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The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal "Counterterrorism" Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest DaysQuicklink submitted by Amanda Lang Permalink |
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Once-secret documents reveal the FBI monitored Occupy Wall Street from its earliest days and treated the nonviolent movement as a potential terrorist threat. Internal government records show Occupy was treated as a potential 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. We're joined by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which obtained the FBI documents through the Freedom of Information Act. 'We can see, decade after decade, with each social justice movement, that the FBI conducts itself in the same role over and over again... |
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FBI is tool of foreign powers?
by Steven G. Erickson on Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:32:11 PM
FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
by Deborah Dills on Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:55:53 PM
ddills, Thanks much for Kevin Zeese's document
by Alan MacDonald on Friday, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:36:10 AM