ACLU: FBI used outreach to collect info on Muslims

WASHINGTON — Heav­ily blacked-out inter­nal FBI doc­u­ments released Thurs­day indi­cate that the FBI, in some cases between 2007 and 2009, ran back­ground checks on peo­ple they encoun­tered at Muslim-related events and recorded per­sonal infor­ma­tion such as email addresses, phone num­bers, phys­i­cal descrip­tions and opin­ions in reports marked “routine.”