. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez looks at the new york city police department's surveillance of muslim neighborhoods across the northeast in the wake of 9/11. >> ifill: from ethiopia, we look at the battle over land and water between relocated farmers and the government. >> this country is a country that has suffered food insecurity and famine and yet gives out these huge land resources. >> woodruff: we talk with marcia coyle about today's arguments at the supreme court on whether multinational corporations can be held responsible for human rights violations. >> ifill: and jeffrey brown talks with jason moran, the pianist, composer, and new musical adviser for jazz at the kennedy center for the performing arts washington. >> improvisation of music and jazz kind of forces us to focus. it forces us to have an imagination.

governor chris christie of new jersey governor chris christie neither of these guys had any idea what the department was doing in in new jersey what the new york city policedepartment was doing in new jersey it's pretty breathtaking the new york city police department is going into these other communities and conducting surveillance work without. telling local politicians in the people who are supposed to be in charge of those those communities what they're doing all that is breathtaking i'd say but you know it's basically illegal we found out that you had that i.p.t. working with the cia helping out you know helping to set up some of these domestic programs or monitoring u.s. citizens or just the muslim community here in the u.s. you know and now you have them extending their jurisdiction. i mean do you think that we would have. actions there and then get into any trouble how do you deal with a situation like this. well there are different groups in new york city are looking at different options in terms of how to hold the police department accountable yesterday the new york times at least an article talking about how there's this coalition of over two d

what was the new york city police department doing? >> well, they had domestic intelligence programs that go far beyond what we would have expected pre-9/11 to see from any police department in many ways operate that the federal government, the f.b.i. simply can't. they have a program called the demographics unit, which the nypd originally denied existed. plainclothes officer search that often arab officers who will go out into muslim neighborhoods and they are called rakers. they're going to rake the coals looking for hot spots, meaning they're going to go out and they're going to take pictures of mosques. they're going to take pictures of all the muslim businesses in the area. they're going to go into the muslim cafes or bars and they're going to eavesdrop and listen to people's conversations, maybe ethnicity. write down the owner's ethnicity. definitely write down the ethnicity. those go in police reports. we've seen them in many neighborhoods-- egyptians, moroccans, albanians. they are building these profiles of where muslims live,

the new york city police department targeting and spying on law-abiding muslims first in new york, new and now up and down the east coast. several mayors and governors have discussed the possibility of a federal investigation but documents obtained by the ap now make it seem less likely that an investigation will occur. not only was the federal government aware of the spying program but made a hand in funding it. the program federally funded one designed to aid local agencies disrupting illegal drugs. it was used to fight terror i am. the ap confirmed that a portion of that money was being used for the nypd spying program. congress approves funds for the program but it is not provided detailed breakdown of the program's activities and nypd intelligence operations receive little oversight in new york. but according to chauncey parker, the director of the hidta program about $1.3 million of the federal money was used by the new york police intelligence unit for cars. those cars are used to collect and analyze count terrorism information with the goal of preventing an attack in new york o

media more cops in automatic weapons are flooding specific areas of the big apple the new york city police department increased security around israeli government facilities and synagogues last week amid growing tension over tehran's nuclear program however the n.y.p.d. says it has not received any specific threat related to iraq upping the ante a u.s. senator has called on federal agents to quote increased scrutiny and vigorously monitor the iranian mission to the united nations but as politicians police officers and most mainstream journalists perpetuate a terrifying scenario for new york city officials in washington have thrown a wrench in this armageddon theme type news narrative by stating the facts about iran and their surrogates will revelation of a much less threatening tehran was recently disclosed during intelligence briefings the agency assesses iran isn't likely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict they continue to develop their enrichment capability but the intelligence does not show that they've made a decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon. many experts have la

