Wikileaks: Obama Administration kept close tabs on Occupy Wall Street protests.

[girl gone mad]

15. Pretending that its okay for DHS to spy on peaceful protestors..

because the movement was being "co-opted" makes absolutely no sense.

Spy on Black Bloc if that's the really the issue. But we all know that's not what happened. OWSers took pictures of anarchists and other provocateurs who showed up at protests and demanded that police arrest them. The provocateurs were completely ignored by the cops while peaceful OWSers were violently attacked.

You can apologize for police state thuggery if that is your wish. But you can't proclaim there was a need for this thuggery due to co-option and infiltration, when at best your "infiltrators" were a small band of outsiders who always remained at the fringes of the movement. Using your own logic, all that's necessary to sic the bloated government spy apparatus on any group or organization is paying a few guys in black to blend in and throw rocks.