The Cost of Saying No to the FBI

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, History, News

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI has dedicated huge resources to recruiting informants, particularly targeting Muslim Americans or immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. Saying no can carry serious consequences. This week on Intercepted: Intercept reporter Murtaza Hussain tells the story of one man who rejected the FBI’s request. Aswad Khan was visiting his family in Connecticut when the FBI tried to recruit him to spy on mosques, but he wouldn’t spy on people in prayer. That’s when Khan’s life was turned upside down. join.theintercept.com/donate/now

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0:00.0	I was sleeping, I was stuck in bed, and I heard a very loud bang on the main door.
0:15.4	Boom, boom, boom.
0:17.4	And simultaneously I had a phone call on my cell phone, so I was sleeping.
0:21.7	I mean, I just woke up, you know, loud noise, boom, boom, boom downstairs.
0:25.1	The banging on the front door woke us what can't up.
0:28.3	He was staying at his aunt and uncle's house.
0:31.0	The family, along with his cousins, had left for the day, leaving him home alone.
0:36.0	And I picked up my cell phone, and my cousin's name is appearing on my cell phone.
0:42.4	Thinking that it was his cousin at the door, and that perhaps she had forgotten something,
0:47.2	he picked up the phone.
0:48.2	It wasn't my cousin, whose name appeared on my phone.
0:51.2	It was the FBI, and the agent is like, open the door.
0:55.3	This is the FBI.
0:58.8	Do not hang up the call, open the door right now.
1:00.6	And I'm like jumping on a bed thinking what is going on here, like what the FBI, you
1:05.9	know, and the banging like crazy on the door.
1:19.6	This is intercepted.
1:35.7	I'm Murtazah Hussein, a reporter at the Intercept, focusing on national security and foreign
1:41.4	policy.
1:46.7	Plus what Khan was 26 years old when the FBI knocked on his family's door in Connecticut,
1:52.4	the morning of February 9, 2012.
1:56.2	A year earlier, he had graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, where he studied business
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