Mosques Secretly Checked For Radiation

A story in U.S. News & World Report on Thursday revealed that the federal government since 9/11 has run a top secret program to monitor radiation levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in Washington, D.C., as well as in 5 other cities. The sites included prominent mosques. Federal officials claim that warrants are not required for this kind of radiation sampling, but some legal scholars disagree. Officials said that the monitoring targets were not chosen on the basis of religious affiliation or ethnicity, but only on the basis of intelligence findings. The equipment used took air samples near suspected targets. In some cases, the tests involved driving a vehicle into a mosque parking lot.