{"id":28033,"date":"2017-11-16T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28033"},"modified":"2017-11-16T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:06:01","slug":"dakota-access-pipeline-company-paid-mercenaries-to-build-conspiracy-lawsuit-against-environmentalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28033","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Access Pipeline Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Environmentalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE COMPANY PAID MERCENARIES TO BUILD CONSPIRACY LAWSUIT AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALISTS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The private security firm TigerSwan worked to build a RICO suit accusing Greenpeace, Earth First, and BankTrack of inciting protests to increase donations.<\/p>\n

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THE PRIVATE SECURITY<\/u> firm TigerSwan, hired by Energy Transfer Partners to protect the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, was paid to gather information for what would become a sprawling conspiracy lawsuit accusing environmentalist groups of inciting the anti-pipeline protests in an effort to increase donations, three former TigerSwan contractors told The Intercept.<\/p>\n

For months, a conference room wall at TigerSwan\u2019s Apex, North Carolina, headquarters was covered with a web-like map of funding nodes the firm believed it had uncovered \u2014 linking billionaire backers to nonprofit organizations to pipeline opponents protesting at Standing Rock. It was a \u201cshowpiece\u201d for board members and ETP executives, according to a former TigerSwan contractor \u2014 part of a project that had little to do with the pipeline\u2019s physical security.<\/p>\n

In August, the law firm founded by Marc Kasowitz, Donald Trump\u2019s personal attorney for more than a decade, filed a 187-page racketeering complaint against Greenpeace, Earth First, and the divestment group BankTrack in the U.S. District Court of North Dakota, seeking $300 million in damages on behalf of Energy Transfer Partners. The NoDAPL movement, the suit claims, was driven by \u201ca network of putative not-for-profits and rogue eco-terrorist groups who employ patterns of criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation to target legitimate companies and industries with fabricated environmental claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was as if the entire campaign came in a box. And of course it did,\u201d the suit alleges. \u201cIts objective was not to protect the environment or Native Americans but to produce as sensational and public a dispute as possible, and to use that publicity and emotion to drive fundraising.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo: Michael Nigro\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket\/Getty Images DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE COMPANY PAID MERCENARIES TO BUILD CONSPIRACY LAWSUIT AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALISTS Oil and Water The private security firm TigerSwan worked to build a RICO suit accusing Greenpeace, Earth First, and BankTrack of inciting protests to increase donations. VIEW MORE FROM THIS TIMELINE STORY THE PRIVATE SECURITY firm TigerSwan, hired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,17056,15271,17057,14232,516,657,5567,17055],"class_list":["post-28033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activism","tag-alice-speri","tag-alleen-brown","tag-conspiracy-lawsuit","tag-dakota-access-pipeline","tag-mercenaries","tag-protests","tag-the-intercept","tag-will-parrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28034,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28033\/revisions\/28034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}