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FBI justifies informant use despite complaints

By Richard Binder

Yesterday FBI Director Robert Mueller defended the agency's use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists.

"We don't investigate places, we investigate individuals," Mueller said during a brief meeting with reporters in Los Angeles.

Mueller's comments came just days after a Michigan Muslim organization asked the Justice Department to investigate complaints that the FBI is asking the faithful to spy on Islamic leaders and worshippers. Similar alarm followed the disclosure earlier this year that the FBI planted a spy in Southern California mosques.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).