Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use. « Fred Klonsky #OWS

Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use. « Fred Klonsky:

Did the Obama administration assist in coordinating an attack on Occupy Wall Street? Putting FOIA to good use.

by Fred Klonsky

Instead of some right-wing anti-union cult like Kyle Olson’s Education Actin Group using the Freedom of Information Act to go through an elementary teacher’s emails and personnel file (that would be me), David Lane, a well-known civil rights attorney in Denver will put the FOIA to a very different purpose.

Lane wants to know what did the Obama administration know and when did they know about the coordinated attacks on Occupation camp sites in half a dozen cities?

How would the answer to that question impact Obama’s ability to appeal to the progressive wing of the