U.S. Department of Justice Continues to Cloak Public Access to Guidelines on FBI Surveillance

UPDATED January 20, 2010

Muslim Advocates files amended complaint in federal court to protect religious freedom

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA) October 15, 2009---- After a lawsuit filed by Muslim Advocates--a national legal advocacy and educational organization--the U.S. Department of Justice released a heavily redacted version of the FBI's Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines (DIOGs), which sanction racial and religious profiling of law-abiding Americans and infiltration of mosques and other religious and political gatherings. In response, late yesterday, Muslim Advocates filed an amended complaint, asserting that critical passages on gathering data on racial and religious communities and mosque infiltration in the DIOGs were redacted, and need to be made public.

View the disclosed version of the redacted Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines:

DIOGs Part I
DIOGs Part II
DIOGs Part III
DIOGs Part IV

View specific sections in the DIOGs that address ethnic geo-mapping of communities and the use of 'undisclosed participants' (agent provocateurs) to spy on communities and congregations

Click here for Muslim Advocates full press release.

Click here for a copy of the complaint.

Politico, the Washington, DC daily blog/newspaper, has been following the suit and the FBI's response. The Christian Science Monitor considers Muslim Advocates' suit as it relates to FBI surveillance in the ongoing Najibullah Zazi case in Denver and New York.

Muslim Advocates Issues Advisory for Travelers Under New TSA Rule

(SAN FRANCISCO) January 8, 2010--Muslim Advocates issued a legal advisory today for those traveling through any of the 14 nations listed under a new rule announced by the Transportation Security Administration on January 4, 2010.