[A-List] Fwd: New DHS Documents Show Massive Nationwide Monitoring of Occupy
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Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:24 AM
Subject: New DHS Documents Show Massive Nationwide Monitoring of Occupy
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Homeland Security Documents Show Massive Nationwide Monitoring of Occupy
Movement
Documents just obtained by the PCJF from its FOIA
request<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=CiVI8me03-lMrYQyXeNUsQ>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:
- NOC Fusion Desk on November 5, 2011, collected the identity and
contact information of a group of Dallas Occupy
protesters<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=A3Tu5CZIcYSk-AYWtYslzQ>who
were arrested demonstrating against the Bank of America.
- A DHS "Significant Incident
Report"<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=TixJZ9exN34HESm4bIVVFg>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.
- DHS coordinated with Portland,
OR<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=S6dIbSsS3-XuqzSCERwA2g>regarding
the eviction of the Occupy encampment and discussed obtaining
"'soundly based' evidence of public health and safety concerns" to evict
from Schrunk Plaza.
- 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<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=RhQS53Pc-6jFWrQ30qd4Rw>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<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=OrprrKAApnm0JNC5YtRWUw>,
LEO is FBI's nationally integrated law enforcement, intelligence and
military network.
- The NOC went into high gear requesting urgent communications for
Obama's DHS Secretary<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=BTJwKLWWLL01CL0YlqFrBQ>in
advance of the planned December 12th port protests nationwide by OWS.
The communications from a senior officer of the NOC ask field offices from
Houston, Portland, Oakland, Seattle, San Diego, and Los Angeles to provide
information about "what actions they will be taking to prepare" for the
protests by the "Occupy Movement."
- DHS went so far as to keep the Pentagon's Northcom (Northern Command)
in the intelligence
loop<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=TpJq8OsSgrnM788jlMJ0ZA>in
advance of the November 2nd port protests organized by Occupy Oakland
and supported by ILWU workers. In a "Significant Incident
Report"<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=LTEFg3VXeCRJgfVlWcP5ZQ>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<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=-RKqkVJa3RkFC-Dq4Jk5vA>to
Washington,
D.C. <http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=aqsLxUQarHgCdZkecavVeQ>to El
Paso <http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=ILfGHTQmcsrtR4UcXKh5Hg>to
Detroit <http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=37Cg_v3hjMfa0WtGGRUCjA>,
among many other cities around the country.
- The DHS was in direct communication with the White
House<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=l_g7rVFJcl8tDmowxa33oQ>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<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=q5jjTu0iOyJRiBsmOifgJw>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.
To read more about PCJF's OWS FOIA initiative and to read additional
documents click
here<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=XLsa8gAV2EryEuyNxO8-Tg>
.
To get email updates from the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, click
here. <http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=-0PPJG11hXHlNTzxHGp1eg>*
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*The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) is a not-for-profit
constitutional rights legal and educational organization which, among other
things, seeks to ensure constitutional accountability within police
practices and government transparency in operations. The PCJF filed the
class action suit challenging the NYPD's October 1 mass arrest of more than
700 protestors on the Brooklyn Bridge. It has brought class action cases in
which more than 1,000 persons were falsely arrested during protests in
Washington, D.C., resulting in settlements totaling $22 million and major
changes in police practices. The PCJF previously brought the successful
litigation in New York challenging the 2004 ban on protests in the Great
Lawn of Central Park. It is counsel with the National Lawyers Guild in
Oakland, CA challenging police mass arrest tactics. It won a unanimous
ruling at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals finding the MPD’s unprecedented
military-style police checkpoint program unconstitutional. The PCJF
previously uncovered and disclosed that the D.C. police employed an
unlawful domestic spying and agent provocateur program in which officers
were sent on long-term assignments posing as political activists and
infiltrated lawful and peaceful groups. For more information go to:
www.JusticeOnline.org<http://www2.answercoalition.org/site/R?i=Df9TmEyLfuak4XCbOz92rQ>
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