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when ryan shapiro did the request he had already gotten some documents through related litigation on another foyer request that revealed occupy houston was being targeted by somebody or some organization to be a staff to have their leaders assassinated and the f.b.i. had written a memorandum about this it was heavily redacted and what ryan was seeking to do was to find out what was behind those reactions whether the f.b.i. was investigating the. sniper allegations the plot that they had uncovered or whether they were instead just aka. monitoring occupy houston itself and are there any theories at this point as to you know what this information could be revealing i mean what what is being hidden here well the only thing we can know for certain from the f.b.i.'s response is that in redacting different parts of it they had to give the explanation as to which part of the law they were relying on to withhold it so we know that certain parts of the information are considered classified others would identify named individuals who might be responsible and still other parts of the f.b.i. said

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