NYPD Had Plant in Pro-'Ground Zero Mosque' Protests  Here's an
odd little revelation from the run-up to the trial of accused
terrorist plotters Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh: The NYPD
had an undercover officer planted at a demonstration showing
support for Cordoba House, the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque."
That fact—which is no less disappointing for being
unsurprising—is occluded somewhat by the circumstances of its
disclosure, which are complicated. Apparently one of the lawyers
in the Ferhani/Mamdouh case either represented or provided legal
advice to the undercover officer at the protest ("UC 242")...
who also happens to be "the lead undercover cop" in the
Ferhani/Mamdouh case. (Weirder still: It seems as though the
legal issue over which UC 242 approached the lawyer was a
summons he received at that very demonstration?)  In any event,
it's always good to be reminded that the NYPD is not above
planting its officers, undercover, at demonstrations—just as
it's not above doing the same thing at places o