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Showing Original Post only (View all)FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring (Updated the OP) [View all]
Last edited Wed Dec 26, 2012, 05:09 PM - Edit history (2)
http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html(Cross-posted from Occupy Underground.)
FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJFs Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did not condone the use of violence at occupy protests.
The PCJF has obtained heavily redacted documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country were in high gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early as August 2011, a month prior to the establishment of the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and other Occupy actions around the country.
This production, which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBIs surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement, stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF). These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America.
The documents are heavily redacted, and it is clear from the production that the FBI is withholding far more material. We are filing an appeal challenging this response and demanding full disclosure to the public of the records of this operation, stated Heather Benno, staff attorney with the PCJF.
(More at the link. Via Under Seal ?@JLLLOW and Anonymous.)
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Jason Leopold ?@JasonLeopold
Here are sum long-awaited FBI docs on #OWS released under #FOIA. Abt 100 pgs. I still hve pending FOIA lawsuit for all http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/549518-fbi-ows-documents.html
Retweeted by Courtney Harrop
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Dicey ?@DiceyTroop
Hey @nytimes, did you miss page 61 of the FBI's #OWS FOIA d0x? The part where they talk about assassinating leaders?
http://ow.ly/glwD4
Retweeted by Courtney Harrop
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FBI Monitored Occupy Wall Street from Earliest Days
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/26/headlines#12269
Newly revealed documents show the FBI monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from its inception last year. Internal government records show Occupy was treated as a potential terrorism threat when organizing first began in August of 2011. Counterterrorism agents were used to track Occupy activities despite the internal acknowledgment that the movement opposed violent tactics. The monitoring expanded across the country as Occupy grew into a national movement, with FBI agents sharing information with businesses, local police agencies and universities. One FBI memo warned that Occupy could prove to be an "outlet" through which activists could exploit "general government dissatisfaction." Although the documents provide no clear evidence of government infiltration, they do suggest the FBI used information from local law enforcement agencies gathered by someone observing Occupy activists on the ground. In a statement, the group that obtained the documents, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, said they show that federal law enforcement agencies are "treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity."
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FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring (Updated the OP) [View all]
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
OP
The FBI is more worried about Occupy than crazy gun owners or the Tea Party because
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#19
Yep, the teabaggers are the real Americans, against everything the founders wanted the
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#10
FBI: First Amendment Activists = terrorists, anarchists; Second Amend = All American Patriots, AOK.
leveymg
Dec 2012
#78
Not a problem... There's been metric F*&K-tons of anti-Occupy propaganda about Occupy
a geek named Bob
Dec 2012
#90
Nope, we were assured right here on DU that this definitely was not happening
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#3
Gotsta be. Even though DHS and FBI were obviously watching Adbusters mag (Canada) that early.
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#6
Much the same cast of characters is still telling us not to believe our lying eyes
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#16
They're probably out there right now saying "let's teach them a lesson."
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#26
Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, NDAA, HR347 are all neocon power grabs post 9/11.
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#29
Do all those listed bend over to protect the First, Fourth et al amendments post-9-11 with the
indepat
Dec 2012
#38
"Are you now or have you ever supplied food and clothing to a disaster victim?" n/t
IDemo
Dec 2012
#30
A Report Like This Is The Reason I Sometimes Take Exception To The Obama Administration
cantbeserious
Dec 2012
#31
Although it's relatively quiet, there is a "shop mom and pop" Christmas movement
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#73
Perhaps the surest sign that we are not fascist is that Bush relinquished power
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#74
Actually, I think we agree fully. Those calling Obama a 'fascist' don't have the
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#104
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#106
Well, I think any terrorist interested in raising a little hell would find that organization a
MADem
Dec 2012
#61
You might recall how vigorously we were told this was _not_ happening at the time
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#63
Your tax dollars at work. Still think a general strike is a bad idea? - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#76
I thought that COINTELPRO was shut down earlier by laws... Sounds like its been reborn...
cascadiance
Dec 2012
#83
Did I hear right they were planning to kill key Occupy people with snipers? n/t
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#86
There is something like that in there or floating around. I can't process it so I haven't searched.
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#100
This tweet suggests looking at page 61. I don't want to even know; it's too awful:
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#105