CIA surveillance technology deployed abroad was used domestically against Muslims.
Evidence
This separation of domestic security from international security apparatuses is of course artificial. Imperial forms of domination are used at home as well as abroad and vice versa. For instance, the CIA is supposed to operate on the global stage, yet it was intimately involved in the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) surveillance program of Muslims in the tristate area. The same surveillance technology used in Iraq in the 2003 invasion, later used by the Obama administration in Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere, was deployed in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Empire and the national security state are at once both national and international. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 541
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to Edward Snowden-era revelations and to the broader literature on the merging of domestic and foreign surveillance (e.g., Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald).
- SHARE: The specific CIA-NYPD tristate surveillance tech pipeline is a fact a colleague working on civil liberties or the security state would care about.
Related
- The same surveillance technology and logic operate at home and abroad (similarity 0.90)
- US imperial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic dissent (similarity 0.78)
- Surveillance techniques developed in overseas colonies were imported home against domestic dissenters (similarity 0.78)