Revolution News Journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in Federal prison today. ---------------------- 48 months for this video Brown’s work has appeared in major outlets like Vanity Fair, the Huffington Post and the Guardian. He also founded Project PM, a project to crowdsource review of documents for investigative journalism. When making this video Barrett is detoxing from heroin and in an unstable frame of mind he makes threats to the FBI agent who raided his mothers home. 12 months were attributable to copy/pasting a link to hacked material from the Stratfor corporation. 3 months for concealing his laptops during a FBI raid. $890,250 in restitution to the Stratfor Corporation. Browns legal trouble began in 2011, when hackers obtained a voluminous set of emails from government contractor HBGary and placed them on the Internet. He turned to crowdsourcing to review records and emails taken from another government contractor, Stratfor, after hackers broke into their servers later in 2011. Those records included millions of emails discussing opportunities for rendition and assassination, and detailing attempts to subvert journalists, political groups and even foreign leaders. They also included tens of thousands of credit card numbers and their verification codes. In September 2012, as the government intensified its investigation of the Stratfor hack and Brown specifically, he posted a series of YouTube videos and tweets allegedly threatening an FBI agent. Brown was immediately arrested and charged with a variety of criminal charges related to the threats. Two months later, he was indicted in a separate case, with twelve charges. In the new case, the government alleged trafficking in stolen authentication features (the three-digit numbers on the back of a credit card) and aggravated identity theft for sharing a link to the Stratfor records that contained credit card information. While the government claimed Brown transferred the link from one IRC channel to another, it never alleged he transferred the actual files or the credit card numbers, or was in any way responsible for the Stratfor hack itself. https://eff.org/…/eff-statement-barrett-brown-sentencing Jeremy Hammond is currently serving 10 years in Federal prison for his part in the Stratfor hack, that at the time was unknown to be under the direction of one of the crew who had turned into an FBI informant. The Stratfor hack has been released by WikiLeaks as the Global Intelligence Files. The Stratfor Hack was suggested by an FBI informant. Nearly everyone who was involved is serving time for it. Now Barrett who reported on it and has already been locked up since 2012 is going to serve two more years.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:20:17 +0000
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