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Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access pipeline.

Protester Danielle Giagnoli carries a sign to free Red Fawn Fallis as she stands among a small group of protesters gathered for the "Stand With Standing Rock" demonstration against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, in Santa Ana, Calif., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016. (Bill Alkofer/The Orange County Register/SCNG via AP)

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A Native American Activist Followed Her Mother’s Footsteps to Standing Rock. Now She Faces Years in Prison.

ORANGE, TX - SEPTEMBER 05: Members of the Texas National Guard drive through the streets of Orange as Texas slowly moves toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 5, 2017 in Orange, Texas. Almost a week after Hurricane Harvey ravaged parts of the state, some neighborhoods still remained flooded and without electricity. While downtown Houston is returning to business, thousands continue to live in shelters, hotels and other accommodations as they contemplate their future. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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From North Dakota to Puerto Rico, Controversial Security Firm Profits From Oil Protests and Climate Disasters

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A TigerSwan Employee Quietly Registered a New Business in Louisiana After the State Denied the Security Firm a License to Operate

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Standing Rock Activist Accused of Firing Gun Registered to FBI Informant Is Sentenced to Nearly Five Years in Prison

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How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them

CANNON BALL, ND - DECEMBER 4: One day before a government order to leave the area, the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced that a permit to build a pipeline under the Missouri River Just outside of the Lakota Sioux reservation of Standing Rock, North Dakota, was denied and the self described "water protectors" celebrate the news, December 4, 2016. Over two hundred tribes, joined by environmental activists and hundreds of United States military veterans, camp and demonstrate against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which plans to be built under the Missouri River adjacent to the reservation. The gathering has been the largest meeting of Native Americans since the Little Bighorn camp in 1876. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

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In the Mercenaries’ Own Words: Documents Detail TigerSwan Infiltration of Standing Rock

CANNON BALL, ND - DECEMBER 01: Military veterans confront police guarding a bridge near Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 1, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Judge Rules Against Pipeline Company Trying to Keep “Counterinsurgency” Records Secret

NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/22: Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Many protesters and independent journalist, who were all threatened with multiple felony charges if they didn't leave were met with militarized police on the road abutting the camp. At least six were arrested, including a journalist who reportedly had sustained a broken hip. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest “Counterinsurgency” to Other Oil Companies

CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA - DECEMBER 2: North Dakota national guardsmen stand guard on Turtle Island watching activists and native americans at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 3, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. on December 1, 2016 in Cannon Ball North Dakota, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

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Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

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