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Journalist | Books: The Terror Factory and Bad Guys, forthcoming from @GrandCentralPub | On Audible: Pulse, Into the Madness, American ISIS | Signal: taa.10

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Trevor Aaronson’s Biography

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Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer for The Intercept and creator and host of the documentary podcast series Alphabet Boys" He is also author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism and creator and host of the documentary podcasts American ISIS and Chameleon: High Rollers.

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‎Alphabet Boys

‎Alphabet Boys

Alphabet Boys Season 1: "Trojan Hearse." During the rage-filled summer of 2020, a mysterious, cigar-smoking a…

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American ISIS

American ISIS

American ISIS tells the story of Russell Dennison, an American who converted to Islam and traveled to Syria t…

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The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver's Racial Justice Movement

The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver's Racial Justice Movement

A s racial justice protests broke out nationwide in the summer of 2020, a man driving a silver hearse became …

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An FBI Informant's Unlikely Role in Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims

An FBI Informant's Unlikely Role in Supreme Court Case on Surveillance of Muslims

Craig Monteilh was no stranger to federal agents. A hulking man who'd spent much of his teenage and adult yea…

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Inside a Sleazy FBI Sting Involving Diet Clinics, Fitness Models, Money Laundering, and a Suppose...

Inside a Sleazy FBI Sting Involving Diet Clinics, Fitness Models, Money Laundering, and a Suppose...

This is the story of a budding romance, but not the kind that starts with a chance encounter and ends with a …

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Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists

Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists

O n a narrow street in Charlottesville, Virginia, James Alex Fields Jr. pressed the accelerator of his gray D…

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Kash Patel Got Arrested for Public Urination After a Night of Drinking

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By Trevor Aaronson
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FBI Director Kash Patel was twice arrested in incidents involving alcohol, once for public intoxication and once for public urination after leaving a bar, he admitted in a 2005 letter about disclosures on his Florida Bar application. The letter obtained by The Intercept was part of Patel’s personnel file at the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office, where he once worked.
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Kash Patel Got Arrested for Public Urination After a Night of Drinking

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By Trevor Aaronson
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3 hours ago After provinces removed U.S. spirits from store shelves during a tariff clash with the Trump administration, whiskey exports plunged nearly 70 percent. Last year, Canada was one of the most reliable international buyers of American whiskey. Now it’s become one of the industry’s biggest losses. U.S. …
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Longtime Paid FBI Informant Was Instrumental in Terror Case Against “Turtle Island Liberation Front”

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By Noah Hurowitz Verified, Trevor Aaronson
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An FBI investigation into an alleged terror plot in Southern California bears the familiar hallmarks of the bureau’s long-running use of informants and undercover agents to advance plots that might not otherwise have materialized, court documents show. News of the plot surfaced Monday morning in a Fox News report that ran ahead of court filings or official statements. Within minutes, FBI officials amplified the story on social media.
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