Matt Apuzzo the co-author of Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America: explained the roots of the NYPD’s spying program targeting Muslim communities across the city, the link between the CIA and domestic spying, how the NYPD spying unit operated without oversight,the Handschu case, how all Muslims became suspects in NYC, the most serious recent terrorist plot against NYC, what really works in counter terrorism and the structural threats to civil liberties posed by domestic surveillance.

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