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Politico
May 14, 2017
The dispute in the mosque surveillance suit dates back to President George W. Bush's administration and an effort the FBI reportedly labeled “Operation Flex. “ It involved the use of a troubled informant, Craig Monteilh, to pose as Islamic convert “Farouk Aziz” and gather information on the activities ofÃâà...
The Intercept
October 17, 2016
The presentation, which was prepared for the FBI's Directorate of Intelligence, instructed agents on how to cultivate informants among Yemeni ... said that her community had still been reeling from learning of Craig Monteilh, an FBI informant who trawled mosques in Southern California and then went publicÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 27, 2015
Craig Monteilh, who was recruited by the FBI to spy on Muslims in Orange County,in his undercover Islamic clothing in February of 2009. ... When it was eventually discovered that Monteilh had been working as an FBI informant (a fact the bureau does not dispute), several people who had been surveilledÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 21, 2015
A federal appeals court is now considering whether the FBI can be held liable for allegedly indiscriminately targeting Muslims for surveillance. If the court decides the FBI cannot defend itself without revealing state secrets, the court likely would uphold the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit brought byÃâà...
Politico (blog)
December 8, 2015
That program has also spawned litigation, which continues. The informant in the Southern California probe, Craig Monteilh, had a falling out with the FBI and alleged that he was told to engage in dragnet tactics, including gathering emails and phone numbers of thousands of Muslims in Orange County andÃâà...
Huffington Post
March 4, 2015
To Muslim mosque members in the Los Angeles area, Craig Monteilh was known as Farouk al-Aziz, a French Syrian looking to reconnect to his Islamic roots. But behind the devout facade and convincing knowledge of Islam, Monteilh was spying for the FBI, which instructed him to go as far as sleeping withÃâà...
The Guardian
March 28, 2012
Monteilh was involved in one of the most controversial tactics: the use of "confidential informants" in so-called entrapment cases. This is when suspects carry out or plot fake terrorist "attacks" at the request or under the close supervision of an FBI undercover operation using secret informants. Often thoseÃâà...
Independent
December 6, 2010
The spying game wasn't all it was cracked up to be for Craig Monteilh, a convicted criminal recruited by the FBI to investigate the march of radical Islam into ... when the bungling informant revealed that his FBI handlers had instructed him to entrap his potential target and told him that "Islam is a threat to ourÃâà...
Independent
December 6, 2010
The spying game wasn't all it was cracked up to be for Craig Monteilh, a convicted criminal recruited by the FBI to investigate the march of radical Islam into ... when the bungling informant revealed that his FBI handlers had instructed him to entrap his potential target and told him that "Islam is a threat to ourÃâà...
OCRegister
January 22, 2010
Craig Monteilh, an Irvine man who said he worked as an informant for the FBI, has filed a $10 million suit against the agency. ... But such claims echo those that have been made by Muslim organizations across the country, whose leaders have said that informants planted within their communities have notÃâà...
