Counterterrorism surveillance technology crosses the domestic-foreign divide

Evidence

This was how surveillance worked back home, in American cities and towns with concentrated Muslim populations. War on Terror surveillance, whether at home or far from it, was the same beast and left the same footprint. Wajir, Kenya, like Los Angeles or Detroit, was another theater of the War on Terror’s “field of fight,” where the new “world war” pursued terrorist boogeymen and -women near and far. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The internet was built by US Cold War counterinsurgency agencies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 287; The same surveillance technology and logic operate at home and abroad — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 541; US imperial surveillance techniques developed abroad were imported home to police domestic dissent — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 741 (+18 more)

Broader Connections

• Counterterror surveillance operates identically at home and abroad #expands (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 124
• US War on Terror surveillance operates identically abroad and at home #expands (0.95)
• CIA surveillance technology deployed abroad was used domestically against Muslims. #expands (0.95)
• Surveillance techniques developed in overseas colonies were imported home against domestic dissenters #expands (0.93) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 753
• Counterterrorism surveillance compels immigrant congregations to transform their own leadership toward conformity #complicates (0.92)
• China’s surveillance apparatus envelops Uyghur Muslims through engineered digital subjugation #complicates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 625
• Divide-and-conquer foreign policy tactics moved into domestic Muslim communities via CVE #complicates (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 409
• Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest #complicates (0.88)
• Technology-based surveillance reproduces rather than removes racial bias #complicates (0.87) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 166