1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Coning, Why Minieway coning, Why Minieway coning Why. 2 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 2: A small crowd of people gathered on the side of 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 2: North Dakota Highway eighteen oh six, just north of the 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,799 Speaker 2: Standing Rock Indian Reservation. A line of highway patrol officers 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 2: were standing between them and a construction site. Cody Hall, 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 2: a member of the Shian River Sioux tribe, was in 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 2: the crowd. 8 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: Those bulldozers were up and running, and we saw them 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: moving the earth. 10 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 2: If those bulldozers were allowed to continue, a massive drill 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: would soon bow a hole underneath the Missouri River to 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 2: make way for the Dakota Access Pipeline. 13 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: The tension was so thick that something was going to 14 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: happen physically, and I remember thinking, I was like, oh gosh, 15 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: people are really at their bowing point. I'm sitting there, 16 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: you know, kind of pacing back and forth. I happen 17 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: to look over to my right and I saw the 18 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: women and they were singing their death song. And in 19 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: our culture, when you sing your death song, that means 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: you were obviously not afraid to die. And then all 21 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: of a sudden, a group of women went and jumped 22 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: the barb war fence. 23 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 2: Nobody had planned this. The fence marked the edge of 24 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: the area where police were allowing protests. Beyond it lay 25 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: the construction site and open grasslands. 26 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: I was like, hey, hey, you know, I stop. You know, 27 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: I was like, just we don't know what's going to happen, 28 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: and they might shoot you, right, And I remember one 29 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: of the ladies said she didn't care. She said she 30 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: doesn't fear a bullet, she doesn't fear death. And when 31 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: I saw her take off, and I remember looking back 32 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: at friends and people were like, whoa, you know, stop, stop, hey, 33 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: come back, come back. And then I said forget this. 34 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: I said, every man available, jump the fence and then 35 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: stand behind him. Let's go help. You know, these women defend, 36 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: defend our lives. 37 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 2: They ran onto the construction site, halting the work. 38 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 3: We do this to stop the des secretion of Ujimaka. 39 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 3: We do this for the next seven generations. We do 40 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 3: this for the unborn children that are coming through this world. 41 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 3: We're protecting the water. Our water is life. 42 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: The momentum was there. The people's energy was something I 43 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 1: never felt before in a big group. 44 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: We stand or land in our water. 45 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: We had that feeling that we were going to defeat this. 46 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: This energy company. 47 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: You probably already know. The Dakota Access Pipeline was eventually built, 48 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: but before it was tens of thousands of people arrived 49 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: on the prairie just outside the Standing Rock Reservation and 50 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: attempted to stop it. Standing Rock became the largest indigenous 51 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: uprising in the US in the last half century, and 52 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 2: it was happening in opposition to an oil pipeline company. 53 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: Maybe that's why the company behind the pipeline, Energy Transfer, 54 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: did what it did next. In twenty seventeen, after the 55 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 2: oil was flowing. After police force the huge encampments of 56 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: pipeline opponents and water protectors to go home, Energy Transfer 57 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 2: filed a lawsuit, a really big one. The company claimed 58 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: that the whole Standing Rock movement, the massive effort to 59 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 2: stop the Decode Access pipeline in twenty sixteen, was actually 60 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 2: a conspiracy driven by green Peace to save the whales GUIs. 61 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 2: According to the pipeline company, it wasn't the Standing Rock 62 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 2: Zoo tribe or other indigenous people who led the movement, 63 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 2: despite what numerous media reports, eye witnesses, and public officials 64 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 2: will tell you. It was a giant environmental nonprofit conspiring 65 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: to take down the fossil fuel industry. I'm an environmental 66 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 2: reporter focused on the criminalization of environmental defenders. I've been 67 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 2: covering Standing Rock since the early days of the movement 68 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: and energy transfers. Allegations against Greenpeace defied both what I'd 69 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 2: seen with my own eyes at the protests and what 70 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 2: I learned over years of reporting on the Standing Rock movement. 71 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 2: The story the lawsuit told was so different from what 72 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: I'd heard from Cody and others. Source after source had 73 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 2: told me. Indigenous people and nations made their own decisions 74 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: to stand up against a company that threatened their water 75 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 2: and the rights to land, regardless of how ridiculous this 76 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 2: lawsuit seemed. In twenty twenty five, it made it to trial, 77 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 2: and in March I found myself sitting in a courtroom 78 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: in Mandan, North Dakota, listening to a court clerk revealed 79 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: the verdict. After three and a half weeks, the jury 80 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: decided overwhelmingly in favor of the pipeline company's story. The 81 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: total damages over six hundred and sixty six million dollars, 82 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: a number that threatened to bankrupt Greenpeace in the US. 83 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: I'd spent nearly a decade reporting on what happened with 84 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Standing Rock movement. I 85 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: sat through the lawsuits nearly month long trial in that 86 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 2: same room with those nine jurors. The evidence I heard 87 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: was thin, and yet the jury delivered almost precisely what 88 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 2: Energy Transfers lawyers asked for. How the hell did this happen? 