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One, two, three, four, five, six...

Six feet away!

can you come over here and visit?

I don't really have happy dreams...

Yeah.

I have to fill out this paperwork for my kids.

They want to medicate them.

I alone am fighting for the well-being

and the safety and security of my children.

Then on top of that, I'm also doing my work for this job

that I have just got, working with troubled youth.

So the fight continues on.

I started learning how to love at the age of 22 years old.

You don't operate the phone!

Hey, I gave Yay'veontay the task to operate the phone.

So may you guys please allow him to do it?

I'm gonna...

Hey, one of you guys take the phone and go outside.

Alright...

Oww!

You got your shoes on?

Mhm!

Alright.

Go outside, like by the front door, and let's see

how the reception is right there.

I'm outside.

Manieepoo!

What's the deal, Mama?

Nothing.

The video works so much better with you outside.

- Manieepoo? - Huh?

Hey, Maniee, stay right there where the reception is good.

Manieepoo?

My three children were separated in all different foster homes.

My children's mother and myself went through a hard break-up and

we both could have conducted ourselves in a better fashion.

And being that we didn't,

it resulted in our children being taken from our custody

by the Department of Children and Family Services.

The current pandemic has not affected

my current arrangements for visitation.

Where are you?

I'm not too far from you guys.

Oh, can you come?

Hmmm...

If it's okay with your Auntie.

I may be over there a little later.

I am not able to come over there today but...

Hey look, but on a more serious note,

if you can, I really need you to pay attention

to what I'm about to tell you.

Wasn't there a shooting over there?

Like yesterday or the night before last?

If you're outside, right? And you hear gunshots,

what are you supposed to do?

- Look? - No...

- Run? - No.

- In back under a car - No. No. No.

You get down, you prone out.

You get as close to the earth as you can.

You know why I'm telling you this, right?

See that dog right there, that dog.

What?

The dog!

- You don't see that dog? - I don't want...

Okay, lemme see the dog.

If you had super powers, Mama,

what super powers would you want?

To fly!

Woo!

There we go!

I wanna be extremely fast...

I had a dream that I...

I chose that I could just run to dad every...

My visitation with my children is at least once a week,

for whatever amount of hours the caretaker allows.

For seven years,

I have been fighting tooth and nail to regain custody.

I feel like I'm incomplete.

Sometimes, I get so deep into my depression

that I just wanna be alone,

I don't want to interact with people.

It's a fight.

Yeah, it's a fight.

the biggest fight of my life.

Six feet away!

One, two, three, four, five, six...

Dad, when's the next time we go to court?

We're supposed to go to court this month,

the Covid-19 pandemic,

we was unable to go to court.

So it can be next week, it can be next month,

or it can be next year.

I wanna be the judge.

So, okay, if you wanna be the judge, that's magnificent.

Families going through what we going through,

you can be able to better assist them

because you went through it, right?

First I'm gonna work as a dentist for a little bit then

I'm gonna quit it... and be a judge.

Well, I feel like we should discuss that...

- a little bit more... - Six feet away!

Six feet away.

I dream about my kids, yeah.

And when I dream about my kids, it's just like...

things as simple as having a meal together.

You want some?

Yeah, just gimme a bite.

It's pepperoni.

Conversations,

being in the living room,

watching TV...

The things that a lot of people take for granted.

Those are daydreams.

Those aren't the physical dreams

that I dream when I lay down at night,

and try to sleep.

I suffer from PTSD.

My dreams is rooted in the hardships that

God has blessed me so far to escape.

Being homeless as a child,

being beaten,

being neglected, you know?

Some nights I don't sleep.

Hey, what's going on, Yay'veontay?

Good, where you at? Why won't you come?

You guys are my children, of course I'm gonna be there.

What's up, Dad?

What's going on, brother?

You look real nice with your glasses.

Why didn't you put your bow on?

Why didn't you put it right here?

Like that?

Dang! I forgot about that...

You forgot? Wait, come here!

Can I take a picture of you?

I'm happy that my children

were finally able to be placed in the same residence,

and placed in the care of family members.

We're hopeful that, on the next court date,

They're gonna liberalize my visits.

