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  • DHS Distributed “Situational Awareness Bulletin” About Film ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’

    July 24, 2025 –

    An investigation by Defending Rights

  • Hoover Appreciates Your Thoughtfulness: The FBI and History’s Most Infamous Anti-Semetic Forgery

    August 20, 2020 –

    The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are an infamous anti-Semetic forgery. Created to stoke anti-Semetisim in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, they continue to be the centerpiece of bigoted conspiracy theories to this day.  So why did an official FBI account tweet them?

  • DRAD Staff Pens Washington Post Op-Ed on Why It’s Misguided to Embrace the FBI

    October 26, 2018 –

    Defending Rights & Dissent Policy & Legislative Counsel Chip Gibbons wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post on why the left cannot embrace the FBI.

  • Delmer Berg Sacramento FBI File

    June 13, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Delmer Berg FBI HQ File

    June 13, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Community Action Commission Files (Delmer Berg)

    June 13, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Letter to DOJ IG requesting investigation into FBI’s Device Miscalculation

    June 4, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • DHS Race Paper coalition letter, 2018

    May 30, 2018 –

     Direct link: https://drive.google.com/

  • War cabinet opposition letter to Senate Democratic Caucus

    April 23, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Haspel Opposition Letter

    April 19, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Espionage Act Statement, 2018

    April 9, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Letter supporting Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports (ACMRA) Act

    April 5, 2018 –

     Direct link: https://drive.google.com/

  • Uphold Section 504 transparency provisions

    February 5, 2018 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • DRAD/NLG FOIA request re 2017 Inauguration: DC MPD use of force

    July 11, 2017 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

  • Sample “Whereas” Clauses for Your Local Ordinance

    June 30, 2017 –

    Direct link: https://drive.google.com/fi

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  • Defending Rights & Dissent Announces New Executive Director Shannon Al-Wakeel
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  • On NSPM-7 Anniversary, Defending Rights & Dissent Alerts Congress to FBI Monitoring of Political Speech
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