89 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,039 Speaker 2: And if an oil company could push its version of 90 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: events so successfully here, then what did that mean? Beyond 91 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 2: this courthouse? This season of Drilled, we bring you slapped 92 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: the story of an indigenous nation fighting for its water, 93 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy giant using 94 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: the courts to punish protesters. I'm Aline Brown. To understand 95 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: what happened in the Energy Transfer versus Greenpeace case, we 96 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 2: have to start at the beginning with Cody Hall, who 97 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 2: you heard from early. He was actually at the center 98 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: of Energy Transfers lawsuit until he wasn't from. 99 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: The Shine River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. 100 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: The Chyenne River Reservation where Cody lived is immediately south 101 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: of Standing Rock. Both reservations are home to the Ochechi 102 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 2: Shakoine people, also known as the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota. 103 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: The people who live there aren't just neighbors, they're relatives. 104 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 2: Cody helped start the Native Lives Matter movement there, so 105 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: it was natural that he would be asked to join 106 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 2: the fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. 107 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: I was approached by an elder group in Eagle Butte 108 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: there on my home reservation, that said, there are people 109 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: gathering in Standing Rock. Can you go up and just 110 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: get an assessment of what's going on? Cody. 111 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 2: Cody arrived at a protest encampment on the Standing Rock 112 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 2: Reservation in early August of twenty sixteen. 113 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: I went up there with just a backpack of I 114 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: think three days of close you know, and then ended 115 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: up being there months. 116 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 2: Energy Transfer had originally considered putting the Dakota Access pipeline 117 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 2: upstream of the city of Bismarck, which is mostly white, 118 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: but the Federal Army Corps engineers rejected that route, in 119 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 2: part because it could have harmed the city's drinking water supply. 120 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 2: The new approved route crossed the river just north of 121 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 2: the Standing Rock Reservation and its drinking water intake. To 122 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 2: Cody and others, this was a case of environmental racism. 123 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 2: People had begun to travel from all around the country 124 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: to defend the Standing Rock Sioux tribes, drinking water, sacred sites, 125 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 2: and land rights. They called themselves water Protectors. Facebook Live 126 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 2: had launched that spring and many pipeline opponents were using it. 127 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 4: This is the main camp. There are still other camps 128 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 4: like Sacred Stone which was up there, and Eagle's Nest, 129 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 4: and there's also the new Chayenne River Camp which is 130 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 4: further down that way. 131 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 2: In late summer, people began to set up additional tents 132 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 2: and teepees on federal land near the pipeline crossing. This 133 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 2: new encampment, called the Ochechi Shacoine Camp, was on land 134 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: officially possessed by the Army Corps of Engineers, but that 135 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 2: people from Standing Rock still considered theirs. 136 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: It felt home. It took your spirit back to a 137 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: much loving time period of our people. I thought, you 138 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, there's nothing wrong with taking back land right. 139 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 2: The camp was established on unseated territory, an official designation 140 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 2: that means that Ochechi Shacoine people never agreed to give 141 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 2: it up. The area where energy Transfer was building was 142 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 2: also unseated territory. For the water Protectors, the pipeline fight 143 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: was a matter of indigenous sovereignty. The Standing Rock Sioux 144 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,319 Speaker 2: Tribe is a nation, and they argued that Army Corps 145 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 2: shouldn't allow the pipeline to pass under the river or 146 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 2: over culturally significant areas without substantial government to government consultation. 147 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 2: Soon after Cody arrived, he was approached by Deb white Plume, 148 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: a member of the Ogolalla Sioux tribe. 149 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: I knew of Deb and knew what she was doing, 150 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: long before any pipeline came about in our territories. 151 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 2: Deb died in twenty twenty one, but she lived a 152 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: life dedicated to defending Lakota people. In the nineteen seventies, 153 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 2: she joined the American Indian Movement and deb led a 154 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: resistance group that protested against the Keystone Excel pipeline, which 155 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 2: was set to be built through her nation's territory in 156 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,880 Speaker 2: South Dakota. Now she was bringing a version of that 157 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: group to Standing Rock. They were called Red Warrior Camp. 158 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: I remember she asked me. She said, Cody, you speak 159 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: so eloquent, Maitan. She said, I would like for you 160 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: to be a spokesperson for my resistance camp. She talked 161 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: about how people chain themselves to block the proceedings of 162 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: whatever it may be. You know, and I thought, okay, 163 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: especially it being non violent. I said, wow, that's kind 164 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: of what I've been speaking about. 