Publication Date:
Tue, 2011-09-13 21:10
The CIA’s new director, David Petraeus, said the agency’s inspector general began investigating before he took office just over a week ago. The agency’s unprecedented cooperation with the police department was the subject of an eight-month investigation by The Associated Press.
At a congressional hearing Tuesday, Petraeus said there is a CIA adviser at the department and the CIA wants “to make sure we are doing the right thing.”
The AP found that the police department had dispatched undercover officers into ethnic communities to monitor daily life and scrutinized more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in the years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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