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The U.S. media hasn’t reported much about this, but Americans who value their constitutional protections should be stunned by the ruling of a federal judge that the New York Police Department was acting within its constitutional bounds while spying on Muslims at mosques, restaurants, colleges and grade schools.

The spying has been going on for 12 years, and in many instances it involved NYPD officers infiltrating locations where they were secretly trying to locate “budding terrorist conspiracies.”

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the lawsuit, among the targets of the NYPD spying were a decorated Iraq War veteran, Rutgers University students, a parents organization that supports Muslim students at Rutgers campuses, a coalition of New Jersey mosques, and the owners and proprietors of a grade school for Muslim girls.

They were tracked because they were Muslims and the surveillance occurred without a warrant.