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  1. “The deal is a deep betrayal of US law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, a US contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate & help dismantle the #MS13 gang.

    Nixing the agreements also threatens to damage the credibility of the #DOJ, which routinely relies on #informants to build cases against high-level criminals, ofcls said.

    #law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary #Trump #Rubio

  2. For #Bukele, a return of the informants was …a key step in hindering an ongoing US investigation into his government’s relationship with #MS13, a gang famous for displays of excessive violence in the #UnitedStates & elsewhere.

    But in promising to terminate the #informants’ arrangements, current & fmr #DOJ ofcls say #Rubio threatened to undercut years of work by US law enforcement to apprehend & secure the cooperation of high-ranking members of one of the world’s most deadly gangs.

    #law #Trump

  3. While the outlines of the quid pro quo have been public for months, the #Trump admin’s willingness to renege on secret arrangements made with #informants who had aided #US investigations has not been previously reported.

    …The deal would give #Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged *deals* his govt made with #MS13 to help achieve #ElSalvador’s historic drop in violence, officials said.

    #law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary

  4. 🚨 In a plot straight out of a C-grade action movie, a drug cartel hacked an FBI official's phone to track #informants. Apparently, the FBI's cybersecurity strategy consists of "turning it off and on again." 🤦‍♂️ Who knew crime prevention was just a game of hide and seek? 🔍
    arstechnica.com/security/2025/ #drugcartelhack #FBIsecurity #cybersecurityfail #hideandseek #HackerNews #ngated

  5. The #CIA Secretly Ran a #StarWars #FanSite

    alternative_right writes: The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its #informants in other countries.
    #security #tradecraft #starwarsweb

    tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/

  6. #Hackers Likely Stole #FBI #CallLogs From AT&T That Could Compromise #Informants

    A breach of AT&T that exposed “nearly all” of the company’s customers may have included records related to #confidential FBI sources, potentially explaining the bureau’s new embrace of end-to-end #encryption.
    #e2ee #privacy #att

    wired.com/story/hackers-likely

  7. Captured, Killed or Compromised: #CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of #Informants.#Counterintelligence officials said in a #TopSecret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it #recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost. (1) ? Top secret cable but you have it (2) #Trump #documents #indictment + all his people #treason #compromising #AmericanIntelligence #NationalSecurity #spies nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/poli

  8. Captured, Killed or Compromised: #CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of #Informants.#Counterintelligence officials said in a #TopSecret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it #recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost. (1) ? Top secret cable but you have it (2) #Trump #documents #indictment + all his people #treason #compromising #AmericanIntelligence #NationalSecurity #spies nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/poli

  9. Captured, Killed or Compromised: #CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of #Informants.#Counterintelligence officials said in a #TopSecret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it #recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost. (1) ? Top secret cable but you have it (2) #Trump #documents #indictment + all his people #treason #compromising #AmericanIntelligence #NationalSecurity #spies nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/poli

  10. It's hard not to see the parallels between this and the individual people who are trying to get libraries to remove books. These people know they are doing good. They are on a moral crusade.

    Russians snitch on Russians who oppose war with Soviet-style denunciations

    washingtonpost.com/world/2023/

    #Snitches #knocking #Russia #Informants #Paranoia