This from Michael Hasting over at Rolling Stone
Exclusive: Homeland Security Kept Tabs on Occupy Wall Street
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
While it looks benign enough, it still feels a little bit scary...
the money quote for me
The report includes a special feature on what it calls Occupy's "social media and IT usage," and provides an interactive map of protests and gatherings nationwide – borrowed, improbably enough, from the lefty blog Daily Kos. "Social media and the organic emergence of online communities," the report notes, "have driven the rapid expansion of the OWS movement."
Here's the link to the actual DHS report
http://www1.rollingstone.com/...
And here's the link to Chris Bower's post that is referenced.
http://www.dailykos.com/...