It’s almost like leftists have a penchant for violence.
Via Daily Caller:
The Department of Homeland Security monitored Occupy Wall Street movement-related protests daily as a matter of policy, according to recently published government documents.
Documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request also reveaeld “coordination and intelligence monitoring by the DHS, the FBI, the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies of ’Occupy-type’ protests.”
“In preparation for planned protests in New York City on October 15, 2011, the DHS documents show coordination between federal and local authorities to use New York City’s permitting scheme to frustrate, obstruct or stop free speech activities,” said PCJF in a post on its website.
DHS also monitored media coverage of the movement as part of its open-source intelligence collection efforts.
PCJF reported that it obtained thousands of documents pertaining to DHS surveillance of the Occupy movement. As of right now, PJCF has published 252 of those documents.
PCJF also published a separate set of documents in December 2012, obtained from the FBI, which revealed that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and FBI closely monitored the activities of the movement in 2011.