The government’s investigation of U.S. citizens, in the absence of a crime, with no reason for suspicion. Until now, it’s been against the law. But proposed new FBI guidelines could change that, allowing citizens to be investigated for a new set of reasons – including race, religion and ethnicity.

On this edition of Due Process, a new chapter in racial profiling. Sandra King looks at the history of the FBI, and the vulnerability of certain communities following 9/11, while Raymond Brown’s studio guests are Rutgers Law School professor Frank Askin, who is also general counsel and national board member of the ACLU and Professor Jan Ting, who teaches at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia and is a former Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration & Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice.