During the FBI's efforts to protect corporate criminals they inadvertantly uncovered a sniper plot. But instead of pursuing this lead about conspiracy to commit murder they ignored it in lieu of pursuing Occupiers, referring to them as terrorists and claiming they have an interest in overthrowing the government. The FBI is unable to support those claims according to the judge.
The judge has given the FBI until April 9 to be forthcoming with documents regarding the conspiracy to commit murder plot they chose to ignore.
This is after the FBI pulled their redacted nonesense. Claiming that Occupy was being investigated for the boogy man terrorism. The unsupported claim of investigation was not sufficient for this judge.
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In a ruling last week, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the FBI to explain with more detail why it claims that certain information requested by the student, Ryan Noah Shapiro, is exempted under FOIA.
The law governing the public’s access to records allows the FBI to shield “information compiled for law enforcement purposes” if disclosure would interfere with an investigation, endanger life or cause other types of harm.
That exemption was repeatedly cited by FBI FOIA chief David Hardy in a filing to the court in support of an FBI motion to dismiss Mr. Shapiro’s lawsuit. Some information was redacted, according to Mr. Hardy’s filing, because it involved information shared with local law enforcement agencies related to an investigation of “potential criminal activity by protestors involved with the ‘Occupy’ movement in Houston.” He stated that the potential crimes included “domestic terrorism” and “advocating overthrow of government.”
Judge Collyer said that justification wasn’t sufficient.
“At no point does Mr. Hardy supply specific facts as to the basis for FBI’s belief that the Occupy protestors might have been engaged in terroristic or other criminal activity,” she wrote. “Neither the word ‘terrorism’ nor the phrase ‘advocating the overthrow of the government’ are talismanic, especially where FBI purports to be investigating individuals who ostensibly are engaged in protected First Amendment activity.”