"But no federal terrorism case against them existed yet. The federal indictments for terrorism didn't come until October and November, after the executive order and the national security memorandum. The government drew the category knowing they already had people to put inside it.
And so a fiction that once lived in a right-wing conspiracist's Twitter reply now lives in a federal sentencing memorandum. It is why people I know, and care about, may grow old in prison."