165 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 2: After giving it a couple of days thought, Cody agreed 166 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 2: to be spokesperson for Red Warrior Camp. Around the campfire 167 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 2: with other members of the group, he laid down some 168 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: ground rules. 169 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: But I said, I don't want to know what you're doing, 170 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,199 Speaker 1: what you're planning. If you tell me what you were 171 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: doing and I get picked up, let's say, you know, 172 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: and they questioned me on, then you start breaking down 173 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: the chain of resistance. So don't tell me. I don't 174 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: want to know. 175 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 2: He also told them that he was only interested in 176 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 2: supporting nonviolent actions. 177 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, my name's Cody Hall, media correspondence for the Red 178 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,199 Speaker 1: Warrior Camp and today up here in Manning. 179 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: Cody's job was to film short videos and live streams 180 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 2: that he posted to Red Warrior Camp's Facebook page. Some 181 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 2: were filmed from within construction sites where people were locked 182 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 2: down to machinery. He wasn't planning the actions, but he 183 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 2: became the public face of Red Warrior. 184 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: As you can see behind me, one of our warriors 185 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: put himself on the machinery to stop today's construction. They 186 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: are very near the camp. 187 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 2: The fight against the pipeline seemed to be taking off, 188 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 2: but really it was only getting started. Energy Transfer didn't 189 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 2: have an easement from the Army Corps yet which would 190 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 2: allow them to drill under the river, but there was 191 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 2: nothing stopping the pipeline company from building on private land. 192 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 2: Standing Rock had filed a lawsuit in July to stop 193 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 2: that construction, but while they waited for a judge to rule, 194 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 2: Energy Transfer kept on bulldozing. 195 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 5: In North Dakota, security guards working for the Dakota Access 196 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 5: Pipeline Company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray 197 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 5: as they resisted the three point eight billion dollar pipelines construction. 198 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 5: Criminal by the criminal, We'll get your money somewhere out Okay. 199 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 5: Protesters advance as far as a small wooden bridge. Security 200 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 5: unleashes one of the dogs, which attacked two of the 201 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 5: Native Americans horses. Security has some kind of gas. People 202 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 5: are being pepper sprayed. 203 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 2: On Labor Day weekend, water protectors spotted bulldozers working right 204 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 2: where the Standing Rock Sooo tribe had just identified sacred 205 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 2: sites only the day before. Several people rushed onto the 206 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 2: construction site attempt to stop them. Democracy now captured security 207 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: dogs attacking the pipeline opponents, and the movement went viral. 208 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: With that dog, I was like walking through it on 209 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: me straight, even without any warning. 210 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 2: You don't look at this, Look at this dog. 211 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:17,599 Speaker 1: The dog did it? 212 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 6: You know? 213 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 3: Look at this. 214 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 5: Man, your doctor, protester, you're. 215 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 6: Protester. 216 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 5: Are you telling the dogs to bite the protesters? Exactly? 217 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 5: The dog has blood and its nose in its mouth. 218 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 3: It's still. 219 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: It opened the floodgates. And when those gates were opened, craziness. 220 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 7: And soon. 221 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 2: People from around the world poured into the pipeline resistance camps, 222 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 2: from members of indigenous nations who saw this fight is 223 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 2: their own, to everyday people moved by water protectors, social 224 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 2: media feeds, to longtime environmental activists felt a responsibility to 225 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 2: show solidarity. Churches, community groups and individuals donated supplies to 226 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 2: keep the camps afloat. A school opened for families with children. 227 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 2: Several kitchens served meals throughout the day. By now, nonprofits 228 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: had joined the fight too, like three fifty dot Org, 229 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 2: Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, Bold Alliance, and Yes 230 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 2: Green Peace. It was a powerful moment, but when protests 231 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 2: get the sort of international media attention. Standing rock got 232 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 2: it doesn't just attract the people who are committed to 233 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 2: the costs. Also arriving were crystal chasers, cult members, grifters, 234 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 2: and even professional infiltrators looking to get information about the 235 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 2: resistance to share with the pipeline company or police. Things 236 00:15:54,720 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: started to spin beyond anyone's control. Tens of thousands of 237 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 2: people traveled in and out of the prairie encampments with 238 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 2: their egos and their agendas, which sometimes aligned with those 239 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 2: of the tribe and sometimes sat directly in opposition. Millions 240 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 2: of dollars also began pouring into hundreds of GoFundMe pages. 