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Link to the email here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
2020 FBI Seattle Informants Drugs
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November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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A new FBI email shows that directives were being passed to FBI Seattle from FBIHQ in Washington DC, "expressing a desire to see more disruption"
A, 1 Just attended an EM meeting to discus the FBT response o the Capitol Fil occupation and efforts beng made topursue federal charge. Overal i sounds Ie th SAC i lease with he office’ response to the station to Gate;Powever, FHC has begun expressing a desir t see more distption of criminal actiy i the zone, and to that end,the SAC has passed down some directives,Al squads are being asked o evaluat their CHS base for suitability and acces an deploy ay CH avaible to collectintl on organizational leadership, efforts being made to thwart law enforcement taking he zone, etc basically anyinformation on who the actors are and wha s being planned b the peopl responside for running he zone. tsbelieved tis s particulary important ahead of SPD efots to re-taketh a1.or our squad specifically, we are bein tasked to immediately canvassall CHS's you operate and determine avalabiltyand acces0 the occupation. f th informant s avaliable and ca g0, we also ned 3356s whether that informant wilbe able to make a cold approach on targets yet to be identified and attempt to buy drugs. We specifically discussedmeth during the meeting, and AUSA Tod Greenberg sad that in gt of the current cumstances, the USAO would beWllng o prosecute cases with a lower drug threshold han usual. For the record, | id discuss the completes oftemptinga controled purchase using an informant in accordance with our safety protocols under theseGircummstance. Those concerns were ackmowledged but he expectation fs hat we make an effort regaeles.So with all that in mind, PLEASE CONTACT EVERY CHS YOU OPERATE TODAY, and notify me of:1. The informants availabilty to deploy; and2. Whether that informant will be suitable to attempt to purchase drugs from currently unidentified targets.Please address this ASAP, | have to provide numbers back to the ASAC by COB.Thanks team,sa Matinew zoFo Seattle, C1.i
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Five years later, new details continue to emerge concerning the FBI and Seattle PD's informant infiltration of the 2020 protests.

We now know that the FBI asked Safe Streets Task Force officers in SPD's gang and narcotics squads to recruit any informant they had available to enter the CHOP.
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Link to statement here: housedemocrats.wa.gov/scott/2025/1...
The 43rd Showed Up – Thank You. – Shaun Scott
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November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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After Seattle's Inspector General met with Boatright and Maxey, the OIG quietly shuttered a major audit:
www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/15/i...
Inspector General Quietly Terminates Audit into Seattle Police Mutual Aid » The Urbanist
# Downgraded from a full audit and long delayed, the Office of Inspector General’s six-page mutual aid review did not assess if outside police forces patrolling the streets of Seattle would be require...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Seattle PD lawyer called redacted video of officer shooting Shaun Fuhr a "good blur"
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Seattle PD lawyer called redacted video of officer shooting Shaun Fuhr a "good blur"
On April 29, 2020, a Seattle Police Department (SPD) officer fatally shot Shaun Fuhr as he held his daughter. However, at the time, the circumstances and use of force remained unclear to the public be...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM