In an email to TigerSwan staff and consultants, Rice asks for anything they can find on the ground that shows that the protest camps, not the pipeline, are contaminating water sources around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
Indigenous Affairs
Rice Initial Emails with Ashley Parsons Giving Her His Thoughts on Propaganda for Countering NoDAPL
Rice describes to Parsons in great detail what he and TigerSwan are doing to help counter the protests in North Dakota.
Sept 2016 Briefing for Media Campaign around Dakota Access Pipeline
A briefing outlining the goals of the media and social media campaign Tiger Swan was undertaking around the Dakota Access Pipeline, accompanied by an email in which Rice talks about trying to get the talking points to InfoWars.
Rice Seeking Info, Photos and Videos for Use in Propaganda Effort
A series of emails from Robert Rice looking for photos, videos and information he can use in the “social media counter effort” against the Standing Rock protests.
Emails Between Rice and Social Ad Contractor Shane Hackett
Rice shares intel to feed into the broader propaganda effort, this time the finding that two photos that have been pushed as Standing Rock photos were actually taken elsewhere.
Early Robert Rice
A September 2016 email showing Rice being onboarded to TigerSwan and briefed on the sorts of talking points their client, Energy Transfer wants to get out there.
Email from Reese to Staff Clarifying TigerSwan’s Role on DAPL
Reese forwards an email from Energy Transfer’s engineering manager for DAPL, Mike Futch, in which Futch is annoyed that a TigerSwan staffer has asked him and his staff for a security update on North Dakota. “That’s us” Reese tells Futch. And to his staff: “We cannot ask ETP about an Intel update, they will be […]
Early Email from TigerSwan CEO James Reese on the DAPL Project
Reese reporting back to staff about a new project, doing intelligence work and security for Energy Transfer Partners as they build the Dakota Access Pipeline. Reese explains that TigerSwan will be taking over security and intelligence operations.
