The FBI Will Apply The Term “Terrorism”
To Any Group It Dislikes
911: President George W. Bush Tours Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Headquarters, 09/25/2001. (Photo credit: The U.S. National Archives)
Washington’s Blog
Dec 27, 2012
Constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald writes:
Documents just obtained from the FBI by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund reveal, asthe New York Times put it, that “the [FBI] used counterterrorism agents to investigate the Occupy Wall Street movement, including its communications and planning” and in general show “how deeply involved federal law-enforcement authorities were in monitoring the activities of the movement.” The heavily redacted documents, which can be read here, reveal numerous instances of the FBI collaborating with local police forces and private corporations to monitor and anticipate the acts of the protest movement.
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