Trump urged to enact Muslim surveillance program to prevent Islamic terrorism: ‘We can’t worry about political correctness,’ says GOP congressman
Peter King encouraged the president-elect to approve a mass surveillance program that keeps tabs on Muslims to combat terrorism
King says he urged Donald Trump to take a ‘more leaning forward’ approach to fighting Islamic terrorism
‘I suggested a program similar to what Commissioner Kelly did here in New York,’ he said; King claimed that program was ‘very effective for stopping terrorism’
The head of NYPD’s intelligence division said it ‘never’ teed off an investigation in a 2011 court hearing; other intelligence officials said it was useful
Trump initially said he’d bar non-American Muslims from entering the country; he also said he’d create a registry to track Muslims in the country
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent
DailyMail.com
16 December 2016
Republican Congressman Peter King encouraged the president-elect to approve a mass surveillance program that keeps tabs on Muslims to combat terrorism.
King said Thursday the he urged Donald Trump to take a ‘more leaning forward’ approach to fighting Islamic terrorism.
‘I suggested a program similar to what Commissioner Kelly did here in New York, and that we can’t worry about political correctness,’ King, a New York representative said.
The spying program was ‘very effective for stopping terrorism,’ he claimed, and ‘should be a model for the country.’
For half a decade the New York City Police Department spied on Muslims in mosques and their communities through a secret demographics unit authorized by Commissioner Ray Kelly that ‘never’ teed off an investigation, according to a court statement.
Muslim and civil liberties groups sued the city after Associated Press exposed the spying program in a series of articles in 2011.
A federal judge rejected a proposed settlement in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union at the end of October because it didn’t do enough to quell ‘potential violations of the constitutional rights of those law-abiding Muslims and believers in Islam.’
The ACLU said Thursday it would take Trump to court, too, if he followed King’s advice and instituted a national spying program.
‘This would be unconstitutional and we would sue,’ the organization said.
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