The Wire - April 17, 2025

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//BLUF: MASS SHOOTING ATTACK AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, MULTIPLE CASUALTIES REPORTED. PLANE HIJACKED IN BELIZE, HIJACKER SHOT DEAD BY PASSENGER. DNI DECLASSIFIES DOCUMENT OUTLINING DOMESTIC DISARMAMENT INITIATIVES.//

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Belize: A man with a knife attempted to hijack a small Tropicair flight (registration: V3-HIG) this morning. During the regional flight, authorities state that American passenger Akinyela Sawa Taylor produced a knife and attempted to seize control of the aircraft. The hijacker's demands included transit out of the country, and enough fuel to do so. In the ensuing fray, multiple passengers were stabbed, with at least one passenger receiving severe lacerations. After some time, the pilots were able to barricade themselves in the cockpit to conduct an emergency landing at Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport. After the aircraft came to a halt on the runway, a brief hostage situation ensued before Taylor was shot dead by another passenger onboard the aircraft who had a firearm.

AC: While it may seem odd for a passenger to have a gun on a plane, this was a local charter flight and the passenger who shot the hijacker was properly licensed as per the local police commissioner. Additionally, local authorities state that the hijacker was illegally in the country, and had been denied entry just a few days prior.
 
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Florida: An active shooter was reported at Florida State University this afternoon. Initial reports indicate that two separate gunmen conducted a complex small arms (SMARMS) attack at the FSU Student Union. As of this report, 2x victims are deceased, and 4x others are wounded. Reports have varied throughout the day, however many locals suggest that one of the shooters was neutralized at the scene by police, and the second shooter was taken into custody. One of the shooters has been identified as Phoenix Eichner, the son of a local Sheriff's Deputy who used his parent's service weapons in the attack.

AC: This incident could meet the technical criteria for a Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA). For the past several days the Tallahassee Police Department has been warning locals of a training exercise that would involve loud explosions and sounds of gunfire. This exercise was scheduled for the exact time the shooting occurred. If this timing was deliberately chosen, this indicates more deliberate planning efforts on the part of the shooters, who likely sought to use the confusion of a training exercise to increase the effectiveness of their attack. Since one of the shooters has been identified as the son of a Sheriff's Deputy, he would probably have had even more knowledge of this drill taking place. Choosing to conduct an attack during a training exercise would have increased confusion on the part of first responders, maybe even delayed a response time, and would have reduced the number of people calling 911, since most people would have thought that gunshots would be related to the drill, and not a legitimate terror attack.

Additionally, some of the videos and photos of the aftermath that are circulating social media right now are exceptionally anger-inducing for reasons that would not be wise to comment on at the moment.

Virginia: Throughout the defense community, several personnel shakeups have taken place at the Pentagon over the past few days. So far, the list of personnel placed on suspension is as follows:

1. Colin Carroll, Chief of Staff for the Deputy Secretary of Defense
2. Dan Caldwell, Senior Advisor to the SECDEF
3. Darin Selnick, Deputy Chief of Staff

All three have been placed on administrative leave following developments in investigations pertaining to various leaks of defense policy.

AC: At the moment, it's not really clear as to what is going on. These firings could be due to legitimate security leak reasons, or it could be for other reasons. So far, no high ranking official has commented on these suspensions, so the official story itself is hard to determine for now.

Texas: The situation regarding the Anthony trial continues to deteriorate. This afternoon, the family of the self-confessed killer held a public press conference whereby the team of attorneys chastised the father of the victim for being there, and called the police to remove him from the public venue.

AC: While it is again unfortunate to analyze situations like this, the atmospherics regarding this case are approaching a tipping point. The efforts to stoke as much hatred as possible are probably a good indicator of how the trial might go, and thus also indicative of the likelihood of civil unrest. Though this is completely speculative, one theory (that is at least possible to discuss in public forum) that carries some weight involves this spectacle being a key part of the defense itself. By allowing the family of the self-confessed killer to conduct outlandish activities while being in front of a camera as much as possible (knowing full well that this will reduce civil discourse to pre-1850's levels) the defense counsel effectively taints the jury pool, so that an acquittal is overwhelmingly likely in what normally would be one of the most open-and-shut cases of recent memory. All it takes is one juror sympathetic to the killer's racially-based defense, and the trial is over.

Washington D.C. - Last night, the Director of National Intelligence declassified a major initiative of the Biden White House to classify gun control efforts. The document, titled "Strategic Implementation Plan For Countering Domestic Terrorism" outlines the plans undertaken by the federal government to expand the scope of what is considered to be "Domestic Terrorism", to include highly controversial initiatives.

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Analyst Comments: Unlike the previous disclosures-that-never-were, this declassification of prior plans to target gun ownership is indeed an important disclosure that provided indisputable evidence that federal agencies are simply classifying ideas that they disagreed with, as terrorism. Since this document was classified and not available to the public, the American people had no avenue to challenge these illegal policies in court. As such, it is STRONGLY advised to read this primary-source document for yourself.

While many people will focus on the gun control angle, nearly every aspect of existence was flagged and tagged as being an indicator for terrorism. Photographs that a person may like, phrases in common use, travel habits, the banking institutions you use...all of this is not just being targeted for surveillance, but unilaterally being classified as being supportive of domestic terrorism. Granted, in a larger sense all of this is not entirely new, the Patriot Act alone helped lay the groundwork for the more in-the-weeds efforts to crackdown on the American population. This document is merely a smoking-gun from recent memory that confirms this activity was not only authorized, but being undertaken on an industrial scale. And, since this document was classified, this concealment unilaterally marked a substantial number of American citizens as terrorists, who had no means of disputing this categorization.

However, important as this document may be, it is very likely that the pages that have been released are not the full document. There is no properly-formatted coversheet (just a title page), no introductory letter by the producing agency, nor any reference to who actually wrote this document or which agency it was for. Of course, this could simply be a series of errors, but this is very much at odds with the standard handling procedures for classified information. What's more likely is that this document was part of a larger publication and/or memo that was circulated as part of a larger project, and the more damning pages were declassified by the DNI, but not the entire parent document.

Analyst: S2A1
Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground
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