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New Documents Expose Government Monitoring of Protests Against Family Separation
- mzs 8y agoDHS Monitored more than 600 protests in June of last year, "The information was compiled by a private cybersecurity company contracted by DHS called LookingGlass, and shared with intelligence “fusion centers” across the country that employ homeland security officials…" FOIA docs: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5980360/LookingGlass.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5980360/LookingGl... reporting from last week: http://bostonreview.net/global-justice/lauren-carasik-government-targeting-immigration-lawyers-activists-journalists http://bostonreview.net/global-justice/lauren-carasik-govern...
- bediger4000 8y agoI'm kind of surprised. Usually, only protests against (a) Police brutality, (b) War and (c) surveillance get monitored, as those 3 things are the very basis of autocratic government. Maybe because the protests against family separation were organized openly they got spied on. I mean, spies are lazy, too, so why bother to snoop on people who organize privately.