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    Supreme Court deals setback to Muslims suing FBI over spying on a California mosque

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Mar 04, 2022 3 minutes
    The Islamic Center of Irvine on Oct. 25, 2021, in Irvine, California. Members of the Islamic Center of Irvine welcomed Craig Monteihl aka Farouk al-Aziz into their community where he converted. In actuality, he was an informant recruited and paid by the FBI to surveil Muslim Americans.

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback Friday to three Muslim men in Orange County, California, who have been suing the FBI for spying on their mosques in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

    In a unanimous but narrowly written opinion, the high court said the government may invoke the “state secrets” privilege to block such a lawsuit from proceeding and ruled the current law does not authorize a judge to examine the supposedly secret information

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