Court rules FBI must explain why it withheld records about alleged assassination in Houston

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/03/17/66220.htm

(CN) - The FBI must explain why it withheld records from a graduate student about an alleged assassination plot against the leaders of Occupy Houston, a federal judge ruled.
Ryan Noah Shapiro is a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research includes "the policing of dissent, especially in the name of national security" and "exploring FBI and other intelligence agency efforts to subvert the Freedom of Information Act," according to his profile on MIT's website.
Shapiro sent three FOIA requests to the FBI in early 2013, asking for records about Occupy Houston.
Specifically Shapiro asked for FBI records about "a potential plan to gather intelligence against the leaders of [Occupy Wall Street-related protests in Houston, Texas] and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership [of the protests] via suppressed sniper rifles."

[Dustlawyer]

1. Wait til the next big protest! They have something big cooked up I am sure!

They got surprised by OWS, and I am sure they vowed not to be surprised again.

[zeemike]

2. National security

That is the only reason they need.

[lark]

3. Pretext - not reason

The reason is to stop any threat to the 1%, the pretext varies over time.

[indepat]

4. Big brother doesn't take kindly to dissent of any kind and will do absolutely what is necessary to

crush any vestige of anti-war/wall street dissent.

[Excelsyor]

5. kick nt

[woo me with science]

6. K&R

[Octafish]

7. FBI Knew of Plot to Execute Occupy Activists but Did Nothing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023119333