I'll be able to go get my kids,

and spend about 5 hours with them

take 'em wherever I want to take 'em,

and at the end of that 5 hours, drop them back off.

Is you crying?

Say no.

- Cause you're a big man? - Yeah.

Papa, is you a big man?

Yes, y'all is. Then you got

Yay'veontay!

Yay'veontay, right there, man!

Say cheese. Don't cry, okay?

Stop crying.

Wipe your face.

You're a big girl.

Daddy gonna come back and see you, okay?

Don't cry.

You're gonna be alright.

Sometimes, I'm not capable of physically

reaching out and touching my kids,

but spiritually,

we're connected and they know their father is there.

Periodically, I dream about my kids,

us flying...

We'll all be together, holding hands, flying, laughing...

Swimming, without having to come up for air...

Being able to be free, and defy the limitations

that the physical put on us.

These dreams bring me peace.

Yeah, peace, peace.

My love, my sunshine, my dear...

Is this recording? No?

Is this recording?

Hi Laura...

So you asked me to start sending memos about

this ongoing investigation.

Uhmm...

So like this...

We were watching the news about

the spread of surveillance technology

for Corona tracing.

So, the way that kind of global viral emergency

is used to roll out the surveillance projects

in different parts of the world.

One company name was always there...

NSO Group.

So, we already wanted for a long time

to start an investigation on the NSO

NSO software was used to target

our colleagues and friends.

We know that you know what it feels to be surveilled,

that surveillance is not only a breach of privacy,

that it is violence,

that it does things to you,

that things start to happen to you in the real world...

And then it spreads across

your network of friends, colleagues,

and stakeholders or clients...

And that being targeted feels like terror.

If I'm an organization paying a lot of money

for each targeting hack,

the right thing is to target a person

at the center of the network.

Carmen is the head person of the matrix.

So how can you imagine, Nathan,

a way of visualizing something like that?

Uhmm...

There is a way to illustrate it through the events.

Anything that's a sphere is an attack.

It means that

this person on the timeline has been directly targeted

by that act of violence.

So, it might be a digital act of violence

or a physical act of violence,

but it's a direct attack on that person.

When Carmen was first targeted,

if she clicked on that,

it's quite possible they gained access

to all the conversations she was having

with all of the members of her team.

So, from Carmen, and they attack everybody else.

And then in 2016, that's when five subjects raid her office.

Hola Carmen!

I am the lead researcher

on this project with Forensic Architecture.

We're focusing specifically on the targeted digital violence of

the Israeli cyber weapons manufacturer, NSO Group,

and the use of Pegasus around the world.

You are one of...

the first persons that was documented

by Citizen Lab as being

targeted using Pegasus.

Can you describe what you remember

as the first message you received?

The hacks?

Hi Laura, I hope you're okay...

So last night, I had horrible dreams.

I dreamt that I was being interrogated,

and I woke up with extreme anxiety and in cold sweats,

and the first thought that came to my mind was,

"Are we making a huge mistake?"

I don't want to get too paranoid,

but I'm also thinking at the same time

that we've never had to come across

a company like the NSO group

They're very lawsuit happy,

they go after people, they intimidate...

Every single person we've spoken to so far,

whether they're journalists, lawyers suing them, researchers,

or people who've been targeted, they're all telling us

this company tries to intimidate, to scare,

to make your life hell,

just so that you go away.

As an Arab, we have interest in

what is going on in the Arab world.

it's like a personal matter

as well as a legal matter.

This is not the first time that we've been targeted

or that we were under surveillance

by the Indian state.

A lot of my contacts, when I told them,

look this is happening to me,

They said, "We always presumed this would happen to you

"so don't worry, we all prepared for it.

"You must be doing something really wonderful

the government's spending

a lot of money on this."

These are the phones.

They're all active?

All active.

when you study journalism,

you take for granted that

the government is going to be after you.

And we are the lucky ones

use in so many regions in Mexico,

they get a bullet, they don't get a message...

They get a bullet.

I'm not sure we can make the argument

the NSO is enabling,

in terms of operationalizing its surveillance

into direct violence,

is new territory, right?

I mean the CIA and NSA do that all the time.

What I think is new is that we can see the fingerprints

and we can show it.

