wasted many years and enormous amount of tax dollars and faced no consequences over targeting muslim americans according to court documents the commanding officer of the n.y.p.d. intelligence division has testified that the department's so-called muslims by program has not produced even one more terrorism investigation in the past. six years now the new york city police department following the september eleventh attacks created a demographics unit this according to this sociedad press that unit mapped unmonitored muslim owned businesses and also had police officials infiltrate mosques and muslim student groups throughout the city and parts of new jersey according to reports the n.y.p.d. was also eavesdropping on conversations taking place between muslim americans now many civil rights lawyers say the n.y.p.d. violated any laws and civil liberties by targeting people based on their ethnicity or their language they also argue that laws were broken because officials were trying to gather information on people that did not commit any crimes so here we are nearly eleven years following the septemb

from islamic terrorists here in the united states as this program along with anti and muslim advocates caused americans to fear and hate the muslim community and back in one nine hundred forty four f.d.r. called out republicans saying they were using the most one of hitler's most powerful profit began the techniques to win over voters so what was that technique i'll tell you in today's daily take. it goes to the rest of the news wiki leaks founder julian assange has been in the ecuadorian embassy in london for two months now and it's been six days since the government of ecuador officially granted him diplomatic asylum status and throughout all this time the british government continues to refuse a songe safe passage out of the ecuadorian embassy in london now many are that being up to speak out on his behalf on sunday the former british ambassador to pakistan and former whistleblower himself greg murray attacked his own government and made this statement on why assad and others like him are more important now than ever. this isn't right because if you don't need to be. with me in mind. i'm only going

who we need to look further at and has understood that the worst thing that could happen to the muslim american community in the united states is another terrorist attack. yes, we have our reach. every one of our field officers has substantial out reach with and has since september 11 with the muslim communities. but in addition to the relationships that we establish, the education that we do jointly, it is in large part attributable to the muslim community itself that local radicalization is somewhat diminished and, really, it is on the internet where we face our biggest challenge now. >> director, several government officials have raised questions about the relationship between contractors and the federal government, and this is an issue that indicates perhaps not only the department of defense, the state department, and many other government agencies, but also to some degree, our law enforcement agencies. what is your take on -- what would be the philosophy of the fbi when it comes to the use of contractors? >> there are certain roles a contractor needs to play. it may be an area of expertis

have if you happen to be muslim-american.e right between norquist and gaffney. >> and amanda, why does it sound like a landlord/tenant gripe. he talks about, i sublet space from grover and now i'm wicked mad at him. >> it seems very, very personal, like there's some sort of vendetta there, and i'm not sure what it is. but people have reviewed, other conservatives have reviewed, the evidence that frank gaffney has put out there against grover norquist and other individuals gaffney has gone after, and they've said, this seems to be nothing more than conspiracy theories and bigotry. >> what is gaffney's big evidence against grover norquist being some sort of infiltrator? >> i mean, it's very unclear. it's like with conspiracy theories, you can keep going down and down these rabbit holes. he points to everything, but there's nothing concrete. the board of the american conservative union, which includes people like the head of the nra, the former ambassador john bolton, who was in the bush administration, wasn't exactly seen as so

it was secretary mineta who prevented the profiling of arab- americans and muslim americans in our country. tonight, we honor secretary mineta and we give them -- him this for a very special reason. i want to thank the san francisco giants for donating this bat. the reason why we are giving this back to secretary mineta is because of what happened to him when he was a young boy. secretary mineta was forced to relocate into the internment camps. as a young boy, he was taken to the train station by military police officers. as a young boy, he was a huge baseball fan and he had his prized possession with him, his baseball bat. military police saw the young boy with his baseball bat and said you are not taking it with you. that is a weapon. what did they do? they took away his prized possession. later on in his life as a member of congress, a very generous person heard the story and offered him an autographed hank aaron bat. as a member of congress, you are not allowed to accept a gift valued over $200. so the government took away his back again. tonight, we cannot replace the bat that was tak

>> muslim-americans. ey've been accused of being members of the muslim brotherhood with little evidence and other conservatives are rejected his claims. >> that's pretty rotten. you see people work at the stands. they work all night at the food stands outside. three times a night and they're praying and great americans trying to make it in this country with little background. and they all feel, i don't know what they feel when they read this crap. all this turkish americans and everybody that has backgrounds eastern europeans with islamic backgrounds, everybody is targeted by this stuff. >> someone that's been targeted by these accusations, has a security clearance, he has received death threaten. law enforcement had to come to his house. these don't go into a void. >> terrorist suspect. then you have people saying they're just investigating. people like newt say they're just investigating. how would you like to be a terrorist suspect? that's enough. your thoughts. >> they draw connections broadly. gaffney

