So Now the Claims of FBI Monitoring of TEA Rallies Start

[Waitone]

From the Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press
(the ying and yang of credibility)

Draw your own conclusions.

http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2659

FBI spied on TEA Party Americans

Exclusive to the Northeast intelligence Network & Canada Free Press

Douglas J. Hagmann, Director & Judi McLeod, Founding Editor, Canada Free Press

19 April 2009: Even as average Americans were planning to get out in towns and cities to demonstrate against Big Government and Big Taxes, Federal Bureau of Intelligence Investigation (FBI) surveillance was being unleashed upon them.  In fact, unsuspecting Tax Day TEA Party participants were being closely watched during the demonstration planning stages in a covert operation that began on or about March 23, 2009.

If you one of the estimated 750,000 Americans who attended one of about 600 TEA parties last week, you might have seen media cameras covering the event. Media cameras, however, were not the only cameras taking video at these events, something  that  has at least one current FBI agent concerned over the future of America. According to this agent - the same agent who provided the Northeast Intelligence Network (NEIN) exclusively the unreleased photographs of the 11 missing Egyptian students who were the subject of a FBI BOLO in August 2006–placed his concerns for true patriots of the U.S. over his own career when he confided that covert surveillance was “planned and performed” at each of the TEA parties that took place last Tuesday.

“Listen to what I am saying,” stated the source during an interview with Doug Hagmann,  founder (NEIN).  “The Department of Homeland Security Intelligence Assessment that is receiving so much attention is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and the true patriotic citizens of this country are on the Titanic. This is what bothers me. But is goes far beyond that assessment. There have been very significant changes made over the last few years that redirect the focus and assets of the intelligence community internally. These changes have greatly accelerated under this administration, and the threats have been redefined to include those who used to be patriots. It’s not only chilling but absolutely insulting to God-fearing Americans.”

According to this unimpeachable source, a single-page confidential directive issued by the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC (FBIHQ) was sent to each of the 56 field offices located across the United States on or about March 23, 2009, instructing the Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of those offices to verify the date, time and location of each TEA Party within their region and supply that information to FBI headquarters in Washington. The source stated this correspondence termed the TEA parties “political demonstrations,” and added that the dissemination of the directive was very tightly controlled. “Not all agents were privy to this correspondence,” stated the source, who compared the dissemination to an older “Do Not File” classification.

In addition to obtaining or confirming the location and time of each “demonstration,” each field office was instructed to obtain or confirm the identity of the individual(s) involved in the actual planning and coordination of the event in each specific region, and include the local or regional Internet web site address, if any.  The information collected by region was then reportedly sent to FBI Headquarters.

The source alleges that a second directive was issued on or about  April 6,  2009 that reportedly instructed each SAC to coordinate and conduct, either at the field office level and/or with the appropriate resident agency, covert video surveillance and data collection of the participants of the TEA parties.  Surveillance was to be performed from “discreet fixed or mobile positions” and was to be performed “independently and outside of the purview of local law enforcement.”

Although the level of detail collected from each operation is unclear, the information was reportedly submitted to Washington, where, “at the level of the National Security Branch (NSB), this information was to “include the office of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), and integrated with a restricted access database, one that reportedly is accessible to only two agencies” [of the 14 agencies that comprise the U.S. intelligence community, according to the source.

“The implications to the citizens of the U.S. are ominous. It seems that there is a hostile political agenda coming from Washington that characterizes the supporters of our constitutional freedoms as threats to our domestic security, which is totally absurd. The redirection, the refocusing of domestic threats from al Qaeda cells to ‘flag waving right-wingers’ is something that has gone from a murmur a few years ago to a roar today.”

Training government-issued cameras on ordinary citizens,  many of whom brought their children to an estimated 600 Tax Day TEA Parties is a page torn out of George Orwell’s 1984  and makes the term “God Bless America” more meaningful than ever.

The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.

[Perd Hapley]

The Northeast Intelligence Network and Canada Free Press expect the government’s denial of the surveillance of the TEA Parties to go viral as soon as this story is posted.

"How we can make sure our article will be immediately branded as tinfoil hattery?"

"Simple.  We poison the well; say they'll deny it.  It makes it more truthy-ful." 


Somebody asked me about the feds doing this sort of thing.  Maybe I'm being naive, but I just have a hard time imagining that anyone would really believe they could get any good intel by seeing who shows up at a Tea Party.  Check out the leadership, sure.  But that could be done online, or by calling city hall to see who filed for the permits, etc.  Right? 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

or tape the newsfeed coverage

[MicroBalrog]

Well. Remember the Canadian government did something like this in the past.

[Perd Hapley]

or tape the newsfeed coverage

Or pulling an Image search for "Tea Party."  That would give them everybody's facebook, myspace, twitter, photobucket, blog, etc. 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

no drama and conspiracy to that though

[buzz_knox]

Somebody asked me about the feds doing this sort of thing.  Maybe I'm being naive, but I just have a hard time imagining that anyone would really believe they could get any good intel by seeing who shows up at a Tea Party.  Check out the leadership, sure.  But that could be done online, or by calling city hall to see who filed for the permits, etc.  Right? 

They want to see if someone on their "it would really be good to know more about this person" list would be there.  Those kinds of people (members of actual or perceived subversive organizations, etc) typically don't partcipate in the leadership of peaceful protests, but they might come to anything seen as anti-government.  If someone pops up on the radar later, it's useful to have video footage of these events to see if they have a trail.

There's nothing new about this kind of activity, and it's legal as long as done in public venues.

[roo_ster]

I assumed the FBI or other gov't agencies would most certainly observe some tea parties as well as particular people. 

The OP is like a breathless, "Sun rises in east, experts say," headline.