This is an incredibly important point. Perhaps more importantly, African American (or Black, at that time) community leader. To the semi-OP: Don't look at what

This is an incredibly important point. Perhaps more importantly, African American (or Black, at that time) community leader. To the semi-OP: Don't look at what the government fails to explain and do their work for them. Don't take what they say and then look for the hidden context -- in their favor. It's THEIR job to justify the suspicious-looking things they do, NOT ours. They answer to us. If they only say he's a community leader, then ask yourself: "Why the hell are you monitoring community leaders? You gotta do better than that." Because either A) There is a genuine reason and they're now foolishly refusing to say it, which is ludicrous at this point now that it's out in the open. Or the more likely B) It's a load of crap and they don't know what they're doing, they're wasting time, money and civil rights monitoring people who have done absolutely nothing wrong.