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I for one am glad the PCJF is on this:
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A sampling of documents reveals:
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A DHS "Significant Incident Report" reflected step-by-step reporting on a ceremonial meeting on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York by a small group of OWS members from the U.S. and Canada. According to the monitoring report, the people at the meeting included Occupy Toronto, Occupy Niagara, Occupy Buffalo and Occupy Philadelphia. Multiple law enforcement agencies met in advance on December 29 and "stood ready to assist" during the January 1, 2012 meeting.
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On November 9, 2011 -- two days after a dramatic street protest by 1,500 seniors and Occupy Chicago against social service cuts -- the NOC Fusion desk sent out a request from the Chicago police department seeking information from "state Fusion Centers" and requesting coordination and information-sharing about Occupy encampments and arrest charges in New York, Oakland, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. Denver, Boston, Portland OR, and Seattle. This request was subsequently recalled by officials in DHS, who directed that it should instead proceed through "law enforcement channels." Boston Police Intelligence/Homeland Security reported that they were following up in direct communication with Chicago. In an apparent effort to facilitate the coordination but to take it off the books of the DHS, the Duty Director of the NOC wrote that he would reach out to "LEO LNOs (liason officer) on the floor" to assist. As we described in a previous report, LEO is FBI's nationally integrated law enforcement, intelligence and military network.
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DHS went so far as to keep the Pentagon's Northcom (Northern Command) in the intelligence loop in advance of the November 2nd port protests organized by Occupy Oakland and supported by ILWU workers. In a "Significant Incident Report" DHS officials were "advised that this [port] closure is a combination of Longshoremen dissatisfaction of working conditions...and to show support for the Occupy Oakland Protest."
DHS monitored and reported on Occupy protests from Atlanta to Washington, D.C. to El Paso to Detroit, among many other cities around the country.
The DHS was in direct communication with the White House for approval of public statements denying DHS's involvement in Occupy actions.
DHS's Office for State and Local Law Enforcement, which collaborates with "non-federal law enforcement and private associations" issued its "Weekly Informant" for December 5th including an update from the Police Executive Research Forum about Occupy. The PERF is the group that organized a series of multi-city law enforcement calls to coordinate the response to Occupy.
More and PDFs of the newly obtained redacted documents at the link.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)starts their financial house of cards on fire.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)BadgerKid
(4,553 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)They haven't changed tactics since the Minn convention some houses were raided pre Mayday protests.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Last edited Fri May 4, 2012, 05:47 PM - Edit history (1)
Nothing has changed.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)But this activity without probable cause is worrisome and probably illegal.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)dollars to spy on me.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)They will do whatever it takes to squash Occupy.
LASlibinSC
(269 posts)Curiouser and curiouser...
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)may their machines clog up with useless data. I hope that someday these monitors see the futility of their existence and get a life.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)to political events, including those where the President was speaking, and yet they were pretty much left alone. OWS on the other hand has this administration, and the government, scared for some reason....what gives?
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)if it weren't, they wouldn't pay this much attention to it... power elite are afraid of losing grip on Americans as a whole.