in there and we've tried very significantly over the past year as an initiative at the partnership for civil justice to try and open up those records because we believe the people of the united states have the right to know what the government is doing the information the government's collecting and they have the right to actually put an end to this kind of abuse they have a store occleve been able to do that in the past we believe that people can do it again but first you have to know what's there you have to know what you're fighting the transparency before accountability how can we get accountability for this massive grid and how can we scale it back well i think the first step is in fact that exposure and getting the documents out and showing what governments intelligence agencies are doing is the first step for the public to become aware to know we all have this idea of sort of a shadowy intelligence agencies in the f.b.i. and it's kind of secret police like action and sort of police state ism if you will and we know about it but we need to tangibly have that information and when you have the i

in there and we've tried very significantly over the past year as an initiative at the partnership for civil justice to try and open up those records because we believe the people of the united states have the right to know what the government is doing the information the government's collected and they have the right to actually put an end to this kind of abuse they for storage we've been able to do that in the past we believe that people can do it again but first you have to know what's there you have to know what you're fighting because of course you have transparency before accountability how can we get accountability for this massive grid and how can we scale it back well i think the first step is in fact that exposure and getting the documents out and showing what governments intelligence agencies are doing is the first step for the public to become aware to know we all have this idea of sort of a shadowy intelligence agencies in the f.b.i. and it's kind of secret police like action and sort of police statism if you will and we know about it but we need to tentatively have that information and

satisfaction that comes when your suspicions are proven right new documents obtained by the partnership for civil justice fund or p.c. j asked prove that the is vision of the occupy portland protesters from their encampment was just about politics and bowing to the business shocker i know that the city of portland said they kicked out protesters from where they had set up camp in terry shrunk plaza off the name because of health and safety concerns they made it seem as if the protesters were somehow posing a hazard to the city and that's why law enforcement had to kick them out of the documents the p.c. j f obtained from the department of homeland security's federal protective service prove that no actually the eviction wasn't really about health and safety at all instead the eviction was more about politics and protecting business interests through the document it is clear that law enforcement undeniably took direction from what they called politicos in terms of how and when to evict even though officers on the scene admitted that the demonstration was peaceful the documents show how law enforcement and