FBI Won't Release Occupy Surveillance Documents to ACLU, Citing National Security

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12. It's not about assuming the documents are untoward

It's that it's blatantly obvious the FBI is lying.

It's conceivable there are documents which say, "The ease with which the protesters were able to disrupt port operations point to serious security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by terrorists." But if there are, those could only be speculative afterthoughts -- a few pages at most -- and could not justify the refusal to reveal the much larger mass of documents which presumably concern routine surveillance and infiltration.

Or just possiby the FBI has decided that *all* protests are national security risks because TERRORISM! -- and doesn't want the public to know how badly the Constitution is being subverted.

So many possibilities, but none of them is innocent. And if you're going to assume an innocent motivation, you need to at least offer a plausible scenario.