The machine turns inward
Start abroad, end at your own street. Every technique the security state built for foreign targets has come home — and the paper trail on that journey is unusually complete.
over there → over here
- 01Hub
CIA Crimes
The rap sheet first, because it establishes what is documented rather than alleged: MKUltra, Phoenix, Iran-Contra, the Church Committee record.
- 02Investigation · CIA Crimes
MKUltra: what the record establishes, and where the popular memory exceeds it
149 subprojects, 44 universities, twenty years, and the January 1973 destruction that shaped every retelling since
The clearest case of the state experimenting on its own population: 149 subprojects, 44 universities, and the 1973 destruction of the files.
Read the file →FACT - 03Investigation · CIA Crimes
The CIA and Mandela
How a US vice-consul in Durban helped apartheid capture Nelson Mandela, and how a Cold War designation trapped him on the US terror watch list until 2008.
The same apparatus pointed outward, at a man most of the world now agrees was on the right side. Useful for calibrating what 'threat' actually meant.
Read the file →FACT - 04Hub
Sowing Division
The domestic turn — though as the next stop shows, 'turn' is generous. The techniques were being used at home first.
- 05Investigation · Sowing Division
The Palmer Raids: how a 1919 dragnet built the first federal domestic-radical index and the operational template that followed
November 1919 to January 1920: at least 3,000 warrantless arrests, ~556 deportations without judicial hearings, and a permanent office inside the Bureau of Investigation whose card file reached ~200,000 names by 1921
1919, three decades before the CIA existed. A mass dragnet, a deportation apparatus, and the first federal domestic-intelligence file system. The homeward journey started at home.
Read the file →FACT - 06Investigation · Sowing Division
The Panther/US letters: how the FBI wrote forged death threats between two Black organizations and watched the bodies fall
November 1968 to March 1971: 25+ COINTELPRO-authorized forged letters and cartoons targeting the Black Panther Party and Ron Karenga's US Organization; four Panthers dead in Los Angeles, with the January 17, 1969 UCLA killings of Bunchy Carter and John Huggins the paradigm case
The technique matured. The FBI wrote forged letters designed to get people killed, and people were killed. The documents are the Bureau's own.
Read the file →FACT - 07Investigation · Surveillance State(s)
SDS, MI5, and BOSS: UK Spies for Apartheid
How the Metropolitan Police's undercover "spy cops" fed the British anti-apartheid movement to MI5, and MI5 fed it to Pretoria's intelligence service.
And it was never only American. British and South African services ran the same play on student movements, which is how you know it is a doctrine rather than an agency's bad habit.
Read the file →FACT - 08Hub
Surveillance State(s) and the Criminalization of Dissent
The present tense, and the point at which this stops being history: the criminalization of dissent as a live legal project.
- 09Investigation · Surveillance State(s)
Flock Safety
The nationwide ALPR network that lets any cop query any plate, and the fifty-plus municipalities now backing out.
The infrastructure, now ambient and commercial. A nationwide plate-reader network any officer can query, with fifty-plus documented misuses.
Read the file →FACT - 10Investigation · Surveillance State(s)
Rubio and Miller Convene 65 Nations to Redefine Left-Wing Dissent as Terrorism
On July 16, 2026, more than 65 countries sent delegations to a State Department ministerial where Stephen Miller called Antifa protesters "deformed." Four days later a State Department report named Amy Goodman among dozens of Americans branded fellow travelers of Cuba.
The legal groundwork running alongside the hardware: 65 nations convened to redefine left-wing politics as terrorism. Categories first, enforcement after.
Read the file →FACT - 11Investigation · Surveillance State(s)
Nine Protesters at a Texas ICE Jail Got 562 Years Combined. Here Is Every Sentence and Every Charge.
Between June 23 and July 6, 2026, two federal judges sentenced fifteen Prairieland defendants to a combined 562 years and two months, on charges from attempted murder to moving a box of zines.
The consequence, in years: 562 of them, combined, for protesters at an ICE jail. Every sentence and every charge listed.
Read the file →FACT - 12Investigation · Surveillance State(s)
The First Test Case: Washington Seeks Fergie Chambers's Extradition From Spain Over Hamas-Linked Money Laundering Charges
A Cox Enterprises heir and communist activist has been held without bail in Spain since his July 10, 2026 arrest on a sealed US extradition request alleging a $7.5 million transfer to Tunisia.
And the export, completing the circle: the apparatus now reaches outward again, seeking an American citizen's return from abroad. Reread stop one.
Read the file →FACT
You opened on covert programs in another era, with the comfort of distance — and then found the domestic dragnet predated the agency by thirty years. You close on a camera at the end of a residential road, a redefinition of terrorism agreed by 65 governments, and an extradition request. It never came home. It never left.