As protests continue to swell through the United States in response to aggressive immigration and customs binding actions, civilians turn to domestic digital tools to track Ice arrests and attacks In real time. But restricted government documents, obtained from the people’s non -profit guard, shows that US intelligence agencies are now looking at the same tools as potential threats. Map laws survey is also apparently.
Details of the protest of “No Kings” from Saturday – specifically those in California – are also guarded by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threatening assessments between federal, state and local agencies, according to internal warning obtained exclusively by Wired.
Late February Bulletin distributed by Vermont-based Regional Fusion Center highlights several websites hosting interactive maps that allow users to drop “pins” indicating meetings with ICE agents.
The Bulletin is based on information initially shared by the US Army -threatening monitoring center known as Artic. While acknowledging that most users seem to be civilians working to avoid contact with federal agents, it nevertheless raises the audience of “malicious actors”, who may rely on such open source transparent tools to physically target laws.
A joint that operates under the umbrella of the Army’s intelligence and security command, could not be reached immediately for comment.
The real estate of the people, a non -profit hold of transparency and national security, tried to get further details about the maps through public records. The group was informed by the Regional Intelligence Center of Northern California (NCRIC) that all relevant information is “associated with active law surveys.”
The NCRIC did not immediately respond to Wired’s request for comment.
“A bill sounds the alarm of unfulfilled, hypothetical risks allegedly presented by these icy following platforms,” Ryan Shapiro, executive director of the people’s property, tells Wired. “But transparency is not terrorism, and the true security threat is a militarized secret police invading our communities and catching our neighbors.”
The documents identify maps and information shared Reddit and the Padlet website, which allows users to collaborate and build interactive maps. A warning of “OPSEC” about the maps was also particularly given in February by the Wisconsin State Intelligence Center (WSIC). This report indicates that the sites are treated as a “strategic threat” and are under monitoring a special operating division.
WSIC, who could not be immediately reached for a comment, warned in his account of constant online threats aimed at ICE officers, highlighting posts on social media as how X And Tiktok This includes messages calling on Americans to store weapons and “shoot back.” While some posters were judged to contain “explicit threats”, most seem to reflect catatical outrage over the punitive tactics of the Trump administration, with intelligence analysts that many of the users “discussed hypothetical scenes.” However, the analysts have flickered the huge volume and tone of the content as an authentic safety officer.
Each document is marked only for billing eyes – a warning not to discuss details with the public or press.
A separate report obtained from Wired and dated in mid -May shows the monitoring plans of the Central California Intelligence (CCIC) for the upcoming protests “No Kings”. It identifies Sacrament, Fresno, and Stockton, between dozens of other protest places. The information is widely available online, as well as on the NO Kings website.
The Bulletin notes that the protests are being promoted as a “non -violent action”, but says the agency plans to produce further intelligence reports for “threatening binding officers.” It ends with a boiler language that states that the CCIC acknowledges the right of citizens to convene, speak and ask the government, but frames the need to gather intelligence on “activities protected by a first amendment” as essential to “ensure the security of first responders and the public.”