241 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 2: Sometimes the projects people promised were built, and sometimes they weren't. 242 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 2: At the same time, the governor of North Dakota called 243 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 2: in the National Guard, which joined law enforcement officers from 244 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 2: around the country to try and disperse the protests. They 245 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: brought military grade armored vehicles, surveillance drones, and surfaced to 246 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 2: air missiles, and word began to spread that the pipeline 247 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 2: company had hired a mercenary security firm fresh from the 248 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 2: wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As far as the water 249 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 2: protectors were concerned, the line between police and private security 250 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 2: was a blur overhead. Helicopters and little Sesna planes flown 251 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 2: by police and private security buzzed at all hours. In 252 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,719 Speaker 2: between the steady beat of protests, a feeling had seeped 253 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 2: in that Cody was being targeted. Then, as he was 254 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 2: driving to drop someone off at the airport, a law 255 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 2: enforcement officer waved Cody to the side of the road. 256 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: He was under arrest for trespassing. 257 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: So when I turned around and the state patrolman is 258 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: handcuffing me, first thing I did was count how many 259 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: they were. Eighteen they had helmets on, the goggles, face masks, 260 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: body armor. And then they had their ar fifteen's pointed 261 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: at me. And then they brought me into the vehicle. 262 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: They put me in the back seat, and I met 263 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: with cheers. Right, wait, we got you, you motherfucker. Over 264 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: and over again, I said, whoa guys, Isaac Like I said, man, 265 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: you guys, take it, take it too far. 266 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 2: At the station, Cody says he was stripped, naked and searched. 267 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 2: Two FBI agents attempted to interview him, but he refused 268 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 2: to tell them anything. At night, cold air was blasted 269 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 2: into his cell and every couple hours, an officer would 270 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 2: enter and tower over him. Ultimately, he was bailed out. 271 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 2: As he left, a young officer told him the FBI 272 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 2: had been watching him on cameras the whole time. I 273 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: asked Jacob O'Connell, the FBI supervisor at the time for 274 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,680 Speaker 2: the western half of North Dakota, if he remembered this. 275 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,479 Speaker 2: He said he didn't and that it wasn't something the 276 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 2: FBI will have done. The Morton County Sheriff's office declined 277 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: an interview request and didn't respond to a list of questions. 278 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: When Cody returned to camp, he says the feeling of 279 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 2: being watched was more intense than ever. 280 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: But also felt like that I might be being used 281 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 1: as a scapegoat. 282 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 2: Soon after his release, Cody attended a rally at the 283 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 2: Morton County Courthouse to support other water protectors who had 284 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 2: been arrested. He noticed something that seemed off. 285 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: This individual kept kailing me, and I thought, well, let 286 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: me just let me walk around right like, not where 287 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: everybody is speaking, but just let me walk around and 288 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: see if this person is still going to follow me. 289 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 1: And sure enough, this this individual was so I thought, 290 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: oh crap. The group of people came up and said, hey, Cody, 291 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: you got to ride back to camp and I said, no, 292 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 1: I don't. 293 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 2: When Cody realized who the driver was, he hesitated. It 294 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 2: was that same guy who seemed to be following him around, 295 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 2: but his friends reassured him that the guy was vetted 296 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 2: and had been staying at the camp. 297 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: I just remember there was like thirteen of us that 298 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: packed into this van when he asked me to sit 299 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: with him up upfront, and I thought, oh shit. So 300 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: we get back to camp. I opened the door up 301 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: and he said, hey, hold on one second, Cody. He's like, 302 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: can I have a word with you? And then he 303 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: started to reach on his left pocket of his jacket 304 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: inside and then he kind of he showed an envelope. 305 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: He didn't open it him. He just pulled his envelope 306 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: out and he said, I got money for you. And 307 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: I said, well, what do you mean. He said, we 308 00:20:55,320 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: had Green Peas pile up all this money, and because 309 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: we watched one of your videos looking for support, so 310 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: we gathered up supplies and we have monetary donations here, 311 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,879 Speaker 1: so I want to give it to you. 312 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 2: I asked s Greenpeace about this, and they said they're 313 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: so careful about money that this isn't something they would 314 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: have done. Cody said, the man offered him over two 315 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. 