By Nick Schou, OC Weekly
In 2006, the FBI used an undercover informant to infiltrate various mosques in Orange County, despite a promise by a high-ranking bureau official that the FBI would never do so. (Click here to read an in-depth OC Weekly feature story about the case). Now, more than a decade later, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, has won a landmark ruling that will have nationwide consequences. …
His extremist rhetoric and apparent interest in violent jihad so startled his presumed targets in the operation that they reached out to Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Southern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, and told them about Monteilh’s potential status as a terrorist.
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