{"id":82660,"date":"2025-03-31T00:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=82660"},"modified":"2025-03-31T00:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T06:43:45","slug":"swatting-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/swatting-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatting Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2025\/03\/Police-outside-house-during-Swatting-incident-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Police outside house during Swatting incident\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2025\/03\/20\/attempted-murder-15-conservatives-targeted-by-swatting-attacks-in-1-week\/?\">Attempted Murder:\u2019 15+ Conservatives Targeted by Swatting Attacks in 1 Week<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheading\">A series of swatting incidents targeting conservative commentators and journalists have transpired nearly every evening since March 11, according to X posts in which the victims shared video surveillance footage and photos of the events, sparking questions as to who is engaging in what Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) called \u201cdomestic terrorism and attempted murder.\u201d FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem have also reacted to the wave of dangerous crimes.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"a9d-pre\">The term \u201cswatting\u201d refers to an anonymous attacker targets someone by making a false call to emergency services \u2014 using anonymous tools like Google Voice or VPNs to make it appear the call is coming from a certain location \u2014 and telling authorities a murder or hostage event is transpiring at a particular address. Swatting is designed to prompt SWAT teams to arrive at the targeted home and descend on unsuspecting victims, which in the past has lead to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2019\/03\/29\/man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-swatting-call-that-led-to-fatal-shooting\/\">deadly encounters<\/a>\u00a0and murder charges for the offender.<\/h2>\n<h2>At the time of this writing, at least 15 figures in conservative politics and media have reported being swatted within the course of one week.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2025\/03\/20\/attempted-murder-15-conservatives-targeted-by-swatting-attacks-in-1-week\/?\">RTWT @ Breitbart<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GOV8988.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74619 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SWAT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SWAT.jpg 710w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SWAT-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/SWAT-300x369.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attempted Murder:\u2019 15+ Conservatives Targeted by Swatting Attacks in 1 Week &nbsp; A series of swatting incidents targeting conservative commentators and journalists have transpired nearly every evening since March 11, according to X posts in which the victims shared video surveillance footage and photos of the events, sparking questions as to who is engaging in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17631,3786,16280,5445,5464,9806,13991,5594,6613,3644,1928,1635,1189,5543,402,16173,15639,3712],"tags":[2845,3116,7806,256,8664,5989,6656,3406,18640],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82663,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82660\/revisions\/82663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}