FSRN Authorities Disrupt Information Request About Occupy Movement Policing
Channel: Reddebrek
Date: 2011-11-24

After a series of police crackdowns on occupy movement sites across the US - civil rights groups, attorneys and journalists are seeking information on what they call a possible coordinated federal government response. This week, the national lawyers guild and the partnership for civil justice fund filed a freedom of information act - or FOIA - request for federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA.

But the efforts bring up the difficulty of obtaining records under FOIA, which was designed to make government more transparent to the public.

For more we go to journalist Jason Leopold. He's an Investigative Reporter and Deputy Managing Editor with Truthout.org - and has been pursuing information on the FBI and the occupy movement by using FOIA requests - he's gotten some responses.
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