High-Ranking Official Fired Over Sensitive Information Leak
A senior official from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been dismissed following allegations of leaking sensitive information about agents and border wall negotiations. According to internal sources, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) terminated the unnamed individual after uncovering the breach, escorting him out of his Washington, DC office.
The incident comes amid a growing concern over the safety of law enforcement personnel, with DHS reporting an 8,000 percent increase in death threats directed at its agents. A spokesperson for the department stated, “Leaking law enforcement sensitive information is abhorrently dangerous.”
This development follows a recent investigation by Fox News Digital, which uncovered an underground network allegedly used by anti-ICE activists to monitor federal agents and disrupt operations. The investigation revealed that this network collects and stores data across at least 13 database systems nationwide.
Spread across a web of over 200 anti-ICE groups, activists are reportedly using this data to doxx agents, track their license plates, and release personal information. This includes photographs, uniform details, and behavioral patterns of federal agents. It remains unclear whether the fired official had any connection to these groups, as the DHS has only confirmed that information was leaked to the press.
The probe found that access to sensitive information is a key motivator for ‘agitators’ who target cities like Minneapolis during major demonstrations. A department spokesperson emphasized, “DHS is agnostic about your standing, tenure, political appointment, or status as a career civil servant. We will track down leakers and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”
FBI Director Kash Patel recently revealed that the bureau has launched an investigation into the use of the encrypted Signal messaging platform by ‘ICE Watch’ activists. Fox’s investigation highlighted that hundreds of groups are creating civilian intelligence ‘rapid response systems’ to prepare civilians to act as on-the-ground operatives.
These groups are said to be trained using the SALUTE method, an acronym for Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, and Equipment. The collected data is entered into sophisticated databases, capturing timestamps, geolocation details, and, in some cases, personal contact information of federal authorities, including names, emails, and phone numbers.
The network reportedly operates out of at least 18 hubs nationwide—mostly in Democratic-leaning states and cities—using the data to systematically monitor federal officials labeled as the ‘enemy.’ Retired US Army Green Beret Eric Schwalm described the situation as “mind-blowing,” stating, “We have an entire nation of collectors against our country’s law enforcement. It’s extremely dangerous.”
Schwalm, who applied the SALUTE framework during patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan, personally reviewed the details of the network uncovered in the outlet’s investigation. He noted, “If Iraqi resistance ran this level of operation against us, we couldn’t have stayed past 2007. They didn’t even need to shoot at us. Protests like this would have created a narrative nightmare.”
Trained and allegedly ‘well-funded agitators’ have repeatedly clashed with federal agents, with some encounters turning deadly. Recent incidents include the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. One arrest involved 37-year-old Kyle Wagner of Minneapolis, a self-described Antifa member who allegedly urged his followers to ‘get your guns’ and target ICE agents, according to a video obtained by Fox News Digital.
In a statement following the arrest, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated Wagner “allegedly doxxed and called for the murder of law enforcement officers, encouraged bloodshed in the streets and proudly claimed affiliation with the terrorist organization Antifa before going on the run.”
Jill Garvey, co-founder of ‘States at the Core,’ recently trained a new group of ‘rapid responders,’ claiming she taught 40,000 individuals over the past year alone, according to Fox’s investigation. She structured her operation to monitor agents she had recently described as ‘mercenaries.’
In a training session last week, Garvey reportedly conducted the session like a field briefing, putting the new recruits through intensive exercises. She allegedly assessed the scouts’ ability to spot a ‘tactical unit,’ gauge the types and quantities of munitions, and determine if agents were operating in four-, two- or six-man formations.
Garvey outlined three operational roles for her recruits: recorder, supporter, and monitor. Activists were instructed to carry whistles with coded signals—three blasts indicating an ICE operation in progress—and to make themselves visible at protests so others would know they were ‘part of the team.’
Rafael Concepcion, who previously taught photography at Syracuse University, said he plans to develop ‘a score’ of ICE-tracking databases, using a mapping platform he introduced last year. He claimed the project would form a ‘network of digital minutemen,’ ready to track federal authorities at a moment’s notice.
Concepcion also claimed that the SALUTE method allows activists to distinguish between local police and federal immigration officers. “One of the things that our constitution has tried to be able to provide is an avenue for individuals to make sure that they are aware of any kind of tyrannical government,” he told Fox.
Since the FBI launched its investigation into activists using the covert Signal platform, the databases have grown to 5,397 entries, documenting ‘confirmed’ or ‘highly suspected’ ICE agents and vehicles, complete with all the information needed to track them, according to the outlet.
According to the database, it is “documenting and resisting against ICE, police and all colonial militarized regimes,” inspired by “movements towards liberation.”
