(Courthouse News) Wading into a decade-old class action, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to look at the FBI’s use of an informant to collect information from several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques for more than a year.
The FBI petitioned the high court to take up the case last year, saying it raises “exceptionally important questions” regarding the executive branch’s responsibility to protect national security.
For the Council on American-Islamic Relations, however, it is the reason why this case was filed that is important to remember as it heads to high court.
“The FBI infiltrated several mosques in Southern California, planted informants, and targeted Muslim Americans for illegal spying solely because of their religion,” Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR Los Angeles, said in a statement Monday.
