The FBI is coming under scrutiny for recently disclosed policies that critics say legitimate racial profiling in its operations. The policies are contained in the FBI’s “Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide,” which was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. According to the New York Times, the manual lays out a “low threshold” to open probes of a person or group deemed to pose a potential security threat. It also cites ethnicity or religion as a legitimate factor in determining persons or groups to investigate. The manual explicitly instructs agents not to engage in racial profiling, but allows for factoring in “specific and relevant ethnic behavior” and calls for “[identifying] locations of concentrated ethnic communities.” Farhana Khera, of the group Muslim Advocates, said, “We think the FBI should be focused on following actual leads rather than putting entire communities under the microscope.”