About this episode

The episode discusses the legacy of Robert Muller and the FBI's actions post-9/11 regarding surveillance of Muslim communities.

Former FBI Director Robert Muller died on March 20th. He entered into that position on September 4th, 2001. Within eight weeks of the 9/11 attacks, the FBI had arrested over 1,200 people - mostly Muslim men in the United States. None of them were shown to have any connection to Al Qaeda, but that didn’t deter the FBI and its partners in local law enforcement agencies like the NYPD from heightening their surveillance of Muslim communities, even sending informants into mosques. All of this was...

Topics covered

• FBI
• surveillance
• Muslim communities
• 9/11
• Robert Muller
• law enforcement
• civil rights

Keywords

• Robert Muller
• FBI
• surveillance
• 9/11
• Muslim communities
• law enforcement
• civil rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI, NYPD

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