FBI Files Show Snipers Targeted Occupy Houston

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10. K&R'd!

To clarify for anyone who might otherwise be misled: the FBI was aware that someone was planning sniper attacks against Occupy leadership; this is pursuant to internal FBI documents obtained through the FOIA.

The FBI did NOT warn any of the sniper targets that they were in danger.

The FBI knew who was planning the attacks, but their identity was blacked out in the documents.

The text quoted in the OP is somewhat garbled because the excerpt contained certain info in brackets; here it is again, with the brackets replaced with whatever you call those fancy parentheses things:

An identified {DELETED} as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified {DELETED} had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. {DELETED} planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles. (Note: protests continued throughout the weekend with approximately 6000 persons in NYC. "Occupy Wall Street' protests have spread to about half of all states in the US, over a dozen European and Asian cities, including protests in Cleveland (10/6-8/11) at Willard Park which was initially attended by hundreds of protesters.)

Who could {DELETED} have been?

It was a person or agency not just politically opposed to Occupy but interested in receiving and gathering intelligence on the Occupiers and their plans. "Rifles" - plural - suggests there was a belief that more than one might be deployed, i.e. someone with colleagues or who could hire people.

The FBI knew who it was. How might the FBI have come to identify a person or agency planning to murder Occupiers -- had the FBI been worried about Occupiers' welfare and been busy doing preventive detective work just in case anyone might possibly wish to do them harm?

What became of DELETED -- were they arrested? Given the government's eagerness to display any plausible success in fighting "terrorists," you'd think we might have heard more about this.

Just sayin'.