At the end of March, the pipeline company Energy Transfer won a lawsuit against Greenpeace for $666 million.

Energy Transfer claimed that the Standing Rock movement, the big indigenous-led effort to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016,

was actually an anti-corporate conspiracy orchestrated by Greenpeace.

And the jury agreed. I was there when the verdict dropped.

Can I ask what you thought about all of this?

One of the worst first amendment decisions I've ever seen. I've been practicing law for 65 years. I've never seen anything like this.

It's horrible. This is absolutely bullshit. 100% they're treating us native people like we're not

competent enough to organize and strategize something to protect our airline and water. It's sick.

If you read some of the news coverage of the case,

you might think there's two sides to this story.

Energy Transfer, the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline,

certainly has its version.

Greenpeace maliciously misrepresented events within this community

in an unrelenting attempt to stop the construction

of a pipeline that had already obtained all of the necessary legal approvals.

These are the facts, not the fake news, of the Greenpeace propaganda machine.

And Greenpeace has its version.

This is an attempt to scare anybody involved with protests from showing up.

But there's a bigger story here, of an indigenous nation fighting for its water,

an international environmental movement finding its voice,

and an oil industry attempting to crush its political opposition.

To tell this story, I had to dive into secretive private security documents,

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