Sadie Barnette’s My Father’s FBI File, Project 4, comprises political and personal documents concerning the surveillance and life of Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton, California chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, known as Section 9-A. The artist obtained over five hundred documents about the surveillance of her father by filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which was designed to suppress the Black Panther Party during the sixties and seventies. The FBI special agents (SAs) documented decades of Rodney Barnette’s daily life. In My Father’s FBI File, the evidence collected to construct false narratives of political conflict is deconstructed in the social sphere and then reconstructed within the intimacy of personal memory. The redacted historical documents are used as raw material and combined with documents of family history. Disaffected governmental surveillance is reclaimed through the resilient aesthetics of graffiti and portrayals of personal affections.