Nisei linguists monitored "foreign nationals" within the United States, a domestic surveillance operation now buried under a bland archival label for administrative correspondence.
While the Army Language School relied on Japanese-American linguists, the War Department was simultaneously tracking their communities for suspicious activity across the country.
The US Army's domestic and foreign surveillance web remained hidden in personnel rosters and station lists, tracking targets from Panama to the Korean DMZ.
US citizens are treated as logistical problems to be solved in a decades-long effort to bypass Fourth Amendment protections and integrate military drones into the domestic sky.