A federal appeals court overturned a ruling by a judge in California on Thursday that would have required the FBI to release documents describing the bureau's efforts to spy on Muslims in Northern California and recruit informants from among Muslim communities.
A lawsuit, filed in 2010 by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Asian Law Caucus, and the Bay Guardian Newspaper, sought to obtain documents on whether the FBI was using educational and “community outreach” to infiltrate Muslim communities. The FBI turned over tens of thousands of documents, some of which showed that the bureau's agents had taken notes on the religious viewpoints of some members of the Muslim community. But some of the information was deleted from the documents, and other documents were withheld.
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