>> muslim-americans. used of being members of the muslim brotherhood with very, very little evidence and other conservatives are rejecting his claims. >> that's pretty rotten. >> it is. >> when i was in new york last week and you see people who work at the stands, all night at the food stands outside on the big avenues like sixth avenue and you see them out there praying, great americans who are trying to make it in this country with little background. and they all feel, i don't know what they feel when they read this crap. anybody with background with an islamic background, anybody is now targeted with this stuff. >> these have consequences, too. someone that's been targeted by these accusations, has a security clearance, he has received death threats. law enforcement had to come to his house. these don't go into a void. >> terrorist suspect. then you have people coming on and saying, oh, they're just investigating. people like newt say they're just investigating. how would you like to be a terrorist susp

are really the even i mean the community who are really perpetrating out there that you know muslim americans and to be trusted muslims or not to be part of this very group in their constituents they're listening when their followers are listening we're starting to see a direct impact in the other the incidences in the crimes that we have been exhibited again over the past few weeks it's no coincidence that you know representative joe walsh made some of the week that muslims want to kill americans or try to kill americans every week and he has two incidents one near the district of it and one of the in a district of a bomb thrown at a muslim school so that's right and really quickly for our viewers who don't know we did we mention this said this incident this homemade bomb launched at a private islamic school it happened in the eighth congressional district in illinois again the same district where congressman it joe walsh is running for reelection and while seems to be not only not concerned with the violence he's more concerned about what he calls is you know a different kind of dangerous t

but nonetheless muslim-american, guilty. guys, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it.ous wall paper that you see in the background was my bedroom initially. when we come back, we're going to talk about a serious case. you want to talk about bad racial profiling. there is a rape and murder, horrific. a bunch of guys arrested. whites guys, black guys. guess who was let off and guess who was on death row. i know it's going to be a shocker. >> if you believe that they will beat you to death, rather than beat you, they can get you to not admit anything. so, you guys grew up together. yes, since third grade... what are you lookin' at? not looking at i anything... we're not good enough for you. must be supermodels? what do you model gloves? brad, eat a snickers. why? 'cause you get a little angry when you're hungry. better? [ male announcer ] you're not you when you're hungry™. better. [ male announcer ] snickers satisfies. >> cenk: on april 4 1991, something tragic happened, two girls went to a bridge called chain of rocks bridge in st. louis, missouri. that's where they wer

. >> reporter: 18-year-old kashish is a muslim-american teen, part of the first generation of kids tost-9/11 era. >> people have said weird things to me. as soon as they found out i was muslim, they'd be like, oh, so you're a terrorist? no. >> reporter: kashish is not alone. >> our children have become increasingly victims of harassment, bullying. >> reporter: mona malik is a social worker who has conducted surveys with muslim-american kids about discrimination. she says 80% report being harassed because of their faith. >> i remember a little boy. he was so cute. and he said to me, you know, i don't really face discrimination. my friends really like me. they only call me a terrorist every other week. >> reporter: so kashish, a performing arts student, will play the victim in our next scenario. to make her faith more obvious, she'll wear a head scarf, something she usually wears only when praying. we have invited teens to be judges for a fake competition we're calling "oh, say, can you sing, american teen voices." and we planted two actors at the judges' table to discriminate against k

has made muslim community largely law abiding innocent people that are american citizens into. a group of people that are automatically deemed suspect because of their religion and clearly this is not justified it's unconstitutional and it's wholly in violation of muslims civil rights here in the united states has put a twist to this to the n.y.p.d. divisions already operating under a new name the zone assessment begs the question is that allowed to carry out unwarranted surveillance now into the future mother little for more aggressive tactics under this new name. well. i don't i don't think it's clear that the new name changes anything you're right in a deposition thomas galante an officer in the n.y.p.d. a high ranking officer said the name of the unit that was tasked with spying on muslims in new york and new jersey as well as on college campuses spying on muslim student organizations has been changed to a zone assessment unit. other than a name change it's unclear whether the actual spying has stopped you know it's likely that the spying continues and instead of the demogra

