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Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules that investigates Americans


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I, for one, am UTTERLY SHOCKED that the CBP would have such an operation.

UTTERLY.

SHOCKED!

 

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Documents obtained by Yahoo News show that the Counter Network Division, a secretive entity within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, routinely used sensitive databases to obtain financial and personal information of journalists, government officials, congressional members, NGO workers and others.

 

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It was almost 10 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Ali Watkins was walking around the capital following instructions texted by a stranger. One message instructed her to walk through an abandoned parking lot near Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle, and then wait at a laundromat. Then came a final cryptic instruction: She was to enter an unmarked door on Connecticut Avenue leading to a hidden bar.

 

The Sheppard, an upscale speakeasy, was so dimly lit it was sometimes hard to see the menu, let alone a stranger at the bar. But amid the red velvet upholstery, Watkins, then a reporter at Politico, almost immediately spotted the man she was supposed to meet: He was wearing a corduroy blazer and jeans and had a distinctive gap between his teeth.

 

“I won’t tell you my name, but I work for the U.S. government,” he said, according to her account later provided to government investigators.

 

 

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