FBI denies "Falafel Investigation"

The FBI may be tapping your phone, monitoring the Internet, hanging out at environmental law conferences and a host of other things, but they deny they are investigating your falafel.

In a Nov. 2 issues of Congressional Quarterly it was alleged that there was plan for an FBI program to monitor the sales of Middle Eastern food products in the San Francisco Bay area in support of counterterrorism intelligence gathering.

Given that the Los Angeles Police Department recently called off a plan to create a map of LA's Muslim communities, the falafel plan doesn't sound all that far-fetched.

But a recent press-release from the FBI calls counterterrrorism managers Willie T. Hulon and Phil Mudd’s Involvement in the so-called “Falafel Investigation,” "too ridiculous to be true."

Falafel is no laughing matter to the feds. FBI assistant director of the Office of Public Affairs John Miller, says in his statement that he's setting the record straight on "something that touches on something so important as national security and civil liberties."

So rest assured Eugeneans, you can eat your falafel without fear of persecution. For now.