP, Jan. 27:

Sanchez left the NYPD in 2010. Then, last July, the CIA sent one of its most senior clandestine operatives to work out of the NYPD. That’s the officer who now is leaving.

Not exactly crystal clarity as to what is going on here, even now that the collaboration has been “exposed” and “investigated.” But it sure smells bad—with a nasty undertone of deja vu for past anti-immigrant scares and dirty tricks campaigns in US history. Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid of the Islamic Leadership Council of New York told AP: “We the people find ourselves facing the specter of a 21st century COINTELPRO, once again in the name of safety and security.”

The CIA collaboration program is officially ending as calls mount for Kelly to resign over his role in the lugubrious propaganda film The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America. Even amid all the outrage, Kelly’s name is still the first one listed under “Featured Interviews” on the film’s official website. And it was notoriously used for internal NYPD indoctrination. From the New York Times, Jan. 28

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Friday that “The Third Jihad,” a film depicting many American Muslim leaders as extremists, “should not have been shown” to New York City officers. The New York Times disclosed that at least 1,489 police officers had seen it. The film was played on a loop for officers during 2010 in a waiting area outside a counterterrorism training course, Mr. Kelly said. He placed responsibility for the decision to show the film on a sergeant, whom Mr. Kelly did not identify.

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