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Newly released Homeland Security records, made public last week by defense attorneys in a federal case in Minneapolis, show undercover agents spent months inside community meetings at Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, and Unitarian Universalist churches across the Twin Cities. 🧵 ⚓

On May 28th, an undercover agent attended a martial arts class in the gym at University Baptist Church in Dinkytown. She was wearing a concealed recorder. It fell on the floor.

Here's where it gets more disturbing. In February, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction protecting the American Baptist Churches and others — and cited University Baptist by name as a reason the order was necessary.

Three and a half months later, a federal agent was inside their building. That raises serious questions about whether DHS violated a court order.

We've been here before. The Church Committee documented in 1976 how J. Edgar Hoover's FBI wiretapped the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and mailed him an anonymous letter urging him to take his own life.