OMG! The horror! The NYPD were doing their job! Because they didn’t trust the Obama administration to do its job.
Investigating Muslims and mosques? I’ve got no problem with that. Instead of the CIA, though, they should have gotten some training from the Israelis.
Big no, no! When one law enforcement agency operates within the jurisdiction of another, it always seeks permission and cooperation from the local sheriff's department.
Bloomberg thinks that he's above the law. He tried this in Virginia couple of years ago with his agents making strawman gun purchases, and the Commonwealth Attorney General told him in uncertain terms that if it happened again, then the agents would be charged and prosecuted.
New York City is NOT foreign country with its own intelligence rules and operations, even though Bloomberg likes to think so.
Given the numbers of times I’ve eaten at The Parkside Restaurant in Corona, Queens my photo must have been taken fifty times by the FBI and NYPD’s organized crime task force. This does not include visits to Frankie and Johnnie’s Pine Tavern and Dominick’s in The Bronx. The ACLU and NYTimes haven’t made much of the continuous surveillance of Italian American establishments in the last 60 years. Never bothered me. I usually try to find the vans and look at them and smile. I’ll be eating Snapper Livornese while they’ll be drinking bad coffee. As for the wiseguys. They’re bums and thugs and if they’re stupid enough to do something in front of the cameras they know are watching they deserve a trip to Atlanta.