There is a background for companies that work not only on law enforcement during internal terrorism investigations, but also directly with the FBI. German says this was especially evident in response to a wave of oil pipeline protests in the early 2010.
The records released by the GRT and Type Research site showed that FBI considers a pipeline operator a “domain beneficiary” in one case, which provided the company “direct access to the White House” and privileged information. The company has also been invited to strategy with FBI, Homeland Security, National Guard and Local Police. And there were conversations about how “ensuring the coordination and management of resources” were not only among the law enforcement authorities but also with the company.
According to the intercept report, a different pipeline manufacturer hired a company to monitor and penetrate protesting groups and write intelligence reports, sometimes shared by the enforcement of federal law and local police. One of the pipeline operators justified local police along their proposed pipeline on how to pursue criminal charges against organizers.
Even after the protests declined, oil and gas companies were close to the police and the government. A Canadian pipeline company paid more than $ 5 million in the 2020s and 2021 to the local ministean police offices. Since 2017, according to the Guardian’s records, fossil fuel lobbies have adopted more than 20 states to disrupt “important infrastructure” such as oil and gas pipelines.
Although it is unclear how the current FBI internal terrorist investigations will be done, Maskak and other Tesla executives can ultimately have a similar access and impact on them. When the cases go to the court, Tesla can also be eligible for government compensation in the form of a court repayment.
Such funds are often used to pay for the families of terrorism victims, but German tells Wired that companies are also eligible. In a successful criminal case, he says, he finds no reason that Tesla is not compensated. Tesla can also be eligible for money from the government -owned terrorism compensation programs that receive funding from the federal government.
Risks for protesters
Investigations of domestic terrorism are often forbidden. Organizations such as the US Civil Liberation Union have argued that the FBI typically uses them for unjust monitoring and color communities and without sufficient supervision.
President Trump has said that his government is taking Tesla’s events very seriously. “People who are sabotaging in class have a great chance to go to prison for up to twenty years, and this includes investors,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Thursday. “We’re looking for you !!!”
Hina Shamsi, ACLU National Security Project Manager, says federal agencies have been waste their resources instead of “focusing on the most serious criminal behavior that hurts life” and have “abused non -violent civil disobedience or Windows as a justification for investigating civil rights and other activists.
Historically, German says FBI has confirmed an idea called “radicalization theory”, which states that extremists’ beliefs are naturally increasing from moderate and widespread beliefs. He says the logic justifies the FBI, which carries out a widespread monitoring network, especially in the supervision of activists.
The German explains: “They suggest that anyone who has a similar ideology can want to commit the same crime.” “We are witnessing a lot of abuse of FBI research officials, especially in the case of internal support groups.”
Five years ago, the FBI used the Foreign Information Supervision Act to oversee those participating in Black Lives Matter protests and explored whether they were associated with terrorists. The DOJ Inspector called the incident an example of FBI’s “non -compliance” with FISA rules.
German claims that in this case, instead of focusing on people who are said to have committed fires or violence, the FBI focus can ultimately be under the supervision of people who think “anger or hostility to Tesla or Elun Musk”.
