{"id":42104,"date":"2018-12-30T10:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42104"},"modified":"2018-12-30T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T15:25:59","slug":"the-infiltrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42104","title":{"rendered":"The Infiltrator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE INFILTRATOR<\/a><\/h3>\n

How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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JESSE HORNE STILL<\/u> struggles to talk about the day he was kicked out of the anti-Dakota Access pipeline movement. It had been an intense week. Searching for direction and ideological fulfillment ever since Iowa\u2019s stand against the pipeline wound down, the 20-year-old had reconnected with some of the state\u2019s more radical pipeline opponents, and the group was now taking on drone warfare. After a protest outside a drone base in Des Moines in which Horne and several others were arrested, two of his fellow activists, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, sat him down and told him to stay away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were asking me if I was an infiltrator,\u201d Horne told The Intercept. \u201cMy response was absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a lot Horne says he didn\u2019t know at the time \u2014 for one, that Reznicek and Montoya had recently been involved in a series of acts of pipeline sabotage. Between March and May 2017, above-ground valves along the Dakota Access pipeline in Iowa and South Dakota were pierced with welding torches, creating new costs for the pipeline company, Energy Transfer, and sending its security personnel into a frenzy. A few weeks after their conversation with Horne, the two women would claim responsibility for the sabotage.<\/p>\n

Another thing Horne says he didn\u2019t know: that someone he considered a \u201cbrother in the cause\u201d was indeed an infiltrator. For months, a man calling himself Joel Edwards had posed as a pipeline opponent, attending protests, befriending water protectors, and paying for hotel rooms, supplies, and booze.<\/p>\n

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THE INFILTRATOR How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond. JESSE HORNE STILL struggles to talk about the day he was kicked out of […]<\/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":[4013,14232,23668,23670,1729,657,16563,5567,23669],"class_list":["post-42104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activists","tag-dakota-access-pipeline","tag-infiltration","tag-jesse-horne","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-protests","tag-standing-rock","tag-the-intercept","tag-tigerswan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104","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=42104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42105,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions\/42105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}