316 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,959 Speaker 1: And I said, no, no, I don't. I said, I'm 317 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: not I'm not taking anything man. And I remember my 318 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 1: instinct said get the hell out of there, get out 319 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: of this guy's vehicle. And I walked away, walking backwards, 320 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: looking at this guy. He drove away, and I just 321 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: remember telling security they watched that individual some sketchy. 322 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 2: Cody didn't mention the details of what happened to anyone. 323 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 2: It was another bizarre incident amongst the mountain of them 324 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,719 Speaker 2: piling up every passing week, But the envelope man incident 325 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 2: would come to take on greater meaning later. By the 326 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 2: end of October twenty sixteen, Cody was clashing with members 327 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 2: of Red Warrior Camp. 328 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 1: People were being shot with rubber bullets and so called 329 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: non violent in the law enforcement area right in their 330 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: point of view. But so Red Warrior people were like 331 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:26,439 Speaker 1: eye for an eye and it started to turn the 332 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:36,360 Speaker 1: They intercre them just you know, just hated everybody, including myself, 333 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: more myself. They didn't like the narrative that I was 334 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: speaking of non violent and just take it right, just 335 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: take it, take it taken. So they were frustrated and 336 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: then took their frustration out of me. I just said, 337 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: I'm done with you guys. That's the way you want, 338 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 1: and that's what you want. I said, then I'm done 339 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: with y'all. And they were like, well, we're done with you. 340 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, mutual agreement. I'm not 341 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: your spokespresson anymore. That's luck to you. 342 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: Cody wasn't the only one who had problems with Red 343 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 2: Warrior Camp. They'd become controversial at Standing Rock for using 344 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: aggressive tactics. On the day after Halloween, the Standing Rock 345 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 2: Tribal Council voted Red Warrior Camp out. Cody had already 346 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: made his decision. He left Red Warrior Camp for good, 347 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 2: driving south until he got back home to the Cheyenne 348 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 2: River Reservation. I actually arrived at Standing Rock a couple 349 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 2: weeks after Cody left. I was there an assignment for 350 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 2: the Intercept, an investigative news outlet. Part of the reason 351 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,719 Speaker 2: I was interested in these protests was because they were 352 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 2: coming at a time when the fossil fuel industry was 353 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 2: especially vulnerable. People were really beginning to recognize the impacts 354 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 2: of the climate crisis and fossil fuel companies role in it. 355 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 2: These corporations weren't just facing a single blockade of activists 356 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 2: at Standing Rock as the climate crisis got worse, they 357 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 2: were facing the possibility of escalating protests. The road into 358 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 2: camp was lined by flags from all the indigenous nations 359 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 2: that had visited. Seemingly hundreds of teepees, tents, yurts, and 360 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: trailers were set up in the middle of the prairie. 361 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: The sky felt bigger here and closer to the ground. 362 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: A lot of what was happening at camp was the 363 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: daily work of surviving in the November cold. Respected elders 364 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 2: from Standing Rock sat on folding chairs under blankets near 365 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 2: a sacred fire that was always burning. Lakota and Dakota 366 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 2: people I talked to told me that what was happening 367 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 2: here was spiritual for them. When I asked for interviews, 368 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 2: some people jokingly asked me if I worked for the 369 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 2: pipeline company. Water protectors knew there were spies among them. 370 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 2: There was a feeling in the air that something rare 371 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 2: and important was happening, but that it could go off 372 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 2: the rail at any moment. I saw the helicopters and 373 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: little planes flying overhead all the time. I followed a 374 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 2: caravan of protesters to a spot where people were blocking construction. 375 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,959 Speaker 2: The planes shadowed us as we drove. At night, a 376 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: row of lights beamed eerily from up on a hill 377 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: along where the pipeline was being built and next to 378 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 2: the camp. Police and private security had erected concrete barriers 379 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,199 Speaker 2: and barbed wire across Highway eighteen oh six. Two burnt 380 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 2: out trucks served as an additional boundary. Right after I left, 381 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 2: water protectors attempted to tow away the burnt out trucks, 382 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 2: and during the protests that followed, police used hoses to 383 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 2: spray icy water at people in sub freezing weather. Medics 384 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,879 Speaker 2: on the ground told me they treated one hundred and 385 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 2: sixty eight people for hypothermia. Here's from a Facebook live 386 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 2: video filmed as the hoses were fired, so that you're. 387 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 6: Looking on those just joining now. Yes, this is sub 388 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,120 Speaker 6: zero weather. That's the bridge on eighteen six, just north 389 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 6: of camp. What you're watching right now is military police 390 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 6: and national gods firing on unarmed citizens, prayerful, peaceful, unarmed citizens. 391 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 2: As winter set in, anxiety over surveillance and infiltration was 392 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 2: causing conflict as people whispered about who might be working 393 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: as a spy for the pipeline company or the government. 