Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

===Occupy Wall Street===
On October 18, 2011, Wolf was arrested and detained in New York during the [[Occupy Wall Street]] protests, having ignored a police warning not to remain on the street in front of a building. She spent about 30 minutes in a cell.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wells|first=Matt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/19/naomi-wolf-occupy-wall-street-arrested |title=Naomi Wolf arrested at Occupy Wall Street protest in New York|work=The Guardian |location=London |date= October 19, 2011|access-date=October 20, 2011 }}</ref> She disputed the NYPD's interpretation of applicable laws: "I was taken into custody for disobeying an unlawful order. The issue is that I actually know New York City permit law…I didn't choose to get myself arrested. I chose to obey the law and that didn't protect me."<ref>{{cite news |last=Cherkis |first=Jason |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street_n_1020986.html |title=Author Naomi Wolf Speaks Out About Her Arrest At Occupy Wall Street Protest |work=The Huffington Post |location=London |date=October 19, 2011 |access-date=August 21, 2012 |archive-date=March 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312025614/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street_n_1020986.html |url-status=live }} Ellipsis in the source.</ref>

A month later, Wolf argued in ''The Guardian'', citing leaked documents, that attacks on the [[Occupy movement]] were a coordinated plot orchestrated by federal law enforcement agencies. Those leaks, she alleged, showed that the FBI was privately treating OWS as a terrorist threat rather than a peaceful organization.<ref name="Crackdown">{{cite news|last=Wolf|first=Naomi | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy |title=The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy |work=The Guardian |location=London |date= November 25, 2011|access-date=February 29, 2012 }}</ref> The response to this article ranged from praise to criticism of Wolf for being overly speculative and creating a [[conspiracy theory]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Seaton|first=Matt|url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/28/naomi-wolf-reception-responses-critics |title=Naomi Wolf: reception, responses, critics |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=November 28, 2011|access-date=February 29, 2012}}</ref> Wolf responded that there was ample evidence for her argument, and proceeded to review the information available to her at the time of the article, and what she alleged was new evidence since that time.<ref>{{cite news|author=Wolf, Naomi | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/02/crackdown-occupy-controversy-rebuttal-naomi-wolf |title=The crackdown on Occupy controversy: a rebuttal |work=The Guardian |location=London |date= December 2, 2011|access-date=February 29, 2012 }}</ref>

Imani Gandy of Balloon Juice wrote that "nothing substantiates Wolf's claims", that "Wolf's article has no factual basis whatsoever and is, therefore, a journalistic failure of the highest order" and that "it was incumbent upon [Wolf] to fully research her claims and to provide facts to back them up."<ref>{{cite news |author=Gandy, Imani |url=http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/11/27/naomi-wolfs-shocking-truths-about-ows-crackdowns-are-truthless/#more-86898 |title=Naomi Wolf's 'Shocking Truths' on #OWS Crackdowns Are False |work=Balloon Juice |date=November 27, 2011 |access-date=February 24, 2015 |archive-date=February 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225054813/http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/11/27/naomi-wolfs-shocking-truths-about-ows-crackdowns-are-truthless/#more-86898 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Corey Robin]], a political theorist, journalist, and associate professor of political science at [[Brooklyn College]] and the [[Graduate Center]] of the [[City University of New York]], wrote on his [[blog]]: "The reason Wolf gets her facts wrong is that she's got her theory wrong."<ref>{{cite news|author=Robin, Corey|url=http://coreyrobin.com/2011/11/27/the-occupy-crackdowns-why-naomi-wolf-got-it-wrong/|title=The Occupy Crackdowns: Why Naomi Wolf Got It Wrong|date=November 27, 2011|access-date=February 28, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924032746/http://coreyrobin.com/2011/11/27/the-occupy-crackdowns-why-naomi-wolf-got-it-wrong/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a December 2012 ''Guardian'' article, Wolf wrote about<ref name=":0" /> [[FBI]] documents released following an [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|FOIA]] request from the [[Partnership for Civil Justice Fund]] revealed that the FBI used counterterrorism agents and other resources to monitor the national Occupy movement extensively.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Dominique |last1=Debucquoy-Dodley |url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/fbi-occupy/index.html |title=FBI considered Occupy movement potential threat, documents say |publisher=CNN.com |date=December 26, 2012 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-date=February 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214065147/http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/fbi-occupy/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The documents contained no references to agency personnel covertly infiltrating Occupy branches, but did indicate that the FBI gathered information from police departments and other law enforcement agencies relating to planned protests.<ref name="nyt2012-12-25">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html | title=F.B.I. Counterterrorism Agents Monitored Occupy Movement, Records Show | work=The New York Times | date=December 24, 2012 | first1=Michael S. | last1=Schmidt | access-date=April 19, 2013 | last2=Moynihan | first2=Colin | archive-date=May 13, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513104227/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, the blog [[Techdirt]] reported that the documents disclosed a plot by unnamed parties "to murder OWS leadership in Texas" but that "the FBI never bothered to inform the targets of the threats against their lives."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130102/09481421547/fbi-working-with-banks-chose-not-to-inform-occupy-leadership-assassination-plot-its-leaders.shtml |title=FBI, Working With Banks, Chose Not To Inform Occupy Leadership Of Assassination Plot On Its Leaders |first1=Timothy |last1=Geigner |publisher=Techdirt |date=January 2, 2013 |access-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-date=May 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526214447/http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130102/09481421547/fbi-working-with-banks-chose-not-to-inform-occupy-leadership-assassination-plot-its-leaders.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> Wolf wrote:<blockquote>It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall [2011]—so mystifying at the time—was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves—was coordinated with the big banks themselves.

How simple…just to label an entity a 'terrorist organization' and choke off, disrupt or indict its sources of financing.

[The FBI crackdown on Occupy] was never really about 'the terrorists'. It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens—it was always, that is to say, meant to be about you.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Wolf |first=Naomi |date=December 29, 2012 |title=Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy |access-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-date=April 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402194133/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' claimed that none of the documents revealed efforts by federal law enforcement agencies to disband the Occupy camps, and that the documents did not provide much evidence that federal officials attempted to suppress protesters' free speech rights. ''Mother Jones'' said the truth was "a far cry from Wolf's contention."<ref>{{cite news |first1= Gavin |last1= Aronsen |url= https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/occupy-fbi-documents-naomi-wolf |title= What the FBI's Occupy Docs Do—and Don't—Reveal |work= Mother Jones |date= January 7, 2013 |access-date= October 6, 2014 |archive-date= October 13, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141013073414/http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/occupy-fbi-documents-naomi-wolf |url-status= live }}</ref>