FOIA Request Shows Feds Were Gathering Intel On Occupy Wall Street BEFORE The First Tent Went Up!

[kpete]

FOIA Request Shows Feds Were Gathering Intelligence On Occupy Wall Street Before The First Tent Went Up

A trove of documents released today by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a FOIA request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee reveal that federal law enforcement agencies began their coordinated intelligence gathering and operations on the Occupy movement even before the first tent went up in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011.

On September 17, 2011, a Secret Service intelligence entry in its Prism Demonstrations Abstract file records the opening of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. The demonstration location that the Secret Service was protecting? The “Wall Street Bull.” The name of the Protectee? The “U.S. Government.”

American taxpayers might find it odd to learn that the Secret Service was on duty to protect the Wall Street Bull in the name of protecting the U.S. Government. But there it is.

These documents, many of which are redacted, show that the highest officials in the Department of Homeland Security were preoccupied with the Occupy movement and have gone out of their way to project the appearance of an absence of federal involvement in the monitoring of and crackdown on Occupy.


the rest:
http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/dhs.html
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/foia-request-shows-feds-were-gatherin

[ProfessionalLeftist]

1. That's because Wall St. IS the U.S. government

That is the problem and is why OWS exists. OWS is onto it and the US gov't aka Wall St. knows it.

[tk2kewl]

2. K&R

[freshwest]

3. All the planning, etc. were online. Corporations own and sell that data. No surprise here.

[FarCenter]

4. You can't organize something on the internet and expect the Feds not to know about it

Actually you can, but that requires a lot of crypto, IT security, and restricting communications to people you trust in a cellularly organized conspiracy. Which all sort of defeats the use of the internet for starting a mass movement.