394 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: For Cody, weird stuff related to money had continued to 395 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 2: happen back on Chian River. He says a guy he'd 396 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 2: never met showed up in his hometown and attempted to 397 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 2: hand him a duffel bag full of cash. Cody sent 398 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 2: him away. He suspected these incidents where attempts to set 399 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 2: him up. Meanwhile, local journalists had begun to raise questions 400 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: about where the millions of dollars and go fundme donations 401 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 2: actually ended up. Even Cody had run an online fundraiser 402 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 2: for Red Warrior Camp that raised over one hundred thousand 403 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 2: dollars from over two thousand individual donations. He said he 404 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 2: donated what was left to an organization that supported indigenous sovereignty. 405 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 2: In January twenty seventeen, just after Donald Trump's first presidential inauguration, 406 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 2: the Army Corps gave the green light for energy transfer 407 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,120 Speaker 2: to drill That February, police kicked out the remaining water 408 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 2: protectors camped at Standing Rock and a giant drill board 409 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 2: a hole underneath the wide Missouri River before the pipeline 410 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 2: was pushed through, Cody began to move on. He moved 411 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,719 Speaker 2: to Kansas City to join a woman he'd met at 412 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 2: Standing Rock. She had kids, and he found himself stepping 413 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 2: into a role as a father. He started driving for 414 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 2: a limo service, but his sense of normalcy wouldn't last. 415 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 2: In August twenty eighteen, Cody Hall got a strange message 416 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 2: that he didn't expect. 417 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: I remember getting ready for work and a college friend 418 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: of mine that was working legal fund or legal thing 419 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: up in North Dakota messes me on Facebook and said, hey, Cody, 420 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: have you heard the latest news about you? And I thought, 421 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:11,959 Speaker 1: oh shit, here we go. 422 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 6: What is it? 423 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: So I said no, I didn't, well what's going on? 424 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: And so she said she sent me a link and 425 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: I opened link and there it was. It was all 426 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 1: the documents from court. When I read it and I 427 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: was like, holy crap. And she said, hey, if I 428 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: was you, I would you reach out and get a 429 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: lawyer because it's pretty serious. 430 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 2: Energy transfer. The company that built the pipeline was suing 431 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 2: Cody Hall in federal court for hundreds of millions of 432 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 2: dollars in damages. The charges were defamation, trespassing, tortuous interference 433 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 2: with business and racketeering activities that included drug dealing, wire fraud, 434 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: and violations of the Patriot Act. In other words, terrorism. 435 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 2: Energy Transfer filed the claims using the Racketeer Influenced and 436 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 2: Corrupt Organizations Act, the RICO Act, a law originally written 437 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 2: to go after the mafia. Every RICO case first has 438 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 2: to define what they call the enterprise, the network of 439 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 2: people working together to commit crimes. In this one, Energy 440 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 2: Transfer claimed that the network was Cody not for profits 441 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 2: and a group of rogue eco terrorists, and that it 442 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 2: was not led by indigenous people but by the environmental 443 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: nonprofit green Peace. In the pipeline companies telling Red Warrior 444 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 2: Camp was a front group for Greenpeace. They were the 445 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 2: primary perpetrators of disorder and violence, and Cody was their leader. 446 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: Never I never created Red Warrior was a resistance camp 447 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: founded by dev Weiplum. 448 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 2: Cody says he didn't lead Red Warrior Camp either, He 449 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 2: was simply their spokesperson, and he says he never took 450 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: money from Greenpeace. Cody waited for something to happen. When 451 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 2: you get sued, the person suing you, the plaintiff is 452 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 2: supposed to make sure you get notice of the suit, 453 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 2: but Cody never got served. Then six months later the 454 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 2: suit was dismissed. The judge wrote, this is far short 455 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 2: of what is needed to establish a rico enterprise. 456 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,240 Speaker 1: I thought, hey, we actually got somebody that's working in 457 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: the legal system that says this is ridiculous. Great. I 458 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: was like, ah, relief. And then here later that day, 459 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: you know, my friend messaged and said, well that wasn't 460 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: lived too long. They filed in state court. They just 461 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,719 Speaker 1: used lesser words and made more false claims. Jeez, and 462 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: I thought, oh shit, we're still at. 463 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 2: The energy transfers. New version of the story of Standing 464 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 2: Rock filed in a North Dakota state court. Cody, Greenpeace, 465 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 2: Red Warrior Society, and another indigenous pipeline opponent, ined Crystal 466 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: Two Bowls, conspired to launch a coordinated campaign to stop 467 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 2: the pipeline in July twenty sixteen, before Cody even arrived 468 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 2: for the legal walks out there. The lawsuit actually accused 469 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 2: three separate greenpeace organizations of being involved. They include US 470 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 2: based green Peace Inc. And green Peace Fund, and Amsterdam 471 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 2: based green Peace International. But even though Cody had had 472 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: that strange encounter with the man who said he worked 473 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 2: for Greenpeace. Cody didn't believe that the nonprofit was running 474 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 2: the show. 475 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: No, green Peace wasn't running anything. I think green Peace 476 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: is being targeted because well they've they've been all over 477 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: the world to stop actions from climate change to you know, 478 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: save dolphins. They were merely an organization that was there 479 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: as allies. 