NSEERS surveillance disrupted communities while netting no terrorists.

Evidence

Uzma Jamil notes that NSEERS “did not net any terrorist ‘sleeper cells,’ but did disrupt families, communities and neighbourhoods, while cementing the public’s negative perceptions of Muslims as both collectively guilty and threatening” (“Reading Power: Muslims and War on Terror Discourse,” Islamophobia Studies Journal 2, no. 2 : 33). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 763

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete policy outcome the reader can cite when arguing that Naqvi and Hamid write against real, material state surveillance — the fiction contests a policy whose documented harm is this disruption.