Surveillance


Office of Presidential Advance Manual on Disrupting Demonstrators


This document, originally obtained by the ACLU by a FOIA request, details methods that the Office of Presidential Advance, which coordinates all logistics for presidential visits, uses to disrupt demonstrators.

Favorite quotations:

On organizing a brute squad, "These rally squads can include, but are not limited to, college/young republican organizations, local athletic teams, and fraternity/sororities."

On suppression of dissent, "If it is determined that the media will not see or hear them and that they pose no potential disruption to the event, they can be ignored."