And why they are acceptable to get abroad with it…
As I abstruse backward aftermost Thursday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the best able Rightwing lobbying accumulation in the country, was appear to accept been alive with their law abutting and a cardinal of clandestine cyber aegis and intelligence firms to ambition accelerating organizations, journalists and citizens who they acquainted were in action to their political activism, approach and believability of view.
As I went on the air Thursday night — my fifth in a six-day bedfellow hosting assignment on the nationally amalgamated Mike Malloy Actualization — revelations about the planned multi-million dollar political hit job by the security/intelligence firms alive to advance a arrangement for the U.S. Chamber (and accession one, about identical to it, on annual of Coffer of America) were aloof alpha to appear to light. Both plots were actuality developed by the Chamber and BofA by the complete aforementioned law firm, Hunton & Williams and with the cyber intelligence firms HBGary Federal, Berico Technologies & Palantir Technologies.
As the actualization began, I was able to address the news, based on an complete address from Lee Fang at ThinkProgress, that centralized emails from one of the firms, accustomed that VelvetRevolution.us (VR), a accelerating non-partisan, non-profit alignment co-founded by The BRAD BLOG, and its StopTheChamber.com advance were accurately accent as targets of the Chamber’s artifice which was proposed to accommodate the burying of a “false document”, in hopes they’d be about appear by VR or added accelerating groups, so the U.S. Chamber could afresh affirmation the groups complex had created a forgery.
The plan additionally complex creating “two affected cabal personas”, one at VR and accession at the altered Change To Win organization, which had active a affiliation of abutment groups to actualize a non-profit campaign, some months afterwards VR’s, alleged U.S. Chamber Watch. The plan presented by Aggregation Themis, as the three aegis firms alleged themselves, would afresh use one of the “fake personas” as “leverage to discredit the added while acknowledging the angary of the second” in hopes of publicizing the counterfeit actualization of some array of “conspiracy” amid the assorted accelerating organizations in adjustment to somehow discredit them.
As Thursday’s actualization continued, I accustomed acceptance that I, personally, forth with assembly of my family, had been accent in Themis’ proposed hit job, as ThinkProgress followed up with a added story, based on several added emails from HBGary’s CEO Aaron Barr. The email focused on me included names, claimed information, home addresses, etc. of myself, ancestors assembly and a cardinal of added assembly of VR. Naturally, I appear on the then-confirmed annual in the added hour of that night’s Malloy Show.
An hour or so afterwards the actualization went off the air Thursday night, The BRAD BLOG was no best reachable, as our server had been agape off band hard, so I was clumsy to chase up with abundant added information. The server we use, which is additionally the home for abounding added accelerating websites, was out of agency for about 24 hours, admitting I am told by our server admin that the complete abnormal abeyance was accompanying to a austere accouterments abortion which occurred at what was acutely a complete contrary — and, naturally, cautiously timed — moment. Moments afore Friday’s show, The BRAD BLOG was assuredly aback up and online.
Over the weekend then, I’ve assuredly been able to bolt up with a lot of what I had contrarily been clumsy to on Friday due to the server abeyance and the allegation to basic for Friday’s actualization while all of this was accident (and as the Egypt administration was annoyed at the aforementioned moment).
As I, and added journalists, accept been agronomics through some of the tens of bags of emails from HBGary’s CEO — as baseborn and appear by the “hacktivist” alignment calling themselves Anonymous, afterward Barr’s accessible blackmail to betrayal their names — I’ve been able to apprentice a lot added about the U.S. Chamber plan.
Part of the plan included highlighting me as a “Tier 1” amateur in a adult disinformation/discrediting arrangement that relied on high-tech accoutrement developed for the U.S. Government’s “War on Terror”.
Team Themis’ U.S. Chamber of Commerce plan was to arrange the complete aforementioned techniques and technology acclimated to clue terrorists, alarm organizations, and nations such as Iran, adjoin clandestine non-profit political advocates and citizens in the U.S.
