Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman — who won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on Monday — started building a body of reporting on the intelligence community in Washington more than a year ago. But the AP’s senior managing editor for U.S. news, Mike Oreskes — who helped edited the series — told TPM they kept getting tips about the New York Police Department’s work with the CIA. They found enough sources to detail the NYPD’s “tremendous” intelligence-gathering operation — an effort larger than anything led in the U.S. They assembled a story based entirely on law enforcement sources, who described the programs. The AP ran a first story last August.
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