Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide

The report, a distillation of thousands of pages of records obtained from counter terrorism/law enforcement agencies, details how state/regional "fusion center" personnel monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement over the course of 2011 and 2012. Personnel engaged in this activity at fusion centers include employees of municipal, county and federal counter terrorism/homeland security entities. Such entities include local police departments, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (including U.S. DHS components such as the Transportation Security Administration).

The report also examines how fusion centers and other counter terrorism entities that have emerged since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have worked to benefit numerous corporations engaged in public-private intelligence sharing partnerships.

While the report examines many instances of fusion center monitoring of Occupy Wall Street activists nationwide, the bulk of the report details how counter terrorism personnel engaged in the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC, commonly known as the "Arizona fusion center&quot monitored and otherwise surveilled citizens active in Occupy Phoenix, and how this surveillance benefited a number of corporations and banks that were subjects of Occupy Phoenix protest activity.

While small glimpses into the governmental monitoring of the Occupy Wall Street movement have emerged in the past, there has not been any reporting -- until now -- that details the breadth and depth of the degree to which the nation's post-September 11, 2001 counter terrorism apparatus has been applied to politically engaged citizens exercising their Constitutionally-protected First Amendment rights.

More (including a summary of findings) at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/05/12115/dissent-or-terror-new-report-details-how-counter-terrorism-apparatus-was-used-mon

The complete report at: http://dbapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Dissent-or-Terror-FINAL.pdf

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Well that won't be on the TV or in the newspapers....ever.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Crickets.

[leveymg]

3. This is the @1920 Palmer "Red Squads" updated with 21st Century terminology and $billions in tech-

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nology. Federal operations against OWS are no more valid today than the post-World War One "Red Scare" that targeted radical Leftists ("Wobblies&quot and Bolsheviks and other radical rabble rousers. The more things change . . .

[Blue Owl]

4. ...be veeewwwy quiet...

...Elmer Fudd is hunting tewwowists...

[Demeter]

5. DHS can't find terrorists with both hands and a clue from Russia

but they can sure mess with the Bill of Rights.

[leveymg]

6. That's because the CIA didn't share details about its foreign operatives in the US, again.

What, you think they're going to compromise our foreign operatives fighting the Russians just because they're fanatical Jihadis and terrorist threats? Of course they're terrorist threats, that's what makes them our best operatives. Again.

[indepat]

7. It's enough to make one wonder if big brother does not consider the protest of governmental policy

or rampant Wall Street fraud and abuse as protected under the 1st Amendment. Of course another explanation might be big brother is ready, willing, and able to do what it takes, unconstitutionally or not, to quash left-wing movements whereas domestic right-wing extremist groups seem to have pass to do whatever they do.

[warrprayer]

8. we the people

.... are the terrorists. I kinda figured that out when they put the "Patriot" act in place and let it stay there.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. This is by far the worst one yet. Please, please cross-post this to GD :(

[limpyhobbler]

10. What a waste. nt

[JEB]

11. Now THIS is a scandal.

Really needs to get a lot more attention.