Energy Transfer Partners (#DAPL) hired a military intelligence/mercenary outfit (TigerSwan) which wrote a report for them comparing Anti-Pipeline-activist operation to Afghanistan battlefield intel ops, activist actions as an "Insurgency", and the activists... "Jihadists".
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.
In Full: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-c...