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05/07/2026

Our latest: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/iran-conflict-may-have-motivated-trump-dinner-shooting-suspect-us-intelligence-2026-05-06/

04/27/2026

Our executive director Ryan Shapiro discussing our latest: Law enforcement fears conventional officers might be mistaken for ICE, blames anti-ICE activists, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/ice-police-danger-us

04/24/2026

Law enforcement fears conventional officers might be mistaken for ICE, blames anti-ICE activists, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with The Guardian.

Exclusive: Emails and internal memos reveal concerns immigration enforcement is interfering with police work

04/09/2026

ICYMI: Big: The White House initially blocked distribution of the FBI's intelligence report on supposed Iranian threats to the US, but we got it. And we shared it with Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/intelligence-report-warned-irans-persistent-threat-us-white-house-downplayed-2026-04-08/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

04/08/2026

Big: The White House initially blocked distribution of the FBI's intelligence report on supposed Iranian threats to the US, but we got it. And we shared it with Reuters.

The FBI warned U.S. state and ​local law enforcement of an elevated threat posed by Iran's government to targets in the United States last month even as ‌the White House sought to downplay the likelihood of an attack, a law enforcement intelligence report reviewed by Reuters shows.

03/31/2026

Our executive director Ryan Shapiro discussing our latest: The Trump administration is targeting ICE tracking apps and their developers as security threats, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with The New Yorker. # FOIA https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-rise-and-fall-of-ice-tracking-apps

03/30/2026

The Trump administration is targeting ICE tracking apps and their developers as security threats, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with The New Yorker.

ICEBlock was meant to help people avoid immigration enforcement. The Trump Administration claims that the app endangered the agents of its mass-deportation campaign.

01/15/2026

BIG: The case for Tren de Aragua being invading narco-terrorists, key to Trump's attacks on Venezuela and immigrant communities at home, is just another manufactured threat, as revealed in a trove of intelligence documents we obtained and provided to WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/trump-warned-of-a-tren-de-aragua-invasion-us-intel-told-a-different-story/

01/14/2026

BIG: The case for Tren de Aragua being invading narco-terrorists, key to Trump's attacks on Venezuela and immigrant communities at home, is just another manufactured threat, as revealed in a trove of intelligence documents we obtained and provided to WIRED.

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

12/30/2025

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12/26/2025

Our work contributed to this TIME piece on the movement against ICE. https://time.com/7341833/no-sleep-for-ice-protests-hotels/