Enemies Within (41 page)

11
. Michael A. Sheehan,
Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terror Without Terrorizing Ourselves
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008), p. 193.

12
. Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, “With Cameras, Informants, NYPD Eyed Mosques,” Associated Press, February 23, 2012,
www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2012/Newark-mayor-seeks-probe-of-NYPD-Muslim-spying
.

13
. Pinkall’s attendance and failure at the Farm were described by former intelligence and law enforcement officials.

14
. The activities of the undercovers are taken from the NYPD’s internal documents including Cohen’s daily briefings on the activities of the SSU. They were also described in interviews with two former senior NYPD Intel officials and a former SSU detective.

15
. Handschu v. Special Services, “Defendants’ Answers to Plaintiffs’ Interrogatories,” December 22, 1971. The NYPD said it was possible to open an investigation based solely on rhetoric, but, because of its record keeping, it was impossible to say if or how often that happened.

16
. Memorandum from FBI headquarters, quoted in
Final Report of the Select Committee
, book 3,
Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports,
p. 18,
www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs94th/94755_III.pdf
.

17
. Galati deposition, p. 86: “Most Urdu speakers from that region would be of concern.”

18
. TIU Watch List. NYPD document, 2004. Obtained by authors.

19
. Galati deposition, p. 66.

20
. Statements of Rhetoric, Masjid Al-Ikhwa. Terrorism Interdiction Unit, circa 2004. Document obtained by authors.

21
. Interviews with a former NYPD intelligence official who attended a meeting with Parker.

22
. Apuzzo and Goldman, “With CIA Help,”
www.ap.org/Content/AP-in-the-News/2011/With-CIA-help-NYPD-moves-covertly-in-Muslim-areas
.

23
. Apuzzo and Goldman, “NYPD Keeps Files on Muslims Who Change Their Names,” Associated Press, October 26, 2011,
http://www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2011/NYPD-keeps-files-on-Muslims-who-change-their-names
.

24
. Dates of Interest. Masjid Al-Ikhwa. Terrorism Interdiction Unit. Circa 2004. Document obtained by authors.

25
. Quintan Wiktorowicz, “Anatomy of the Salafi Movement,”
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
29, no. 3 (April–May 2006): 207-39,
http://ipac.kacst.edu.sa/edoc/2006/157374_1.pdf
.

26
. Steven D’Ulisse, “Integrating Collection, Analysis and Operations.” Presentation, September 2006. Obtained by authors.

27
. NYPD Intelligence Division,
Strategic Posture 2006
,
www.nyclu.org/files/releases/Handschu_Exhibit7b_(StrategicPostureredacted)_2.4.13.pdf
.

28
. Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt,
Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown
Threat
(New York Police Department, 2007), p. 70,
www.nypdshield.org//files/06/31/64/f063164/public/SiteFiles/documents/NYPD_Report-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf
.

29
. Goldman and Apuzzo. “With Cameras,”
www.ap.org/Content/AP-In-The-News/2012/Newark-mayor-seeks-probe-of-NYPD-Muslim-spying
.

30
. NYPD Intelligence Division,
Strategic Posture 2006
,
www.nyclu.org/files/releases/Handschu_Exhibit7b_(StrategicPostureredacted)_2.4.13.pdf
.

31
. Ibid.

32
. NYPD Intelligence Division, Cyber Intelligence Division,
Weekly MSA Report
, November 22, 2006,
http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/documents/nypd-msa-report.pdf
.

33
. Mitchell D. Silber, “Who Will Defend the Defenders?”
Commentary
, June 2012,
www.commentarymagazine.com/article/who-will-defend-the-defenders/
.

34
. Mitchell D. Silber and Donald Powers, letter, entitled “Request to Conduct a Preliminary Inquiry Concerning Dennis Christopher Burke and Certain of His Associates,” March 27, 2008.

35
. NYPD Intelligence Division, Intelligence Collection Coordinator,
Deputy Commissioner’s Briefing
, April 25, 2008,
http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/documents/nypd/dci-briefing-04252008.pdf
.

36
. Memo to Kelly from Cyber Intelligence Unit, May 12, 2008. Obtained by authors.

37
. The X Team is mentioned in NYPD documents, including an organization chart that lists it as part of the Special Case Unit. Its function was described in interviews with former NYPD officials.

38
. Surveillance Request. Technical Operations Unit. December 9, 2008. Obtained by authors.

39
. Sheehan,
Crush the Cell
, p. 175.

40
. Interview with former law enforcement official who’d attended the meeting.

41
. This conclusion was described by a former law enforcement official involved in the discussions.

42
. Associated Press reporter Eileen Sullivan first heard about this conversation from a source. In the reporting of this book, the authors then corroborated it in an interview with a former official who’d attended the briefing.

