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Democracy Now! Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years (Original Post)
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Jul 2013
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al bupp
(2,179 posts)1. Democracy Now URL to Transcript
RC
(25,592 posts)2. The list grows longer.
Time to contract out building more prisons for the rest of the enemies of the people government.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)3. K&R.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)4. here is part 2
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)5. Relax, Obama's got this. nt
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)6. 11-Dimensional Chess.
Journalist Barrett Brown spent his 300th day behind bars this week on a range of charges filed after he used information obtained by the hacker group Anonymous to report on the operations of private intelligence firms. Brown faces 17 charges ranging from threatening an FBI agent to credit card fraud for posting a link online to a document that contained stolen credit card data. But according to his supporters, Brown is being unfairly targeted for daring to investigate the highly secretive world of private intelligence and military contractors. Using information Anonymous took from the firm HBGary Federal, Brown helped discover a secret plan to tarnish the reputations of WikiLeaks and journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. Brown similarly analyzed and wrote about the millions of internal company emails from Stratfor Global Intelligence that were leaked in 2011. We speak to Peter Ludlow, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, whose article "The Strange Case of Barrett Brown" recently appeared in The Nation. "Considering that the person who carried out the actual Stratfor hack had several priors and is facing a maximum of 10 years, the inescapable conclusion is that the problem is not with the hack itself but with Browns journalism," Ludlow argues. He adds that the case against Brown could suggest criminality "to even link to something or share a link with someone."