The U.S. has been side-swiped by a robust wave of political
correctness, so it may be tough to believe that the nation’s Attorney
General actually authorizes federal agents to engage in “limited racial
and ethnic profiling” when conducting assessments of criminal and
terrorist threats.
It’s probably something the Obama administration would prefer to keep
quiet so as not to upset or alienate the president’s liberal base, but
evidently it’s considered a valuable homeland security tool. Otherwise,
why would this, the most leftist and politically correct administration
of modern times, allow it to continue? Furthermore, why would the Obama
Justice Department engage in a legal battle to make sure details of the
“FBI’s use of ethnic and racial data” are kept secret?
The authorized racial and ethnic profiling began after the 9/11 Commission report determined
that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) should be restructured
to be the domestic equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
That included overhauling the FBI and revising its internal manual,
known as the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG). Among
the manual’s revisions was permission for FBI agents to engage in
limited racial and ethnic profiling when conducting proactive
assessments of criminal and terrorist threats.
Specifically, the DIOG allows FBI agents to identify and map
“locations of concentrated ethnic communities” if doing so would
“reasonably aid the analysis of potential threats and vulnerabilities”
and “assist domain awareness for the purpose of performing intelligence
analysis.” The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asserted this would
encourage unlawful racial profiling and took the administration to
court to obtain internal documents about the FBI’s use of ethnic and
racial data.
As is often the case when a group or individual seeks government
records, the FBI turned over some files, would neither confirm nor deny
having a portion of the records and refused to provide a large stash. A
federal judge ruled in favor of the government’s right to withhold
hundreds of pages of documents and the ACLU appealed, determined to
expose the administration’s racial profiling initiative.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected the ACLU’s
argument, ruling last week that the FBI has the right to protect the
information
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
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