Cops infiltrated Occupy L.A.

Remember a few years ago when the Maryland Police State Police infiltrated protests in that state? That was a national scandal.

But police in Los Angeles didn't learn from the humiliation that befell law enforcement because of that campaign. Now it's been revealed that cops in L.A. used about a dozen undercover police detectives to infiltrate the Occupy encampment there to gather "intelligence" about what protesters planned to do.

Valuable police resources - wasted.

Didn't the Maryland scandal establish that this type of surveillance is illegal?

(Source: http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=madison&sParam=51606342.story)