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Even the Feds aren’t feeling the NYPD’s monitoring of Muslims in New Jersey; a Newark special agent in charge went on record and blasted the NYPD and their spying program.

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F.B.I. agent Michael Ward broke the norm of law enforcement keeping matters to themselves and said that the NYPD’s spy-gate has disabled their ability to gather counter terrorism intelligence.

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Ward told CBS News that:

“What we’re seeing now with the uproar that is occurring in New Jersey is that we’re starting to see cooperation pulled back. People are concerned that they’re being followed. People are concerned that they can’t trust law enforcement.” 

Ward said the NYPD’s spying on mosques and Muslim businesses in the Garden State has caused sources to stop talking. Sources fear that they are being watched at all times, making the F.B.I.’s job that much harder to gather counter terrorism intelligence.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg have faced numerous criticisms for allowing cops to venture into New Jersey to trace and track people they feel might want to attack New York City.

But this is the first time a fellow law enforcement agency has been critical of their decision. The NYPD’s defense is that the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the 9/11 attack were masterminded in New Jersey.

As for Mayor Bloomberg, he is standing on the side of the NYPD and his commissioner:

“Anything we’ve done in New Jersey, we have done under an agreement with the state of New Jersey that was signed by a previous governor, and still remains in effect.” 

He added that the city will continue to gather the kind of information that the Constitution, and court decisions, allow it to do: 

“We work with the governor of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey all the time. We’ll continue to do that.” 

Back in 2005, then New Jersey Gov. Dick Codey signed the executive orders that allowed the NYPD to cross the Hudson, and carry out surveillance operations in New Jersey.

If a fellow law enforcement agent continues to harbor the same feeling as the general public when it comes to spying on Muslims, then something must be wrong.