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Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks


In January, Distributed Denial of Secrets published over 200 gigabytes of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups and militias, including American Patriots Three Percent (APIIII) and the Oath Keepers. The files were obtained by John Williams, a wilderness survival trainer who spent years deep undercover infiltrating the American militia

In January, Distributed Denial of Secrets published over 200 gigabytes of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups and militias, including American Patriots Three Percent (APIIII) and the Oath Keepers. The files were obtained by John Williams, a wilderness survival trainer who spent years deep undercover infiltrating the American militia movement – if you haven't read Joshua Kaplan's reporting on this in ProPublica, I recommend it. For example, I write a little script to find the biggest files and I discovered multiple full-length films in there: several conspiracy documentaries like Cages - Epic Human Trafficking Truth (2023).mp4, PlanD3 - Ivermectin The Truth_1080.mp4, Fake News A True History 2019.1080p.mp4, as well as The Passion of the Christ - Full Movie.mp4.

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