The expansion of CVE policing in the aftermath of the San Bernardino, Paris, and Orlando attacks strongly suggests another motive: interest in enlisting Muslim Americans as strategic supporters of expanding counter-radicalization programming and CVE policing. And so the latent political Islamophobia of Obama's decision to steer clear of mosques was fused with the anti-Muslim underpinnings of his cornerstone anti-terror policy, CVE policing, which Hillary Clinton would likely have expanded if she had been elected president.

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of countering violent extremism programs as surveillance infrastructure targeting Muslim communities. Builds on: "Counter-radicalization programs deputized local police as national security agents"

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 322