43
. The story of Mueller in Newark is told frequently in FBI circles. It was confirmed by three current and former FBI officials with direct knowledge of the discussion.

44
. Interviews with three former federal prosecutors with direct knowledge of the decision.

45
. Craig Horowitz, “Anatomy of a Foiled Plot,”
New York Magazine
, December 6, 2004,
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/10559/
.

46
. Mitchell D. Silber, “Who Will Defend the Defenders?”
Commentary
, June 2012

47
. FBI officials would not discuss Aziz, but the authors have obtained numerous NYPD documents related to Confidential Informant 184. Separately, Aziz has identified himself as a longtime NYPD informant in Martin Mawyer with Patti A. Pierucci,
Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamic Terrorist Training Camps Inside America
(Lynchburg, VA: PRB Publishing, 2012). Aziz’s assignment, travel, NYPD handler, immigration status, and criminal record match those described in the CI 184 documents.

48
. 
Deputy Commissioner’s Briefing
, April 9, 2008.

Seven: Ostermann

1
. Now known as the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab.

2
. The details of this briefing were described in interviews with Davis, Ritter, Carpenter, and Colorado State Patrol major Brenda Leffler.

3
. 
Federal Support for
and Involvement in State and Local Fusion Centers
(Washington, DC: United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, October 3, 2012), available at
http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=49139e81-1DD7-4788-A3BB-d6e7d97dde04
.

4
. Interviews with Davis and Shepard.

5
. Details about the informant and the search for explosives residue were confirmed in interviews with Davis, Olson, and Lambert.

6
. The 5,500 figure comes from interviews with current and former counterterrorism officials.

Eight: Mosques

1
. Details from inside the meeting were described in interviews with a former law enforcement official.

2
. Interview with Ahmad Wais Afzali.

3
. Author interview with Fatimah Zulaika Rahim.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Details of this call are described in Afzali’s handwritten statement to federal agents on September 17, 2009.

6
. Afzali recounted this meeting in an interview with the FBI on September 14, 2009. It was memorialized in an FBI document known as a 302.

7
. Afzali has remained consistent in his interviews with the federal government—memorialized in a sworn personal statement and his FBI 302—that Sirakovsky told him to find out more about Zazi. Though some of his statements were false, the government has never alleged that this one was. Further, NYPD detectives did not need Afzali to identify Zazi’s picture. They knew who he was. They needed Afzali for information. Sirakovsky denies this, however, and says that his only instruction to Afzali was for him not to tell anyone about their conversation.

8
. Ervin Dyer, “Mosque Members Denounce FBI Raid as Desecration,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, July 8, 2006,
www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/mosque-members-denounce-fbi-raid-as-desecration-441219
.

9
. 
Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG)
(Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, October 15, 2011,
http://vault.fbi.gov/FBI%20Domestic%20Investigations%20and%20Operations%20Guide%20%28DIOG%29/fbi-domestic-investigations-and-operations-guide-diog-2011-version/fbi-domestic-investigations-and-operations-guide-diog-october-15-2011-part-01-of-03/view
.

10
. Ibid.

11
. Interviews with current and former US law enforcement officials.

12
. Andrea Elliott, “Why Yasir Qadhi Wants to Talk About Jihad,”
New York Times Magazine
, March 17, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20Salafis-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
.

13
. Bill de Blasio, public advocate for New York City,
http://advocate.nyc.gov/sites/advocate.nyc.gov/files/deBlasioFOILReport_0.pdf
.

14
. Modified Handschu Guidelines, second revised order and judgment, August 6, 2003, 288 F. Supp. 2d 411.

15
. Ibid.

16
. These figures come from NYPD documents from the time, including minutes from Handschu meetings and requests for approval to open terrorism enterprise investigations.

17
. TIU Watch List, NYPD document, 2004. Obtained by authors.

18
. Fred Burton and Scott Stewart, “Tablighi Jamaat: An Indirect Line to Terrorism,” Strafor Global Intelligence, January 23, 2008,
www.stratfor.com/weekly/tablighi_jamaat_indirect_line_terrorism
.

19
. Handschu Committee Minutes, May 12, 2009. Obtained by authors.

20
. Andy Newman with Daryl Khan, “Brooklyn Mosque Becomes Terror Icon, but Federal Case Is Unclear,”
New York Times
, March 9, 2003,
www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/nyregion/brooklyn-mosque-becomes-terror-icon-but-federal-case-is-unclear.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
.

21
. Michelle Goldberg, “My Arab Street,”
Salon
, March 7, 2003,
www.salon.com/2003/03/07/al_farooq
.

22
. Len Levitt, “Intel at Inception,”
The Blog, Huffington Post
, December 10, 2012,
www.huffingtonpost.com/len-levitt/intel-at-inception_b_2271152.html
.