Homeland Quotes

“What’s most striking about the federal government’s detention and surveillance of Muslim and Arab Americans in the period immediately following September 11 is how few terrorists they managed to catch. Hundreds and potentially thousands of people like Adama Bah were arrested on the flimsiest of pretexts, whether because they had made a donation to the wrong charity or because they were seen hanging out at the wrong bookstore and chatting with people there. In these early cases, however, the evidence connecting the government’s suspects to terrorism either collapsed under the slightest scrutiny or just never appeared all.”
― Richard Beck, Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life