Verheyden-Hilliard points out the close partnering of banks, the New York Stock Exchange and at least one local Federal Reserve with the FBI and DHS, and calls it police-statism: This production [of documents], which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBIs surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement … These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America. The documents show stunning range: in Denver, Colorado, that branch of the FBI and a Bank Fraud Working Group met in November 2011 – during the Occupy protests – to surveil the group. The Federal Reserve of Richmond, Virginia had its own private security surveilling Occupy Tampa and Tampa Veterans for Peace and passing privately-collected information on activists back to the Richmond FBI, which, in turn, categorized OWS activities under its domestic terrorism unit. The Anchorage, Alaska terrorism task force was watching Occupy Anchorage. The Jackson, Mississippi joint terrorism task force was issuing a counterterrorism preparedness alert about the ill-organized grandmas and college sophomores in Occupy there. Also in Jackson, Mississippi, the FBI and the Bank Security Group – multiple private banks – met to discuss the reaction to National Bad Bank Sit-in Day (the response was violent, as you may recall). The Virginia FBI sent that states Occupy members details to the Virginia terrorism fusion center. The Memphis FBI tracked OWS under its joint terrorism task force aegis, too. And so on, for over 100 pages. More:
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:36:01 +0000
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