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.
"These documents show not only
intense government monitoring and coordination in response to the
Occupy Movement, but reveal a glimpse into the interior of a vast,
tentacled, national intelligence and domestic spying network that the
U.S. government operates against its own people," stated Mara
Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the PCJF. "These heavily
redacted documents don't tell the full story. They are likely only a
subset of responsive materials and the PCJF continues to fight for a
complete release. They scratch the surface of a mass intelligence
network including Fusion Centers, saturated with 'anti-terrorism'
funding, that mobilizes thousands of local and federal officers and
agents to investigate and monitor the social justice movement,"
Verheyden-Hilliard stated.
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."
A sampling of documents reveals:
To read more about PCJF's OWS FOIA initiative and to read additional documents click here.
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NORTON META TAG
03 May 2012
Homeland Security Documents Show Massive Nationwide Monitoring of Occupy Movement 3MAI12
THE difference regarding human rights between the U.S. and the rest of the world is being eroded at an alarming rate. By continuing to violate our human rights and civil liberties the government seeks to wear down opposition to these tactics until the question will be "All we like sheep have gone astray" (Isaiah 53:6) and we will just accept government spying on us as the norm, for our own good and not offensive. WELL, I AM OFFENDED AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO! From The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund....
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