decree called a hand shoe the deck, that actually started, it was litigation against new york city against the police departmentn the late sixties, 1985, new york city police department signed a consent decree that greatly limited our ability to monitor quote political activity. very, very restrictive, in 2002, we moved through the monitor, who is judge height here in the southern district of new york to lessen those restrictions and indeed that is what he did. so we are authorized to gather a lot of information. we don't have to wait for an attack to happen. we don't have to wait for imminent harm to appear to be coming our way before we can gather this sort of information. so we are doing a lot of things to protect the city. things that i believe and the mayor believes are necessary to protect the number one target but i must stress that we are doing it pursuant to the constitution. we have a cadre of first-rate lawyers that examine what we do. >> rose: covert activity -- >> absolutely. and our chief counsel is, in fact, nyu law professor, full time at the police department, but for 20 something quleerz teach

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. >>> new york city police department is >>> defending covert operation tracking muslim students.t's going beyond city limits it's reaching into some of the elite ivy league colleges. as tony guida reports, they follow the same rules as the fbi. >> the challenge for the nypd is to make sure this never happens again. after 9/11, the department hired a top cia official was to create a counterterrorism intelligence division. detectives were stationed in canada, the mideast and the far east. at home, muslim students were targeted as potential terrorists. >> it's quite surprising to feel that we are considered suspicious individuals. >> this man is a student at city university. four years ago he and a group of young muslims took a camping trip in upstate new york. they recently learned one of the campers was an undercover cop. >> it remind me of the days of kgb. this is secret policing. >> the department will not reveal what led it to do that. but in a statement the department argues some of the most dangerous western al qaeda linked or inspired terrorists since 9/11 were radicalized a

how can you say -- >> bob: i'm not okay for the new york city police undercover agents to go to yale university and not tell the new haven police departmento monitor a student group that is proved to have done zero -- >> eric: pakistan, we're about to take down bin laden. >> dana: 9/11 bombers, 19 of the 9/11 bombers were students. one of the huge problems is because we are welcoming, they have come on student visas and they overstay visas and stay longer. that is what happened with the guy on friday we still don't have enough information about in washington, d.c. >> bob: the f.b.i. caught him and it had nothing to do with the new york city police department. that is my problem. >> kimberly: the easiest way to get in, everybody knows it, student vissa. >> greg: we're off the point. i don't think this is different than the police infiltrating the mob. i don't get why it's different. i know, bob, this is the word job in the world to hang out with students while they are blogging. i mean that has to be terrible. all right. >> dana: hang out at starbucks. >> greg: bill o'reilly made an appearance on another late night show that wasn't "red ey

so is this being blown out of proportion well i don't i'm trying to figure out how the new york city police department has its own you know intelligence arm that. they've had some problems in the past with their p.r. and their approach to dealing with muslims and the dealing with you know credible threats their intelligence comes from. the federal government they've worked well in the past here this seems to be something that's there's something fishy about this story and it's not iran you know iran is not so stupid as to even with a quote proxy unquote of hezbollah attacked the united states directly and you know even there are those in israel who even say that so i don't know where this where this comes from in this could be something that's a little fishy or something internal that is feeding frenzy on purpose so you know we don't really know you know and iran has maintained that their nuclear program as for peaceful purposes we even have as you mentioned before a top u.s. military leaders confirming that iran does not have a nuclear bomb and hasn't been confirmed that they are pursuing a nuclear b

treated like a potential terrorist and the same time not worrying much over whether the new york city police department is keeping prophylactic tabs on historically and culturally antagonistic newcomers whose coreligionists are responsible for nine eleven yes because muslims are responsible for nine eleven than every muslim should be kept tabs on just because they are muslim and that my p.t. was totally justified in having an undercover cop going to rafting trip with college students who have done absolutely nothing wrong the n.y.p.d. is also totally good for running surveillance on grade school children because they're muslim and as a group historically and culturally antagonistic you know i think this is my biggest problem with washes response the fact that he has no qualms with lumping entire groups of people together and then making judgments based on race religion affiliation rather than their actions his entire piece prove that point without even saying the word muslim once he gave me the exact same treatment that he believes should be given to the muslims their muslim therefore they deserve to b