Homeland Security Chief Is Hijacking the Tragedy of 9/11 to Boost His Mass Surveillance Agenda

‘From the outset, federal Countering Violent Extremism programs have been rocked by accusations of human rights violations, including charges that they unfairly target Muslim communities with suspicionless surveillance and thought policing. But on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Department of Homeland Security secretary Jeh Johnson took to the national media circuit to deliver a vigorous defense of such initiatives by stoking fear over “self-radicalized actors” on U.S. soil, even suggesting that CVE programs offer a modern-day version of Cold Ear-era ideological screenings.
In an interview from Ground Zero, Johnson was asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos what he thought of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for an ideological screening test. In August, Trump declared, “In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.”’
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