<i>Handschu</i> Lawyers File Against NYPD, Brennan Defended

Lawyers File Against NYPD, Brennan Defended
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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, people walk below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which was placed next to a mosque on Fulton Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Civil rights lawyers are telling a judge that the New York Police Departments surveillance of Muslim communities violates federal guidelines established to stop the NYPD from conducting political surveillance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, people walk below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which was placed next to a mosque on Fulton Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Civil rights lawyers are telling a judge that the New York Police Departments surveillance of Muslim communities violates federal guidelines established to stop the NYPD from conducting political surveillance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

The lawyers in the long-running Handschu civil rights lawsuit against the NYPD have made a new filing -- this time, over the police department's controversial program of spying on Muslims.

Dan Klaidman defends John Brennan. His CIA confirmation hearings begin Thursday.

If you're in New York on Wednesday, come see Tash Lennard and me co-moderate a panel on the NDAA lawsuit. Big names in the house: Michael Moore, Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Thomas Drake and more.

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