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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:14 PM May 2017

Leaked Docs Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to "Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies"

From the Intercept, but seems important enough to pass along.






Leaked Docs Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to "Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies"
Source: Intercept: Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, Alice Speri
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/

A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. military and State Department contractor helping to execute the global war on terror, worked at the behest of its client Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to respond to the indigenous-led movement that sought to stop the project.

Internal TigerSwan communications describe the movement as “an ideologically driven insurgency with a strong religious component” and compare the anti-pipeline water protectors to jihadist fighters. One report, dated February 27, 2017, states that since the movement “generally followed the jihadist insurgency model while active, we can expect the individuals who fought for and supported it to follow a post-insurgency model after its collapse.” Drawing comparisons with post-Soviet Afghanistan, the report warns, “While we can expect to see the continued spread of the anti-DAPL diaspora … aggressive intelligence preparation of the battlefield and active coordination between intelligence and security elements are now a proven method of defeating pipeline insurgencies.”

More than 100 internal documents leaked to The Intercept by a TigerSwan contractor, as well as a set of over 1,000 documents obtained via public records requests, reveal that TigerSwan spearheaded a multifaceted private security operation characterized by sweeping and invasive surveillance of protesters.

As policing continues to be militarized and state legislatures around the country pass laws criminalizing protest, the fact that a private security firm retained by a Fortune 500 oil and gas company coordinated its efforts with local, state, and federal law enforcement to undermine the protest movement has profoundly anti-democratic implications. ..............

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Leaked Docs Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to "Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies" (Original Post) L. Coyote May 2017 OP
Kick. dalton99a May 2017 #1
OMG. Sugar Smack May 2017 #2
republican-symp corps at war against the American people Achilleaze May 2017 #3
To me, that was a declaration of war Sugar Smack May 2017 #7
If there is any doubt who really runs our country, it's not the Russians, it's the big corporations. jalan48 May 2017 #4
Same as Russia, big corportations and mobster owners run the country. L. Coyote May 2017 #6
New World Order? Keep the citizens fighting over diversions while multi-national corporations jalan48 May 2017 #9
We knew this. evidence. furtheradu May 2017 #5
Dadgum insurgent First Nation jihadist Water Protectors!! Leghorn21 May 2017 #8
The idea of Corporate Wars against Americans was once confined to Syfy books procon May 2017 #10
No. It was never so confined. ret5hd May 2017 #11
Agreed, one of the reasons we have unions was opposition to thuggery. L. Coyote May 2017 #12

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
6. Same as Russia, big corportations and mobster owners run the country.
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:31 PM
May 2017

Same stockholders the world over.

jalan48

(13,797 posts)
9. New World Order? Keep the citizens fighting over diversions while multi-national corporations
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:43 PM
May 2017

extract the resource wealth out from underneath them.

Leghorn21

(13,520 posts)
8. Dadgum insurgent First Nation jihadist Water Protectors!!
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:33 PM
May 2017

We all followed Standing Rock's Stand, eh...what a hit they took, and are still taking.

So glad to read that a contractor of this pack of merc/thugs has seen his/her way fit to leaking "more than 100 internal documents" - good start -

Hey but at least they're "Humble & Kind", eh?

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procon

(15,805 posts)
10. The idea of Corporate Wars against Americans was once confined to Syfy books
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:56 PM
May 2017

No more, folks, it's happening now.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
12. Agreed, one of the reasons we have unions was opposition to thuggery.
Sat May 27, 2017, 03:38 PM
May 2017

The plutocratic interests use force and take illegal actions to protect profits, plain and simple.

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