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Attorney: FBI was aware of plan for snipers on Occupy Houston
As the Occupy Houston movement gained steam in 2011, the FBI was aware of a plan to use snipers to take out leaders of the movement, according to FBI documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The highly redacted documents do not point to any FBI involvement in the plan. Agency spokeswoman Shauna Dunlap said that it’s premature to draw conclusions about the documents because the publicly released information is incomplete.
The documents do raise questions about how much the FBI knew about the plot, said Houston attorney Paul Kennedy, who represented several of the Occupy protesters in misdemeanor cases.
In an email Wednesday, Dunlap said the agency investigates hundreds of such threats, and “rest assured if the FBI was aware of credible and specific information involving a murder plot, law enforcement would have responded with appropriate action.”
Dunlap stated the documents “were redacted in several places pursuant to privacy laws that govern the release of such information.” She cautioned against “drawing conclusions from FOIA documents, as they often contain raw data and are incomplete.”
Kennedy obtained a copy of the FBI document, which was requested in December 2012 by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and has posted it on his blog.
“The documents clearly state that the FBI had knowledge of a plot, and they’ve redacted out the names of any people and organizations,” Kennedy said.
“My gut tells me that somebody had put together a plan to kill the leaders of a leaderless group,” he said. “Whether that person was affiliated with the government, I don’t know. I find it hard to believe, though I know some things the government has done in the past.”
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/…698431.php
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-attorney-fbi-was-aware-of-plan-for-snipers-on-occupy-houston
