CIA's watchdog: No problem with NYPD Partnership

There is some question whether the Federal government was involved in the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street. Did the CIA teach the NYPD techniques and strategies that were used against OWS. If true it would be particular frightening. The CIA, in particular, has failed miserably in preventing terrorism and in predicting events abroad. They be should focusing on protecting America not stifling free speech at home :

The CIA said Friday its internal watchdog found nothing wrong with the spy agency's close partnership with the New York Police Department.

The agency's inspector general concluded that no laws were broken and there was "no evidence that any part of the agency's support to the NYPD constituted `domestic spying'," CIA spokesperson Preston Golson said.

[...]The revelations troubled some members of Congress and even prompted the U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper, to remark that it did not look good for the CIA to be involved in any city police department. Thirty-four lawmakers have asked for the Justice Department to investigate but so far that request has gone nowhere.

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