Let's talk about Sam
#Tunick. Sam is an
#Atlanta activist with Defend the Atlanta Forest, aka Stop Cop City. SCC had great
#infosec, and the feds were hoping to bypass need for a
#warrant by using border patrol. Most news stories are missing the fact that this was an
#FBI action using
#ICE as cover.
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Officer Burnham and Special Agent Andrea Coble arranged for US CPB to question him and search his phone when he landed.
The unidentified searching officer in the indictment serves on
#CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which allegedly gave FBI access to a search power they would not ordinarily possess inside the country.
Sam was refused an attorney and told he couldn't enter the country until "those guys were done with him", or he unlocked his phone...so he gave them an unlock code that wiped the phone. Now they are charging him with "destruction of evidence".
Sam's filing
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.351975/gov.uscourts.gand.351975.21.0.pdf
Red String
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/07/27/the-tunick-exception-when-the-fbi-put-constitutional-rights-on-hold-at-the-border/
#4th #5th #Kafka