muslim, american, african-american not part of the american culture come on same thing. >> what we are overlooking here is the fact that governor romney went to poland, the real reason he went to poland current comearnted and chief who actually chose the 70th anniversary of the invasion of poland to cancel the mission defense shield which would have -- >> bill: that's why he went. >> i'm not going to gut their missile program or anything like that. >> that was the actual and also to extend a hand of friendship on behalf of the american people to the polls. >> bill: go over there, right? >> wanted to show strong on israel. strong on eastern europe. >> bill: versus the labor guy is he a union guy. >> is he a republic. he has campaigned for republicans in this country. he is in sync. >> he didn't go there because he wanted to get white votes. i mean, that's insane. that's why we did the segment. >> bill: big hot senate race up in massachusetts. elizabeth warren is running give me his name again. >> scott brown. >> bill: the reason i can't remember scott brown's name i because he won't com

happening in america we know al-qaeda has altered its attack actively recruiting and radicalizing muslim american citizens when you say there are threats and you sing aloud groups of americans in exact towns to be the subject of fear that is the scary thing i believe ... >>the aclu has blasted walsh with his response to recent hate crimes ... such as the mosque attacks last weekend ... the union says that in his statements lead to fear and attacks against certain groups of people ... but walsh countered with several examples of the fort hood shooting incident a few years ago saying it can happen anywhere in any town ... republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan makes the case government isn't the solution... when it comes to kick-starting the economy. ryan campaigned in north canton, ohio this morning. this was his second appearance in the battleground state since mitt romney picked him to be his running mate. >>the economic pie of life in the economy is not thick government's job is not to slice this prime more equitably the government job is to get out of the way to set the conditions fo

and muslim americans. nderstandable for me to be sitting here in the post as /11 context, a sikh to do would be targeted more than an african-american or a jew. >> and the cost of explanations that no sikhs are not muslims. >> it is an important distinction to make. as we see, the source of the problem, i believe, is largely ignorant. this is an important opportunity to educate ourselves and say, sikhs are not muslims or hindus. >> and it is the fifth largest in the world with 25 million people? >> correct. approximately 700,000 in the u.s. it is a large community that people have been a not know about. at the same time, i am a little troubled by the discourse. but he pointed to the fact sikhs are not muslims, but even if it happened to muslims, it is not ok and we would stand up against that. what occurred in joplin yesterday, it is similar to what we saw in wisconsin. but for some reason, it is not receiving the same sort of media attention and that is troubling to me. >> as we wrap up, how is your commun

into islamic radicalization in america and the threat of muslim terrorism and he drew a lot of crazy criticism for narrowing the threat americans face strickly to radicalize muslims and news and when he was asked why he won't be investigating other forms of domestic terrorism like anti-government extremists like joe stack who flew a plane into the i.r.s. building in texas in two thousand and ten or anti-abortion christian extremists like eric rudolph who went on a bombing rampage killing two people injuring more than one hundred fifty others including bombing the olympics or neo nazi white supremacists who had twenty seven different plots to kill americans since nine eleven congressman pete king scoffed saying quote it makes no sense to talk about other types of extremism when the main threat to the united states today is talking about al qaeda well today six americans are dead and three others are fighting for their lives at the hands of a terrorist gunman who did not belong to al qaeda and instead was one of those domestic terror threats that king was so unconcerned with at the time so what happens now on the heels of another

. >> al-qaeda is recruiting within the muslim-american community. theal-qaeda is changing tactics.to show the extent of the radicalism. how can we detect it. what are they afraid of? what are they hiding from? >> cenk: no, no, congressman king. they're not not attacking you. you're attacking them. we have to look inside the muslim community. we have to look inside the muslim community. these are the guys attacking us. wouldn't it be nice if someone attacked them? why didn't you do right wing extremism. did you know there is more right wing extremeist attacks with the exception of 9/11 than there are muslim extremist attacks? year inner year out where is your hearing on that, congressman king. golly gee, i wonder how it happened. there is more of this madness from michelle bachmann. >> it appears there has been deep penetration in the halls of our united states government by the muslim brotherhood. the muslim brotherhood has found to be an unindicted coconspirator on terrorism cases. yet it appears there are individuals who are associated with the muslim brotherhood who have positio

what about muslim americans. nope, still don't like them. 35% favorable and 47% unfavorable.a billion people in the world. they don't like them. apparently that means they don't like one of mitt romney's stop advisers john sunun