By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A federal judge has ordered the FBI, CIA and NSA to disclose any evidence that they spied on Occupy Philly protesters.
U.S. District Judge Berle Schiller gave the agencies 60 days to comply with the order, Al Jazeera reports.
Civil rights activists want to know whether the agencies spied on protesters who camped outside Philadelphia City Hall for seven weeks in 2011.
“The government should not be investigating its citizens simply because they’ve raised their voices in dissent, whether it’s against government or corporate policy,” civil rights lawyer Paul Hetznecker said Tuesday.
The right-to-know case follows the revelation that the FBI was monitoring Occupy Wall Street rallies in New York and other cities.
