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The New York City Police Department's adoption of surveillance guidelines
issued last year by Attorney General John Ashcroft has convinced a federal
district judge to modify a long-standing court order that had restricted the
department's ability to gather intelligence on political groups.

     Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. handed down his ruling on Feb. 12, saying
that he had been convinced by an affidavit submitted in January by David
Cohen, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for intelligence. Cohen, a former CIA
official, said that he believed the force could investigate terrorism under
Ashcroft's guidelines. Cohen also laid out for Haight the "changed
circumstances" that warranted the modification. Islamic institutes and
mosques in the United States, he wrote, had become increasingly radicalized,
yet they hid behind the First Amendment, beyond the reach of law
enforcement.

 

 

 


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