I think that that points to something that

I would say might be new territory,

which is a private company manufacturing and selling

nation state-level cyberweapons.

There is something of a viral logic

about this form of targeting

in a way that it spreads between family members,

but also the people that investigate those crimes.

If we know that X activist was targeted on this date

and then immediately following that,

something physical happened...

Like if one of those threads could be drawn

through the database.

This is the underlying logic of this investigation...

Digital vs. physical violence. So let's start with that.

Look at the same pattern,

across in when and how does it happen in Mexico,

when and how does this kind of relation happen in the UAE,

when it happens in Rwanda, when it happens in India,

if you have data about that,

and find a way to move

between one field of operation to the other.

All the information is there, but this is now

the mobilization of the data.

It is not now about simply plotting

because this material is being plotted,

political events are there plotted on a timeline,

there are physical events...

It's now you have all the strings,

and now you start playing music on them.

You go like, "I'm just gonna use these notes."

Ta, ta, ta, ta... is targeting.

I'm gonna zoom in a little.

So if we go into the front view,

here we have the field of Mexico...

So, from on top, it appears just as a line...

collapsed into a single field. So this is Mexico.

But then if we view it from the side,

we see all of the targets, all the people who've been targeted

by NSO software inside Mexico.

So when we're seeing it in 3D, for example,

we can see that some targets are operating in multiple fields,

for example, Mazen and Citizen Lab operate

in Mexico, Saudi Arabia and UAE.

Our current database includes every event that we have

which is an attack that's been performed using NSO software.

And that database lists all the people

that have been targeted by

the state that has bought NSO software

and is doing the targeting.

I remember the moment when the project

gained urgency in my mind,

and that was with Fleming.

This is NSO's first so-called "civilian product."

It was described as a contact tracing tool to monitor both

those who had caught Covid-19,

but also those that they had come into contact with.

It was reported that Fleming had been marketed to

dozens of health ministries around the world.

So, it was a set of alarm bells in my mind

that the same cyber weapons manufacturer

that had targeted former collaborators

of Forensic Architecture,

targeted my own personal friends and colleagues,

and these are all human rights activists,

researchers, lawyers, journalists...

This same company is now offering its services

to deal with private health details.

When I first started working on these cases,

it was clear that

we're dealing with a company that

does not have a lot of respect for human rights.

Also if you look at the reporting about the company,

the value of the company,

the money that's involved,

we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars.

Of course a lot of the people in Mexico

that you represent have lost their jobs,

they've had their offices broken into,

they've had their partners killed.

And so the state kills 43 students in Ayotzinapa,

people report on it, they get hacked,

lawyers get targeted, and so on.

And so a lot of what we're seeing

along the way is this escalation,

this rise in the way that people are targeted.

Not only they would gather information,

but also they can send messages.

So they can start managing your relationship with people

by sending them all kind of information,

messages that supposedly come from you.

It's like somebody's sitting in your mind.

The NSO group stands for the 3 persons

who founded the company in 2010.

Shalev Hulio is the S in NSO and

perhaps the more well-known of the three.

He's not exactly a technical wizard.

He did not serve in Unit 8200,

which is the intelligence unit in the Israeli Army.

But Shalev Hulio did serve in the Israeli Army,

and as a commander,

he was involved in a series of operations

in the occupied West Bank.

One of his operations was during the height

of the Second Intifada in 2002,

Operation Defensive Shield.

extremely destructive operation

involved sending soldiers

straight through the walls of Palestinian homes, so

instead of fighting their way

through the alleyways of the camp,

Israeli soldiers would smash their way

through civilian homes to clear a path,

blasting their way through the built environment,

and mobilizing people's homes against their bodies.

Do you currently...? Do you hold a security clearance right now?

Nope, I've been this whistleblower guy in the past.

My interests lie in helping to get

whatever should be public, public.

So you can think of me as a

solutions executive with a software company.

What it boiled down to was that we had access to the networks,

and NSO was looking for access.

So the access to the network would be...

They would get a global title.

They would have a piece of software into it

that would have access

to the live operator network.

This was a conference call.

They were very hesitant to share their names.

I took their names and email addresses

just in the event something bad were to happen.

So I met with all these people...

Omri, Eddy Shalev, Eran Gorev...

