From [HERE] and [MORE] The American Civil Liberties Union recently challenged the FBI over a secret racial and ethnic mapping program, which allegedly gathers intelligence on specific American communities. Nationwide, the FBI is gathering reports on innocent Americans' so-called “suspicious activity” and sharing it with unknown numbers of federal, state and local government agencies. According to the ACLU, the program profiles Muslims and Arab-Americans in Michigan, African-Americans in Georgia, Chinese and Russian-Americans in California and broad swaths of Latino-American communities in multiple states.

Nusrat Choudhury, a staff attorney at the ACLU National Security Project, spoke about the program in a segment on HuffPost Live.

"What we've uncovered through over 15,000 documents from 34 states around the country already shows, as you mentioned, that communities of diverse backgrounds -- racial, ethnic and religious communities -- are being targeted for intelligence collection and investigation, based on nothing more than bias and stereotypes about what communities have a propensity to commit certain crimes," she told host Ahmed Shahib-Eldin.