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A group of dissidents gather in a conference room at a Washington, D.C., hotel to discuss the next steps for their social justice movement.
But there, in the back of the room, stands a man in dark sunglasses with his face partially covered. It was an invite-only event, so surely he’s been vetted, and yet nobody seems to recognize him. Worse yet, he appears to be surreptitiously recording the event. Before anyone can confront him, he slips out the back.
A few weeks later, a member of the movement appears in court, where she’s confronted with transcripts of the meeting as evidence that she’d violated the terms of her release. Her colleagues pull the mysterious stranger’s name from the sign-in list. It’s bogus. He was a fed.