ABSTRACT

This paper reveals the secrets of BlueLeaks, a massive archive of documents hacked from police agencies, and intelligence centers in the United States. A September 2019 Intelligence Assessment by the Virginia Fusion Center cites counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen to evaluate the ‘insurgency tactics and strategies’ of environmentalists. What is remarkable about the document is not the domestic application of counterinsurgency but how it reveals the biases of security. Read from an anti-security perspective, this document becomes a cipher to decode the political content of the BlueLeaks archive that is obscured by the deep acceptance of ‘security’ as an apolitical, unqualified social good. The analysis is grounded in document and network analysis of BlueLeaks documents from the New England region. It finds that practices commonly understood as ‘counterinsurgency’ span and animate the continuum of pacification. The secret of BlueLeaks is the secret of security: a ceaseless low-intensity class war that envelops and encompasses the continuum of pacification, protects property, administers poverty, depoliticizes social harms, and elicits participation in pacification.

摘要

本文揭示了 BlueLeaks 的秘密，这是一个从美国警察机构和情报中心窃取的大量文件档案。弗吉尼亚融合中心在 2019 年 9 月的情报评估中引用了反叛乱专家大卫·基尔卡伦（David Kilcullen）对环保主义者的“叛乱战术和战略”的评估。这份文件的显着之处不是在国内的反叛乱应用，而是它如何揭示安全的偏见。从反安全的角度来看，这份文件成为解码 BlueLeaks 档案的政治内容的密码，这些内容被深深接受“安全”作为一种非政治的、不合格的社会公益所掩盖。该分析基于对来自新英格兰地区的 BlueLeaks 文档的文档和网络分析。它发现通常被理解为“平叛”的做法跨越并激发了和平的连续性。BlueLeaks 的秘密是安全的秘密：一场持续的低强度阶级战争，它包围并包含了和平的连续体，保护财产，管理贫困，将社会危害非政治化，并引发和平的参与。