Reply #37: DHS was not involved in any conference calls.

[AtomicKitten]

There is NO EVIDENCE of this. Naomi's accusation was based on one piece in the Examiner making the un-sourced accusation that the DHS was coordinating attacks on the OWS.

PERF, a private company, coordinated two phone conferences with mayors and local law enforcement comparing notes on OWS. Mayors and law enforcement have regular conference calls anyway, so this does't mean anything. A Republican lobbying firm, another private company, marketed a plan that cost some $800K+ to do background checks on OWS activists.

Clearly these private companies are trying to make a buck dealing with OWS, but that has nothing to do with DHS and there is absolutely no evidence that it did.

Those intent on tracing this back to the WH are doing so based on one badly-sourced, hell, non-sourced article in the Examiner. Wonkette repeated the accusation based on the Examiner's piece and the rest is history. This is a spurious hit on the WH for no other reason than to set them up as being the enemy. They have already put the WH into an untenable position of opening their mouth and being accused of trying to co-opt the movement for political gain or saying nothing which earns them the accusation of abandoning the movement.