FBI started surveillance of Occupy before it occupied

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83. You forced me to look it up myself, darn you! ;-)

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Looks like most of the investigations stopped c. 2007, and the configuration at that time was that the JTTF and Fusion Centers were linked with the now operational FIRES program at NGIC. Fires computerized all available building plans into a common database, and was originally something dreamed up at TIA as a piece of the larger program.

Wade/Wilkes MZM was linked into this giant DIA program, and they got nabbed by the FBI as part of the probe of bribery of a bunch of Congressmen, including Cunningham, after that rats nest got dug up under the false WMD intel that was uncovered following the outing of Plame and the CIA-CPD.

Here's part of it: http://www.nationalcorruptionindex.org/pages/profile.php?profile_id=26

Shortly after the bribing began, MZM received a $225 million blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Defense. The agreement was not a contract, but rather it was more like a promise: MZM could draw down on that line of credit if it could find contracts within the department to work on. With Cunningham’s help, Wade and his company found plenty.

MZM received the agreement shortly after Wade hired the son of William Rich Jr., who was then director of the National Ground Intelligence Center, which analyzes intelligence for the Army. Under Rich’s leadership, the NGIC contributed to the false intelligence report that alleged Saddam Hussein possessed aluminum tubes that could be used to build nuclear weapons. (It was later revealed that the tubes are used in rockets.)

In late 2002, Cunningham earmarked money at NGIC for classified projects that went to MZM, including one on a computer program called FIRES. (FIRES is an intelligence database of international building blueprints.) After a few months on the project, MZM’s work came up for review. To ensure a favorable rating, Wade again made a strategic hiring decision, this time giving a job to the son of Robert Fromm, the FIRES manager. (Wade billed the salary for Fromm’s son back to the NGIC.)

Hiring the relatives of people in a position to help him was a Wade specialty – prosecutors say he did at for at least 15 government employees. They include Joe James, an executive at the now-closed MZM-owned Foreign Supplier Assessment Center, whose wife May James is an assistant to the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Cambone.

Wade also tried to penetrate the paid staff of the House Intelligence Committee, possibly by offering bribes. But according to an internal investigation, he failed. The summary of the investigation report, which is the only part of it released publicly, doesn’t name Wade’s specific tactics. But in the end, it didn’t matter. The investigation found that Cunningham bullied the committee’s staff so relentlessly that they gave in to his demands for money for MZM projects even though they thought the projects “a waste” and were openly suspicious of Wade himself. (Had they resisted Cunningham, the report hints, he would have used his seat on the Appropriations Committee to block funding for Intelligence Committee projects.)

And, a journal of mine that touches on much of this intrigue in spooksville: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1529067