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Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD
gawker.com ^ | 10/25/11 | Adrian Chen

Posted on 10/25/2011 6:08:36 PM PDT by Nachum

The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters' moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access to one of the group's internal mailing lists, and then handed over information on the group's plans to authorities and corporations targeted by protesters.

Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he's done contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags on his blog that he leads "a team called Black Cell, a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world." But over the past few weeks, he and his computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers' social media accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.

Full size As part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: occupy; snitched; street; wall

1 posted on 10/25/2011 6:08:39 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 10/25/2011 6:10:41 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Nachum

“who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets”

But they are an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.


3 posted on 10/25/2011 6:11:04 PM PDT by jdege
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To: musicman

God love the good guys.....


4 posted on 10/25/2011 6:12:02 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: Nachum

Kinda like trying to smear apples as a rounded,reddish-skinned fruit you make pies out of.


5 posted on 10/25/2011 6:16:14 PM PDT by gimme1ibertee ("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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To: Nachum

“Snitched”? Like the cops couldn’t sign up for a mailng list.


6 posted on 10/25/2011 6:17:53 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: jdege

“who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets”

But they are an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.

****

BINGO. Call them what they really are: commies, libtards, anarchists, criminals, homeless crack dealers, lazy leeching white students etc.


7 posted on 10/25/2011 6:20:36 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Nachum

As budgets go aren’t most of these gummit operations among the poorest 99%? So hey they belong on board too....


8 posted on 10/25/2011 6:22:44 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Nachum
On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.

On Tuesday, liberal 'Occupundit' Adrien Chen of The Gawker wrote about Thomas Ryan and Andrew Breitbart disparagingly and attempted to smear their reputations. Meanwhile, Chen continues to tell lies about the intentions of the Commie Campers currently squatting on Wall Street.

9 posted on 10/25/2011 6:26:06 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: jdege

An anarchist conspiracy supported by the President, the Democrats, Hollyweird elite, billionaires, unions, commies, nazi’s and everyne else....

Yep.... they fighting FOR the man.


10 posted on 10/25/2011 6:28:24 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Nachum

the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss


FWIW, Sept 17 is the date the Constitution was ratified.


11 posted on 10/25/2011 6:46:30 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: Nachum

And just why would these people (and I use the term very loosely) want to hide their motives and actions. I would think that if they were on the up and up they would be shouting it from the mountain tops rather than slinking and skulking like a cheap Democrat.


12 posted on 10/25/2011 6:50:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Nachum

He should have sent them to our own P.J Comix, he really knows how to use this sort of material!


13 posted on 10/25/2011 6:54:42 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Nachum

Ef-em if they can’t take a joke.


14 posted on 10/25/2011 7:29:13 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Forget AMEX. Remember your Glock 27: Never Leave Home Without It!)
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To: Nachum

Tom, you best be watching your back. The worthless slacker in the White House has no compunctions about murder.


15 posted on 10/25/2011 7:50:40 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: GeronL

“Snitched”? Like the cops couldn’t sign up for a mailng list.”

Cops doing their job, Homeland Security...hey, where IS homeland security in all these anarchist styled riots, anyway?

Good thing we have the FBI and NYPD, and good Americans who are thinking straight.


16 posted on 10/25/2011 7:57:26 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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