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Isaiah Hodgson was outed as a Border Patrol agent last June after he was filmed, unmasked, taking part in the conroversial arrest of Adrian Martinez, a U.S. citizen accused of interfering with immigration enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The U.S. discovered that in 2003, when a team of almost two dozen agents who had abducted an Egyptian cleric in Italy for secret interrogation was outed by analysis of their local cellphone records.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

They’ve been outed; they faced all kinds of humiliation and harm, while the government hasn’t faced any harm at all.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2025

John Trump died in 1985, 11 years before Kaczynski was outed as the Unabomber.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

But fate decided that my parents and I and the three wise men, as I shall call them, should meet one day on the Goubert Salai seaside esplanade and that my secret should be outed.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel