What's the CIA doing at NYPD? Depends whom you ask

[kas125]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three months ago, one of the CIA's most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees.

Exactly what he's doing there, however, is much less clear.

Since The Associated Press revealed the assignment in August, federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why this CIA officer — a seasoned operative who handled foreign agents and ran complex operations in Jordan and Pakistan — was assigned to a municipal police department. The CIA is prohibited from spying domestically, and its unusual partnership with the NYPD has troubled top lawmakers and prompted an internal investigation.

His role is important because the last time a CIA officer worked so closely with the NYPD, beginning in the months after the 9/11 attacks, he became the architect of aggressive police programs that monitored Muslim neighborhoods. With the earlier help from this CIA official, the police put entire communities under the microscope based on ethnicity rather allegations of wrongdoing, according to the AP investigation.

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http://news.yahoo.com/whats-cia-doing-nypd-depends-whom-ask-073510053.html

[GliderGuider]

1. Things that make you say "Hmmmm....." /nt

[Bennyboy]

2. Page not found

Goes to yahoo but then not found

[TygrBright]

3. It worked fine for me. n/t

[kas125]

4. It works for me. Maybe it was one of those temporary things. n/t

[Rebubula]

5. NYPD

They have had a covert intel group for at least a decade now.

Nothing new.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Obviously field testing the effects of new

methods/techniques/toys/social experiments in a real-world environment...Gives me chills to even think about it