BIG: The case for Tren de Aragua being invading narco-terrorists, key to Trump's attacks on Venezuela and immigrant communities at home, is just another manufactured threat, as revealed in a trove of intel documents we provided to
@dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Great FOIA and investigative work shows the one thing the Trump administration is good at is ignoring what the intelligence community is actually saying & twisting the narrative.
By @rshapiro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social and no paywall because Wired makes FOIA-based reporting free.
NEW: Hundreds of internal US gov't docs obtained by @wired.com undermine Trump admin claims that Tren de Aragua is a sophisticated terrorist threat, instead painting it as an unorganized criminal gang. @dell.bsky.social & @rshapiro.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
NEW: Trump warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘invasion,’ but hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.
read @dell.bsky.social and @rshapiro.bsky.social:
BIG: The case for Tren de Aragua being invading narco-terrorists, key to Trump's attacks on Venezuela and immigrant communities at home, is just another manufactured threat, as revealed in a trove of intel documents we provided to @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Our work contributed to this @time.com piece on the movement against ICE. #FOIA time.com/7341833/no-s...
The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available.
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Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: FBI using Trump's broad "anti-antifa" order to target anti-ICE organizing as anarchist extremist terrorism, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The new FBI report is coming to light after we revealed last month that the FBI and NYPD have spied on a Signal group of NYC court watch activists who monitor public proceedings, labeling the volunteers “anarchist violent extremists."
From earlier records unearthed by @propertyofthepeople.org:
“At its core, the war on antifa is a war on dissent, a war on free speech” -@rshapiro.bsky.social @propertyofthepeople.org. The docs “strongly suggest one of the primary functions of NSPM-7 is to serve as a vehicle for targeting anti-ICE organizing broadly as an anarchist violent extremist threat"
An internal FBI report in Nov, distributed to other law enforcement agencies, said “indicators” an individual may be planning to attack ICE facilities or staff include “conducting online research” about agents’ movements + using encrypted messaging apps. @us.theguardian.com @propertyofthepeople.org
NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism."
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:
The FBI has launched “criminal and domestic terrorism investigations” into “threats" against ICE in at least 23 regions across the US, according to a file obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org and shared with the Guardian.
Some cases are linked to Trump's memo on thwarting "terroristic activities".
BIG: FBI using Trump's broad "anti-antifa" order to target anti-ICE organizing as anarchist extremist terrorism, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA
AP finds federal and state authorities in Louisiana are monitoring the online activities of ICE critics. Chilling. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Unfortunately our role and job is hardly ever good news, and we @propertyofthepeople.org now have documents proving the FBI has managed to spy on “court watch” anti-ICE groups on Signal. It seems to come from within the members, not a break in encryption. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
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Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Basic civic participation is not a terrorist threat” - @rshapiro.bsky.social of @propertyofthepeople.org. “The FBI treating it like one is yet another example of the Trump regime’s profound contempt for even the most rudimentary of democratic freedoms.”
Full @us.theguardian.com story here:
NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
Huge shout out to @propertyofthepeople.org for obtaining the records that revealed this.
Another important FOIA release made possible by @propertyofthepeople.org @rshapiro.bsky.social
And @sreynolds.bsky.social is spot on: COINTELPRO redux
BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Along my evening constitutional #NotFOIA
