Forum Post: FOIA Revelations Show Administration Role In Occupy Crackdown
Posted 11 years ago on June 7, 2012, 5:17 p.m. EST by BetsyRoss2
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DHS documents were released to Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) that despite extensive redactions reveal a greater administration role than previously known in the crackdown on the Occupy movement.
The release is described on the PCJF website:
Homeland Security Documents Show Massive Nationwide Monitoring of Occupy Movement
Documents just obtained by the PCJF from its FOIA request show massive nationwide monitoring, surveillance and information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and local authorities in response to Occupy. The PCJF, also on behalf of author/filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee, has made a series of FOIA demands regarding law enforcement involvement in the Occupy Crackdown. ...
This set of released materials reveals intense involvement by the DHS' National Operations Center (NOC) in these activities. The DHS describes the NOC as, "the primary national-level hub for domestic situational awareness, common operational picture, information fusion, information sharing, communications, and coordination pertaining to the prevention of terrorist attacks and domestic incident management. The NOC is the primary conduit for the White House Situation Room and DHS Leadership for domestic situational awareness and facilitates information sharing and operational coordination with other federal, state, local, tribal, non-governmental operation centers and the private sector."
and there's much, much more on these sites:
http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/dhs-releases-more-documents.html
This is scary stuff. You know all of those conspiracy theories about DHS and a national effort to stop this movement? Well call this theory "Confirmed" because the evidence (and lots of it) are in the returns from that FOIA request.
BTW if ANY politician tries to repeal FOIA, we need to strike that person down ASAP. That act is the only reason that we are aware of even half of what our government is doing behind closed doors. You want to balance the budget? How about cutting some of these backdoor programs before cutting aid to the poor!
On a related note: Why are we letting the government get away with calling protest movements "terrorist"? Its pure propaganda at best, and libel if we can get a lawyer to work on this.
Ugh... mods fix the quote CSS!
Homeland Security Documents Show Massive Nationwide Monitoring of Occupy Movement
Documents just obtained by the PCJF from its FOIA request show massive nationwide monitoring, surveillance and information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and local authorities in response to Occupy. The PCJF, also on behalf of author/filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee, has made a series of FOIA demands regarding law enforcement involvement in the Occupy Crackdown. ...
This set of released materials reveals intense involvement by the DHS' National Operations Center (NOC) in these activities. The DHS describes the NOC as, "the primary national-level hub for domestic situational awareness, common operational picture, information fusion, information sharing, communications, and coordination pertaining to the prevention of terrorist attacks and domestic incident management. The NOC is the primary conduit for the White House Situation Room and DHS Leadership for domestic situational awareness and facilitates information sharing and operational coordination with other federal, state, local, tribal, non-governmental operation centers and the private sector."
I feel a little safer from corporate criminals and rogue destruction
but my browser is still unable to go to search addresses
Are you independently wealthy, Matthew?
Are you really a Captain, Captain?
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