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

[geek tragedy]

60. In individual instances, yes there was some monitoring

though it was discouraged by the national DHS since OWS was a nonviolent expression of 1st amendment rights.

In cases where there was talk of closing down ports, one would be surprised if they weren't paying attention.

Here's where common sense would come in:

1) Huge national conspiracy involving multiple federal agencies as well as dozens of local ones, with zero testimony or documents showing that conspiracy? Human experience tells us no conspiracy can be that big and remain a secret--someone will blab, someone will whistleblow, etc.

2) Obama had nothing to gain from violently suppressing OWS. Doing so would have risked destroying his presidency. So long as Obama is the milquetoast centrist he's generally perceived as, and not the comic book villain some on the extreme left and right view him as, it's utterly nonsensical to think he'd have done so.