PCJF exposes documents from FBI spy
files
FBI documents just obtained by the
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of
Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the
Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the
agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful
protest and did “not condone the use of violence” at occupy protests.
The PCJF has obtained heavily redacted
documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country were in high
gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early as August 2011,
a month prior to the establishment of the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and
other Occupy actions around the country.
“This production, which we believe is
just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI’s
surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with
the Occupy movement,” stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF).
“These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland
Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of
America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal
agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and
Corporate America.”
Source: Party for Socialism and
Liberation
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