Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Activists To Break Up Planned Protest

[limpyhobbler]

TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security
Keep Close Eye on Oklahoma Activists, FOIA Documents Reveal

After a week of careful planning, environmentalists attending a tar sands resistance action camp in Oklahoma thought they had the element of surprise — but they would soon learn that their moves were being closely watched by law enforcement officials and TransCanada, the very company they were targeting.

On the morning of March 22 activists had planned to block the gates at the company’s strategic oil reserves in Cushing, Oklahoma as part of the larger protest movement against TransCanada’s tar sands pipeline. But when they showed up in the early morning hours and began unloading equipment from their vehicles they were confronted by police officers. Stefan Warner, an organizer with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, says some of the vehicles en route to the protest site were pulled over even before they had reached Cushing. He estimates that roughly 50 people would have participated— either risking arrest or providing support. The act of nonviolent civil disobedience, weeks in the planning, was called off.
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The infiltration of the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance action camp and pre-emption of the Cushing protest is part of a larger pattern of government surveillance of tar sands protesters. According to other documents obtained by Earth Island Journal under an Open Records Act request, Department of Homeland Security staff has been keeping close tabs on pipeline opponents — and routinely sharing that information with TransCanada, and vice versa.

In March TransCanada gave a briefing on corporate security to a Criminal Intelligence Analyst with the Oklahoma Information Fusion Center, the state level branch of Homeland Security. The conversation took place just as the action camp was getting underway. The following day, Diane Hogue, the Center’s Intelligence Analyst, asked TransCanada to review and comment on the agency’s classified situational awareness bulletin. Michael Nagina, Corporate Security Advisor for TransCanada, made two small suggestions and wrote, “With the above changes I am comfortable with the content.”

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http://www.popularresistance.org/undercover-agents-infiltrated-tar-sands-to-break-up-planned-protest/

[gtar100]

1. Because they can't do it based on the integrity of their position.

Which is to say, it has no integrity. Their only argument for it is greed.

What's incredibly sad is there happens to be a large supply of motherfuckers willing to lie themselves into these protest groups. The real issue at hand - the threat to our water, to the land - is so foreign to their minds that they can't see past the dollars.

It's their lives which they enshrine in eternity. They obviously don't care about that because they think it all disappears when they die. Well ask any tracker about that principle. That is my way of wishing that they reap what they sow.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

[Enthusiast]

3. This is what the nation has come to.

This isn't alarming? It's alright that the government would interfere with a peaceful protest that is in accordance with constitutional values?

[chimpymustgo]

4. And who exactly does "Homeland Security" work for?? We do not have a constitutional govt anymore.

nt

[Enthusiast]

6. Yeah! nt

[Wilms]

5. ^