I studied and practiced the dark arts of investigative journalism, and a few other things, in the pre and post 9-11 era, and I wrote about the (then) emerging surveillance state, and its due process free practices.
Then, I became a target of its wrath, which is expressed as “counter intelligence stalking,”which targets activists, journalists, dissidents, critics of the police state, and others who do not simply regurgitate official narratives.