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'''CVE''' or '''''C'''ountering '''V'''iolent '''E'''xtremism'' refers to a specific US federal government and private sector partnership program started for the purpose of expanding US federal counter-terror activity into civilian life.<ref>https://www.aclu.org/documents/problems-violent-extremism-and-violence-prevention-programs</ref> Specifically, this includes utilizing Hollywood, social workers, psychologists, academia, psychiatrists, and the professional class | '''CVE''' or '''''C'''ountering '''V'''iolent '''E'''xtremism'' refers to a specific US federal government and private sector partnership program started for the purpose of expanding US federal counter-terror activity into civilian life.<ref>https://www.aclu.org/documents/problems-violent-extremism-and-violence-prevention-programs</ref> Specifically, this includes utilizing Hollywood, social workers, psychologists, academia, psychiatrists, and the rest of the professional class to move money around between self-proclaimed "counter-terrorists". The program was founded during the Obama administration and is often seen as a progression of the "War on Terror" as defined by the Bush administration. | ||
The program has been criticized for targeting law-abiding citizens for mass surveillance, including astroturfing, spying, and infiltrating marginalized communities. CVE has also been criticized for creating unnecessary divisiveness, as well as for using specious criteria and junk science<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/why-countering-violent-extremism-programs-are-bad-policy</ref> to justify their initiatives. | The program has been criticized for targeting law-abiding citizens for mass surveillance, including astroturfing, spying, and infiltrating marginalized communities. CVE has also been criticized for creating unnecessary divisiveness, as well as for using specious criteria and junk science<ref>https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/why-countering-violent-extremism-programs-are-bad-policy</ref> to justify their initiatives. | ||
Revision as of 00:55, 1 October 2023
CVE or Countering Violent Extremism refers to a specific US federal government and private sector partnership program started for the purpose of expanding US federal counter-terror activity into civilian life.[1] Specifically, this includes utilizing Hollywood, social workers, psychologists, academia, psychiatrists, and the rest of the professional class to move money around between self-proclaimed "counter-terrorists". The program was founded during the Obama administration and is often seen as a progression of the "War on Terror" as defined by the Bush administration.
The program has been criticized for targeting law-abiding citizens for mass surveillance, including astroturfing, spying, and infiltrating marginalized communities. CVE has also been criticized for creating unnecessary divisiveness, as well as for using specious criteria and junk science[2] to justify their initiatives.
Current status and activities
The American CVE program still operates in the USA, but according to George Washington University, receives relatively little funding and has issues with staff numbers.[3] Today, CVE still operates in the USA through a medium-sized network of small, near-defunct organizations co-staffed by former NYPD employee Mitchell Silber, including ICSVE and a now-defunct organization called Light Upon Light.
Silber co-authored a 2007 NYPD report called Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat which was removed from the NYPD's website after a lawsuit.[4] The report which Silber co-prepared identified habits such as growing a beard and wearing Islamic clothing as signs of "radicalization".[5]
The CVE program in general was more or less rejected by Middle Eastern, South Asian, Muslim, and Arab communities in the United States, some of whom were subject to CVE-related spying.
Silber's former CVE organization Light Upon Light, together with its now-deceased CO Younes Abdullah Mohammed, had heavily advertised and promoted the reactionary and right-wing incel forum named incels.co, now known as incels.is. They had also promoted its founder Diego under a pseudonym named 'Alexander'.[6] According to Silber, Light Upon Light received, "significant" DHS funding, as well as funding from unnamed organizations.[7]
Lawsuits
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed at least one lawsuit against the DHS over their CVE program.[8]
Successors
Most self-described CVE organizations nowadays appear to be outside the United States, and include a large network which consists of RAN, Moonshot CVE, and many others. It is unknown the degree to which any of these organization still have any formal connection to Obama's initial program, but all United States ones mentioned have recently received federal government grants.
TVTP and CP3
A similar program to CVE was founded during the Trump administration within the DHS and was called TVTP. Biden replaced this program with a similar DHS program called the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3). Both TVTP and CP3 have been critized for the same reasons CVE is/was.[9]
References
- ↑ https://www.aclu.org/documents/problems-violent-extremism-and-violence-prevention-programs
- ↑ https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/why-countering-violent-extremism-programs-are-bad-policy
- ↑ https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/CVE%20in%20America.pdf
- ↑ https://www.rand.org/blog/2016/01/a-symbolic-purging-of-the-nypd-radicalization-report.html
- ↑ Dandia, Asad. "When "Jewish Security" Means Muslim Surveillance". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ↑ https://archive.today/OyzdX
- ↑ https://archive.today/XwnZa
- ↑ https://www.aclu.org/cases/aclu-v-department-homeland-security-foia-lawsuit-seeking-records-countering-violent-extremism
- ↑ https://www.aclu.org/documents/problems-violent-extremism-and-violence-prevention-programs