Originally published in The Boston Globe on March 5, 2012.
By Juliette Kayyem
THE UNITED States’ efforts to kill Osama bin Laden were rightfully kept secret from the Pakistanis. Only government incompetence or collusion could explain bin Laden’s uninterrupted presence there. The Pakistanis could not be trusted.
Of all the recent disclosures, reported by the Associated Press, regarding the New York Police Department’s sweeping and secret surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods and citizens by their “Demographics Unit,’’ the most telling is that the NYPD failed to notify New Jersey officials that cops were trolling there too. That omission suggests why the demographics program is less about good law enforcement and more about the NYPD’s thinking.
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