Oil & Water

Internal TigerSwan documents provide a detailed picture of how the mercenary firm surveilled Dakota Access Pipeline opponents and infiltrated protest camps.

By The Intercept

A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill Parrish
TigerSwan, the private security company notorious for its work surveilling pipeline opponents at Standing Rock on behalf of Energy Transfer Partners, …
Apr 9, 2018
From North Dakota to Puerto Rico, Controversial Security Firm Profits From Oil Protests and Climate Disasters
The Intercept - Alleen Brown
TigerSwan, the mercenary security company best known for its efforts to suppress indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access oil pipeline, is …
Apr 9, 2018
A Native American Activist Followed Her Mother’s Footsteps to Standing Rock. Now She Faces Years in Prison.
The Intercept - Will Parrish
After spending a year in jail awaiting trial, Oglala Lakota Sioux activist Red Fawn Fallis pleaded guilty last week to two federal felonies related …
Apr 9, 2018
An Activist Stands Accused of Firing a Gun at Standing Rock. It Belonged to Her Lover — an FBI Informant.
The Intercept - Will Parrish
As law enforcement officers advanced in a U-shaped sweep line down North Dakota Highway 1806 last October, pushing back Dakota Access opponents from …
Apr 9, 2018
DAPL Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Case
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
The private security firm TigerSwan, hired by Energy Transfer Partners to protect the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, was paid to gather …
Apr 9, 2018
Law Enforcement Descended On Standing Rock A Year Ago And Changed the DAPL Fight Forever
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
One year ago today, on October 27, 2016, hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on a small resistance camp that stood directly in the path of …
Apr 9, 2018
Police Used Private Security Aircraft for Surveillance in Standing Rock No-Fly Zone
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
At the height of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction last fall, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a rare …
Apr 9, 2018
DAPL Security Firm Launched Multistate Dragnet in Response to Pipeline Vandalism
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
When the largest Dakota Access Pipeline resistance camp in North Dakota was forcibly shut down in February, the work of TigerSwan, the private …
Apr 9, 2018
TigerSwan Faces Lawsuit Over Unlicensed Security Operations in North Dakota
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
TigerSwan, the private company behind a monthslong, multi-state surveillance operation targeting opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, illegally …
Apr 9, 2018
Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania’s Mariner East 2 Pipeline
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
After months of employing military-style counterinsurgency tactics to subvert opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, Iowa, …
Apr 9, 2018
As Standing Rock Camps Cleared Out, TigerSwan Expanded Surveillance to Array of Progressive Causes
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
By the time law enforcement officers began evicting residents of the Oceti Sakowin Dakota Access Pipeline resistance camp near the Standing Rock …
Apr 9, 2018
Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings of “Surveillance-Industrial Complex”
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
On a freezing night in November, as police sprayed nonviolent Dakota Access Pipeline opponents with water hoses and rubber bullets, representatives …
Apr 9, 2018
Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
The Intercept - Alleen BrownWill ParrishAlice Speri
A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with …
Apr 9, 2018