The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ (FBI) petition to review whether it was lawful for the federal agency to infiltrate and collect information from a dozen mosques in Southern California over a decade ago. The case was filed by the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Council on American-Islamic Relations on behalf of three Muslim men, who alleged that Muslims in their communities had been wrongly targeted by the FBI solely because of their religious beliefs. According to the complaint, during 14 months between 2006 and 2007, the FBI spent $177,000 to pay an undercover informant named Craig Monteilh to regularly attend the Islamic Center of Irvine (ICOI) and several other Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino County mosques. As part of the FBI’s counter-terrorist effort, Monteilh met with mosque members while wearing hidden recording devices, talked to them …