480 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 2: Again, Cody waited for a knock at his door, but 481 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 2: again it didn't come, and legal filings, Energy Transfer said 482 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 2: they'd attempted to serve Cody at a home in South Dakota, 483 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 2: where his parents had lived briefly a decade ago. 484 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: I called up and I said, Hey, said, did you 485 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: guys say you can't serve me? I said, I'm sitting 486 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: here at home, serve my ass. That's what the hell 487 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: is his bullshit. 488 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 2: A receptionist for Energy Transfer took his number, but he 489 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 2: never heard back. For Cody, this lawsuit and not being 490 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 2: served meant that creeping feeling of being targeted never really subsided. 491 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: It's always a dark cloud that hangs over you. You know. 492 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 2: I had been following all of this as a reporter 493 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 2: from AFAR, but I was off getting twisted up in 494 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 2: a different set of standing rock conspiracy theories. In twenty seventeen, 495 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 2: months after my visit to Standing Rock, someone intriguing leaked 496 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 2: a bunch of internal records to us at the intercept. 497 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 2: This person had been a contractor for a mercenary private 498 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 2: security firm, Tireswan Energy Transfer, had hired them to lead 499 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 2: their security operation. Tigerswan was started in the middle of 500 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 2: the global War on Terror. The people working there were 501 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 2: mostly military veterans, a lot of special ops guys. The 502 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 2: leaked Tiger Swan records I got included daily situation reports 503 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,640 Speaker 2: that they wrote for the pipeline company. They described the 504 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 2: security contractor's efforts to spy on and disrupt the Standing 505 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 2: Rock movement. Here's an example of the kind of analysis 506 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 2: Tigers One was providing. 507 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 7: What the anti Dakota Access pipeline protesters have called an 508 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 7: indigenous decolonization movement was essentially and externally supported, ideologically driven 509 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 7: insurgency with a strong religious component. 510 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 2: Tigers One compared the pipeline opponents to jihadists. Over the years, 511 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 2: I kept tugging at threads, uncovering bit by bit just 512 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 2: what it was Tiger Swan was doing at Standing Rock. 513 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 2: And what I saw was that Tiger Swan wasn't just 514 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 2: providing physical security like armed guards, but they were conducting 515 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:18,800 Speaker 2: intelligence operations. Storytelling and deception had become a key part 516 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:25,839 Speaker 2: of energy transfers to CODA access pipeline strategy. I had 517 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 2: talked to so many activists and water protectors who suspected 518 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 2: the pipeline company was infiltrating their movement, and it turns 519 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 2: out they were. In twenty twenty four, became clear that 520 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 2: the conspiracy lawsuit against Cody Hall the other pipeline opponents 521 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 2: in Greenpeace might actually go to trial. I knew that 522 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 2: a court battle would inevitably uncover even more facets of 523 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 2: energy transfers real conspiracy to crush the anti pipeline movement, 524 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 2: I had to keep following the paper trail. This is 525 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 2: when I tracked down Cody's number and gave him a call. 526 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 2: I was surprised when I found out Cody had never 527 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 2: been served, and to be honest, I wasn't quite sure 528 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 2: what to do with his story about the guy with 529 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,880 Speaker 2: the envelope. I couldn't verify it. What if he was 530 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 2: misremembering some of the details. 531 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: I wasn't even. 532 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 2: Sure how two hundred thousand dollars would fit in an envelope, 533 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 2: but I couldn't ignore the story either. Searching for answers 534 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 2: wherever I could, I looked up Cody's name in my 535 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:29,760 Speaker 2: cash of internal Tigreswan records. Something surprising caught my eye. 536 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 2: It was one of the daily situation reports and the 537 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,359 Speaker 2: date matched the protest where Cody met the envelope man. 538 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 2: I called Cody and read. 539 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: It to him. 540 00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 2: It says we did have embeds at the protest, one 541 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 2: of which was invited to the camp by an associate 542 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 2: of Cody Hall, one of the primary antagonists. This document 543 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,360 Speaker 2: seemed to be saying that there were infiltrators embedded in 544 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 2: the crowd at the courthouse protests that Cody attended in September. 545 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 2: It says, at the inclusion of the protest, Cody Hall, 546 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 2: an affiliate of the Red Warriors, invited several individuals, including 547 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,360 Speaker 2: a member of the security team, to return to the 548 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 2: Spirit camp with him, where the Red Warriors have their 549 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:16,960 Speaker 2: own separate camp. Again, this was saying that Cody invited 550 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 2: an undercover member of the Pipeline security team to go 551 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,040 Speaker 2: back to the Pipeline resistance camps from this courthouse protest. 