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Shoutout to @PropOTP & @_rshapiro for their invaluable FOIA backup on this story. Give them a follow!
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U.S. intelligence has removed "T" from "LGBT" in their reports - including those intended to warn of threats to the community.
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Shoutout to @PropOTP for liberating these documents, follow them for more FOIA scoops
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The Trump administration is fighting a war on "nihilist extremists" drawing on the Army, FBI, NYPD and even State Department, new FOIA documents reveal:
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An elite Chinese cyberspy group hacked at least one state’s National Guard network for nearly a year, the Department of Defense finds.
The report was provided through the national security transparency nonprofit Property of the People. nbcnews.com/tech/security/na…
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"Transparency is not terrorism, and the real security threat is militarized secret police invading our communities and abducting our neighbors," Ryan Shapiro, executive director of Property of the People, tells WIRED.
Full story, unpaywalled:
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This is a great example of how access to public records can inform important investigative reporting.
BIG STORY: FBI's WMD Office colluding with Big Ag lobby group to target animal rights activists as "bioterrorists" for conducting undercover investigations on factory farms, as revealed in intel docs we obtained/shared w/ Dell Cameron @WIRED. @DxEverywhere wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd-dxe…
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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists
wired.com/story/fbi-wmdd-dxe… @_rshapiro of @PropOTP does excellent FOIA work, give them a follow
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Attorney General @PamBondi sent out a memo last month authorizing essentially every cop in America to round up “suspected” Tren de Aragua members for deportation
With no judicial review
Or chance of appeal
This is some Judge Dredd stuff
BIG: We obtained the AG's memo serving as the blueprint for law enforcement nationwide to roundup immigrants as suspected Tren de Aragua members explicitly outside due process. We shared with @npenzenstadler/@willcarless/@USATODAY. #FOIA usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
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We don't know exactly what tattoos were targeted here. But thanks to @PropOTP, we /do/ have some DHS documents from 2023-24 coaching agents on what to look for.
And last week, @reichlinmelnick, @ariehkovler, & Bluesky user TyGrey noticed something odd...
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NEW: Another documents filed by the ACLU is an unclassified ICE document showing what it alleges are Tren de Aragua tattoos. The @nypost also published these in 2024.
But reverse image search shows these images were stolen from the internet and have nothing to do with TdA! 🧵
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Big thanks to @PropOTP for securing the FOIA bag here, give them a follow for more FOIA scoops and consider supporting their work: propertyofthepeople.org/dona…
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Trump calls attacks on Teslas "terrorism" but privately law enforcement just calls it vandalism, according to intelligence reports obtained under FOIA
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Attorneys for the Venezuelans accused of being members of criminal gang Tren de Aragua said their clients were targeted for tattoos unrelated to the gang.
The US government advised workers that identifying TdA members by tattoos is a severely flawed method.
We got the docs:
DHS/FBI docs cast significant doubt on the use of tattoos to identify membership in Tren de Aragua, the gang at the center of much of Trump's mass deportation frenzy, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained and shared w/ @willcarless/@USATODAY. #FOIA usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
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“Gang Unit collections determined that the Chicago Bulls attire, clocks, and rose tattoos are typically related to the Venezuelan culture and not a definite (indicator) of being a member or associate of the (TdA),” reads a 2023 "Situational Awareness" bulletin on Tren de Aragua
DHS/FBI docs cast significant doubt on the use of tattoos to identify membership in Tren de Aragua, the gang at the center of much of Trump's mass deportation frenzy, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained and shared w/ @willcarless/@USATODAY. #FOIA usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
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EXCLUSIVE: We got internal DHS/FBI documents that question the use of tattoos to identify members of Tren de Aragua, the criminal gang at the center of the Trump administration's deportation storm:
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Big thanks to the great @_rshapiro of @PropOTP for prying loose the FBI document via FOIA, give them a follow for more FOIA fireworks
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The FBI is turning itself into online rent-a-cops for CEOs, spying on social media posts it considers threatening to corporate executives, per new FBI assessment obtained under FOIA.
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Show some love to @PropOTP, whose FOIA wizardry I could not have done this without: propertyofthepeople.org/dona… (also follow @_rshapiro he's cool)
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If you expressed “negative sentiment” toward insurance companies on social media following the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, the government was watching:
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The feds work closely with corporate security. DHS for instance has a whole intelligence sharing program that puts IC officers with “private sector partners” to share intel.
It’s not surprising then that terrorism designations are based in part on lobbyist rhetoric.
Why did FBI outrageously designate animal rights/enviro movement the #1 domestic terror threat? In part b/c FBI relies heavily on industry front groups for its "intelligence," as reflected in this doc re receiving "valuable" intel from notorious Center for Consumer Freedom #FOIA
