The US Government Is Running A Massive Spy Campaign On Occupy Wall Street

[Puregonzo1188]

Not that this is really very surprising, but the US government is apparently up to all its same old dirty tricks.

n response to repeated Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by the Fund, made on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild, the DHS released a revealing set of documents in April. But the latest batch, made public on May 3rd, exposes the scale of the government’s “attention” to Occupy as never before.
The documents, many of which are partially blacked-out emails, demonstrate a surprising degree of coordination between the DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC) and local authorities in the monitoring of the Occupy movement. Cities implicated in this wide-scale snooping operation include New York, Oakland, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Denver, Boston, Portland, Detroit, El Paso, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego, and Los Angeles.
Interest in the Occupy protesters was not limited to DHS and local law enforcement authorities. The most recently released correspondence contains Occupy-related missives between the DHS and agencies at all levels of government, including the Mayor of Portland, regional NOC “fusion centers,” the General Services Administration (GSA), the Pentagon’s USNORTHCOM (Northern Command), and the White House. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the PCJF, contends that the variety and reach of the organizations involved point to the existence of a larger, more pervasive domestic surveillance network than previously suspected.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-is-running-a-massive-spying-campaign-on-the-occupy-movement-2012-5

[Zalatix]

1. Who here still thinks that law enforcement is on our side and not the Plutocracy's side?

[Dawson Leery]

2. Too many.

[AverageJoe90]

5. Many cops are, but......

Unfortunately, nobody can deny that there are a good number of cops who are supporters of the Establishment instead of the common folk.

[SomethingFishy]

8. Lots of people in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002719150

[Zalatix]

13. My comment was kinda aimed at them.

[bvar22]

3. Who here still believes that...

...the Suppression of OWS, and the depriving Americans of their Constitutional Liberties
is NOT being Authorized and Coordinated at the National Level?

[Efilroft Sul]

4. It's early in the thread. They'll all be here soon. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Yep...

"our" party leaders are complicit in this.

[reorg]

7. but, but ... I heard Naomi Wolf made it all up, didn't she? n/t

[IDemo]

9. The Pentagon? Really?

Pray tell, based upon which precept of domestic military law?

[hootinholler]

11. The DIA is heavily invested into spying

I don't know for sure what the contents are, but I do know in 2003 they had feeds from the intertubes on the order of terabytes per day and were developing systems to scan them into a taxonomy and make them full text searchable.

[IDemo]

12. The who?

By "DIA", I'm assuming you mean Domestic Intelligence Agency? I'm finding a number of older sources "mulling whether the US needs to create a domestic intelligence agency", nothing more. We've already got Homeland 'Security', the FBI, the NSA, the Justice Department, the Secret Service, the DEA and the INS, along with state and local police. Need we more?

[Crabby Appleton]

14. Defense Intelligence Agency nt

[hootinholler]

15. The Defense Intelligence Agency

Sorry, should have spelled it out to begin with. They are part of the DOD

[Comrade_McKenzie]

10. It's all good. We have the Anonymous, Assange, and Mannings of the world...

To spy on the US government.