Mass. Governor Urges Mosque Wiretapping

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney spoke to the Heritage Foundation on Homeland Security: Status of Federal, State and Local Efforts (webcast of speech). The Fitchburg, Massachusetts Sentinel today reports on some particularly controversial comments he made regarding surveillance of mosques:

How about people in settings, mosques for instance, that may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror? Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what's going on? Are we seeing who's coming in? Are we seeing who's coming out? Are we eavesdropping, carrying out surveillance on those individuals from places that sponsor domestic terror?

The Anti-Arab Discrimination Committee has called on Romney to repudiate his remarks, but the Governor has refused to do so.