Wow.

There's a tremendous amount of value in that,

to get access to operator signaling networks.

It made me very uncomfortable.

I did reach out to the FBI, multiple times...

Do you know what happened with that information?

I don't know, it was very silent after that.

It's gonna take a second to process this.

And are you in a position

where you could provide access globally

or just in the US or in what countries?

Globally.

In July, I had a meeting with some executives at the NSO Group

who provides black box spyware for global governments...

They requested access to mobile networks via our software

and offered cash payments...

Hey, it's me.

So I'm having all these flashbacks.

The first time Snowden contacted me,

I was sitting here, I was in this room.

There was a kind of demarcation

of my life, before and after.

Those I could trust,

and then people who enter my life after,

who are always in question, right?

Uhmm...

And even the people you knew before

can always be flipped.

And so...

Listening to people tell this story

about this kind of surveillance...

It just hits home, right? It's super unnerving.

from my country under

the risk of being arrested.

The field that I'm focusing on, it's a very sensitive field.

I'm trying to record the violations of human rights,

how they treat prisoners, detainees,

if they were tortured...

And my father, he is one of the detainees so

I want to speak about him, and raise his case.

And I'm his daughter, I have to do something.

I have to tell you,

as you're talking I'm trying to...

Laura has definitely her experiences

targeted and surveilled.

My experiences with state violence are...

have so far been more physical.

In my family, we left Iran when we were young,

and I'm just thinking that we left for political reasons,

my parents were both political prisoners,

and when we came here, we continued our politics...

We would go to protest every week

with other Iranian, Afghan...

Kurdish refugees.

My mother was part of the

International Federation of Iranian Refugees,

and she did it here because she was away from Iran.

If she were to do that today,

the Islamic Republic would be able to

reach out and touch her, so to speak,

in the way that your home government

is reaching out and touching you.

It's a completely different ball game for activists,

and especially activists coming from places where...

There is much more of a physical cost in resisting.

between digital violence

and physical violence

becomes the most clear when we look at the cases

from Saudi Arabia.

He's writing articles, he's doing columns,

he's giving talks.

Then Omar Abdulazziz and Khashoggi communicate,

and right after that,

Abdulazziz gets targeted digitally.

They communicated almost on a daily basis.

That means that all the messages

that they exchanged were there to be hacked

because they were all saved on the WhatsApp account.

That was a treasure that the government of Saudi Arabia found

because they just discovered the nature of the relationship

between two big dissidents.

One month before they killed him,

he sent me a private message on Twitter

when I was attacked by Saudi bots and trolls.

He told me, "Ghada, block them,

"ignore them, and don't get upset.

"Just block them like I do."

And every day, the more we discovered

what happened to him and how he was...

how he went in, how they told him to sit down,

how they came with the saw,

how... when they started to...

When he couldn't breathe, and then, you know, I was...

The details, you know, it was so...

I don't know how to describe it actually, it's a nightmare.

My heart starts beating and I say, "God, please...

"Let it be quickly, let me read something

"that says he didn't suffer."

He didn't have time to realize that he was killed

by his own government, by his own people.

This assassination was empowered with Israeli software,

and since then, Saudi Arabia hasn't paid a price

because of its alliances with America,

investments in Europe, and so on.

So it's really the dispensability of our lives.

That's something that became very clear.

Officially on the record,

NSO isn't allowed to operate in the United States.

But it's attempted to enter American markets

for the sale of its hacking software

at least a couple of times that we know about.

In 2016, they reached out to the San Diego Police Department

to sell a version of Pegasus called Phantom.

The brochure for Phantom boasts that it can intercept calls,

do location tracking,

access a person's messages,

their browsing history, their social networks,

their contact lists.

So, we now know there is an appetite from the U.S. police

for these kinds of tools.

But in the context of a pandemic,

where we are seeing rising inequality,

in a context where communities are protesting en masse

against racialized policing,

it's extremely fucking scary

what incredible damage

tools like Pegasus and Phantom

can do in the hands of law enforcement.

Dear Clyde,

Your brother didn't make it.

I don't have all the details,

but I wanted you to hear it from me first.

The Lord's been looking out for me,

and I guess He saw it fit to let me know.

