The Justice Department is considering allowing the FBI to use racial and religious profiling when looking for terrorists. Apparently, they would be able to investigate anyone who fit the “profile,” including if they were Arab or Muslim, without just cause.
The Justice Department is considering establishing a new policy that would allow the FBI to target Americans for investigation even in the absence of evidence or other compelling indications that the person was breaking a law, according to the Associated Press.
The policy, being considered as part of the attorney general’s guidelines to the FBI, would allow the agency to conduct racial profiling — potentially singling out Muslim- and Arab-Americans — and to open preliminary terrorism investigations against targets simply on the basis of patterns established through data mining public records and other information.
The agency would be allowed to profile targets based on their race and activities, such as travel to the Middle East or any other part of the world associated with terrorism. But race would be only one factor in the decision to open an investigation. [Full story]
Isn’t it wonderful how our government works to protect and promote the ideals this country was supposedly “founded on” for ALL American citizens? /sarcasm
