Remember that time Occupy was examined by The Government & No One Gave A Shit?

[geek tragedy]

57. In case you want proof, read this:

n October 2011, the documents show, the Los Angeles Fusion Center (one of dozens of surveillance centers that coordinate state, local, and federal intelligence) sent a query to DHS's intelligence division seeking information on "any DHS products identifying and/or describing criminal activities and/or potential civil disobedience associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests nationwide" and the number of "arrests...made, type and number of weapons confiscated, communication used to plan these crimes, etc." The intended recipient of the intelligence, the request said, was "a federal partner of the Fusion Center at LA."

The intelligence division flatly denied the request: "

The information being requested does not fall within the scope of I&A's authorities. Arrests being made at these protests are a criminal matter and the protesters are engaged in constitutionally protected activity.... DHS should not report on activities where the basis for reporting is political speech

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http://gawker.com/5895202/internal-documents-show-the-department-of-homeland-security-tried-pretty-hard-not-to-monitor-occupy-wall-street

I'm going to bet you've never read that article or those emails.

Why?

Epistemic closure.