He's called my sweet boy, your brother, to His side.

As you know, he was doing poorly,

but I'd hoped he'd hang in there until

I made it back to fetch him.

I guess it wasn't meant to be.

I'll be...

I'll be hitting the road in the morning

to see him one last time

before they bury him.

I will let you know what I find out.

Love, Dad.

Dear Clyde,

I saw your brother today.

They had him set up in the church,

him and all the rest of the dead.

They wouldn't let me through the door for fear of catching it

but I could see him from the threshold.

So tiny.

Just like he always was.

They didn't tell me they were Presbyterians.

I don't know how I feel about that.

I don't know how I feel about them being the ones

to bury him neither.

But they say they can't release any of them bodies

that don't have kin,

be they Baptists, or Catholic or Buddhists even.

Those are the rules.

It was strange being back in a church.

I didn't feel unwelcome.

Nor did they cast an untowards eye at me

when they heard my name.

Maybe they don't know who I am.

Wouldn't that be something?

they're just being kind.

I haven't led the best life...

I know you know this,

but I hope some day we can talk about it.

I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

Or, if not that, then to understand me.

And think of me with something that isn't disappointment.

A fellow just walked through here with his face

all cut to pieces.

I wonder what his story is.

I look at the world sometimes and

think it a wonder that I still recognize it.

I wonder if I'd recognize you.

I would call you if I had your number.

But...

Long silences are best endured in person.

And I imagine, you and I, we'd have plenty of those.

If you want to write, you can do so in care of

the St. James Presbyterian Church...

in Mildred.

That's where your brother is.

And that's where you'll be able to find me,

at least until he's good and buried.

Please do write.

Let me know you got this.

Please leave your message...

Love, Dad.

Clyde, I took him.

I couldn't let them do it.

It just wasn't right.

I didn't make a fuss about it.

stole into the rectory at night,

took his body in my arms,

and bore him out of there.

I was going to drive him back to Texas because

I wanted to bury him next to your Ma.

But before I even got to the border,

that poor boy started to turn foul.

I wrapped him in his sheet and found a good spot for him...

where he'd be safe.

It's too late for me now, but I got this notion that,

you might finish what I started.

It wouldn't be hard to find him if you knew where to look,

so I drew you this map.

Take the highway west out of Dallas,

until you get to Neta Road.

Go north.

When you get to the church on your left,

look for the old wagon path on the right.

And take that until you get to the river.

Stop when you get to the end of it.

Thirteen paces from the river,

between the two tallest elms is where I buried him.

Deep enough that the coyotes won't find him.

But not so deep that you'll have to dig for long.

If you were to fetch him,

and take him back to where he belongs,

I could rest easy.

I could say I've done all I need to do in this world.

But don't do it for me.

He loved you so.

And even now,

under all that dirt,

I know he doesn't want to be alone.

I trust these letters are making their way to you.

I trust you've been hearing what people say about me, too.

But I hope you know there's more to me than that.

I think back often to the last time we were all together.

You and me and your brother.

And your Ma...

in that little house in Medford.

Even back then, I was failing every step I took.

But with you two, I got things right.

Clyde.

I won't write again.

But know that I love you.

I surely do.

Dear Clyde...

Daddy said you'd be coming.

said you'd be coming to get me.

I can hear you digging.

I can hear you getting closer.

And...

I wish I could tell you to stop.

wish I could tell you I'm happy.

And that I just want to go on resting.

But I guess I can't.

'Cause there you are.

And I don't know...

You look different than I remember.

I wonder what happened to you.

what the world looks like now.

I guess you'll tell me what's changed,

and what I missed out on.

I didn't much like things the way they were

when Daddy was around.

But maybe that was because of him.

that was just everyone.

f the people I thought were good

turned out to be bad.

And I just want to sleep...

so that I wouldn't have to see them.

I remember this one lady...

She would take me to the window and let me look out.

And there were birds in the sky.

And even though it hurt so bad,

she would look at me and say,

"Well, at least it's a beautiful day."

it's a beautiful day."

But I don't know if it was.

I don't know if it ever was.

I don't know if it ever will be again.

Will it?

But she would go on smiling all the same.

And we'd sit and look out the window.

And watch it get dark.

Night Colonies

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