U.S. Appeals Court revives suit vs. post-9/11 surveillance program

A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department's post-9/11 surveillance of Muslim religious and civic groups, comparing the program other dark moments of race-based government monitoring in America's past. "We have been down similar roads before," Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro wrote for a three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. "Jewish-Americans during the Red Scare, African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, and Japanese-Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind." He added: "We are left to wonder why we cannot see with foresight...