Supreme Court to hear case involving FBI surveillance of Muslim community in California
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear a bid from the FBI involving the post-9/11 surveillance of three Muslim men from California who allege the federal government covertly gathered information about them based on their religion.
The FBI appealed to the Supreme Court after a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said claims brought by the men in 2011 can proceed. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court in its next term, which begins in October, and is the second involving the so-called state secrets privilege the justices will decide. The dispute arose from the FBI's use of a confidential informant from 2006 to 2007 to infiltrate the Muslim community in Orange County, California, and secretly collect information about its members, including names, phone numbers and emails. The operation lasted for more than a year, but fell apart when the informant, Craig Monteilh, made statements about inciting violence, which led members of the Islamic community to report him to law enforcement, according to filings with the Supreme Court.
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