552 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 2: And then it says next twenty four hours. Conducting atmospherics 553 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 2: inside the camp continue. Social media and atmospheric gathering continue 554 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 2: to gather information regarding potential militants in the area of 555 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 2: protest camps. I guess what I'm wondering is if it's 556 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 2: possible that this protest that this is describing is the 557 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,919 Speaker 2: same one that you were describing where the Greenpeace guy 558 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 2: offered you money. 559 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 5: Has to be. 560 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,320 Speaker 2: This private security infiltrate was with Cody on the same 561 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 2: day that Cody met the envelope man who claimed to 562 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 2: be with Greenpeace. I mean, do you think it's possible 563 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 2: that the guy that offered this money was actually working 564 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 2: for Tiger Swan? 565 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:17,320 Speaker 6: Quite possibly? 566 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 2: Both Energy Transfer and Tiger Swan declined to comment on this. 567 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,720 Speaker 2: I messaged a source who had worked for Tiger Swan 568 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 2: on their intelligence operation. The source that they didn't know 569 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,240 Speaker 2: about anyone at Tiger Swan offering up an envelope of money, 570 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,920 Speaker 2: but they also found it hard to imagine that a 571 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 2: giant nonprofit like green Peace would operate that way. They 572 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 2: wrote over text. Tired ass legend like green Peace handing 573 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 2: out cash. It might have been when one of the 574 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,839 Speaker 2: FEDS or narks tried to infiltrate and failed by nark. 575 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,880 Speaker 2: The source means someone working on drug enforcement for police 576 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 2: or a federal agency. They figured Envelope Man was someone 577 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 2: operating undercover for law enforcement, meaning the Feds could have 578 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 2: been t trying to frame Cody by getting him to 579 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,200 Speaker 2: take money. It wasn't totally out of the question. I'd 580 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,400 Speaker 2: learned in my years of reporting that it wasn't just 581 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 2: Tiger Swan that was using infiltrators. The FBI had its 582 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 2: own network of up to ten informants. FBI agents were 583 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 2: entering the camp daily in plane clothes. But when I 584 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 2: asked Jacob O'Connell, the FBI supervisor, about this, he told 585 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 2: me that it didn't sound like a plausible FBI activity. 586 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 2: He said it would have been a big deal for 587 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,120 Speaker 2: the agency to empower someone to walk around with two 588 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:34,400 Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars, and he didn't remember that happening. I 589 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 2: wasn't sure what to think. I imagined that the trial 590 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 2: might provide some answers to my questions, But as time 591 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,239 Speaker 2: went on, it started to become clear that Cody had 592 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:48,279 Speaker 2: been disappeared from this lawsuit. Energy Transfer only wanted green 593 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 2: Peace on trial. The court date crept closer, and Cody 594 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 2: still wasn't served. The other indigenous pipeline opponent, Crystal Tooboles, 595 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,600 Speaker 2: hadn't been either. Cody had lived for nearly seven years 596 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,880 Speaker 2: with this multi million dollar lawsuit hanging over his head, 597 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 2: but somewhere along the line he had fallen out of 598 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,880 Speaker 2: Energy Transfer's legal theory. They just never bothered to tell anybody. 599 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 2: Envelope Man seemed destined to remain a ghost. In fact, 600 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 2: I'll jump out of order here and tell you that 601 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 2: Energy Transfer never brought him up or his mysterious two 602 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,680 Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars during trial. He's important mostly just because 603 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,239 Speaker 2: he represents Cody's only big memory of interacting with Greenpeace, 604 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 2: even though he might have been an impostor. And I 605 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 2: think Envelope Man also reveals something about what Energy Transfer 606 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 2: was working with as they crafted their lawsuit. Every conspiracy 607 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:48,160 Speaker 2: theory contains a grain of truth. In this case, a 608 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 2: lot of money was pouring into Standing Rock, and it 609 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,120 Speaker 2: wasn't always clear from where. At the same time, the 610 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,600 Speaker 2: chaos and intensity of Standing Rock provided fertile ground for 611 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 2: twisting and manipulating information. There was one thing I knew 612 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,240 Speaker 2: for sure. If Energy Transfer's conspiracy lawsuit is a bold 613 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,800 Speaker 2: attempt to rewrite the story of Standing Rock. Then private 614 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:14,239 Speaker 2: security infiltrators creeping around on its behalf wasn't a part 615 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,839 Speaker 2: of the story they meant to tell, but there they 616 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 2: were present during the one instance when Cody says he 617 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 2: actually might have had contact with the supposed co conspirator 618 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 2: Green Piece. As I prepared to fly to North Dakota 619 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,000 Speaker 2: for the trial in the depths of February, I wondered 620 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,280 Speaker 2: what I was walking into. I knew that Energy Transfer's 621 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 2: contractors had used deception in the past, but I also 622 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,239 Speaker 2: knew the real story of Standing Rock is complicated. 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