As advancing (and there is a lot that every American aborigine and every affiliate of the American media affliction to be complete abashed by in this story) Hunton & Williams (H&W), the law abutting alive on annual of the U.S. Chamber and the Coffer of America, had been recommended to BofA, the nation’s bigger bank, for the alongside hit arrangement to ambition and discredit WikiLeaks, by our own U.S. Department of Justice.
In accession to Barr’s email alms claimed advice on me and my family, the H&W arrangement by Aggregation Themis, created for the U.S. Chamber, additionally included a Power Point presentation in which I am abandoned highlighted, with photograph, forth with my wife “Martha” and “2 boys, James and John Friedman” at our “home at 1055 Raywood Ln, Silver Springs, MD”.
Of course, I’m not affiliated and accept no accouchement and don’t alive in MD, but these are the huge clandestine firms accepting millions, if not billions, in U.S. tax-payer dollars to ambition terrorists, afterwards all, so why let such capacity like accuracy, or targeting innocent people, or citizens and journalists appliance their appropriate to chargeless accent get in the way of a abeyant $2 actor dollar per ages arrangement from the U.S. Chamber get in the way? The Chamber, of course, is additionally adjourned by the world’s bigger corporations who accept billions in tax-payer bailout dollars and subsidies from the U.S. Government. Can you feel the synergy? Aggregation Themis absolutely did…
The PowerPoint accelerate aloft was the third one in the abounding presentation beatific to John Woods and Bob Quackenboss of H&W, the U.S. Chamber’s attorneys, as “example letters that you requested to accord you a bigger abstraction of what we will be producing,” according to the email it was absorbed to, as beatific by Samuel Kremin of Berico Technologies. It was the aboriginal one absorption on a distinct individual. I’m honored.
“A brace things to accumulate in apperception however,” Kremin added, “are that these are aloof archetype letters and do not reflect the best efforts or authentic adeptness of our team.”
Indeed, abundant of the advice appears to be aloof sample arrangement stuff, admitting there are slides afterward the one focused on me which focus on accelerating political activists such as Ilyse Hogue, Administrator of Political Advancement and Communications at MoveOn.org and advocate Robert Weissman, admiral of Accessible Citizen, both accumulated accountability experts, Jane Johson, media administrator at SEIU, and others. So, naturally, these are “enemies” of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its affiliate corporations, as they acceptable see them.
The aggregation was acceptable abnegation abundant of the abstracts they’d already aggregate on all of us. The email appear by ThinkProgress aftermost Thursday night included somewhat added authentic capacity on me and alike my connected family, rather than the ‘wife and 2 kids’ actuality they acclimated to advertise their McCarthyesque affairs to attenuate clandestine U.S. citizens and organizations at the appeal of the Chamber’s acknowledged goons.
The aboriginal accelerate in the presentation Berico’s Kremin beatific to the U.S. Chamber attorneys abundant their “PIR’S” or “Priority Intelligence Requirements” for the advance to advance what they call as “attack groups”:
Damage Control
Two of the three assembly of Aggregation Themis — Berico and Palantir (the latter’s name was on the slides acclimated to authenticate the Coffer of American plan for advancing WikiLeaks, including a arrangement to try and discredit Salon announcer Glenn Greenwald) accept issued accessible statements break themselves from the third member, HBGary, in the deathwatch of these revelations. Berico’s is actuality [PDF]. Palantir’s is here.
Each announces that they are disengagement ties with HBGary and its CEO Aaron Barr who, according to the emails, is apparent as the best advancing of the Aggregation Themis assembly — admitting that may be because it was Barr’s emails which were appear about by Anonymous. What we’ve abstruse up until now comes abundantly via the bend of Barr’s emails to the others, and so we’ve abandoned apparent snippets, to date, from the added assembly of the (very real) cabal advancing calm at the bidding of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce via quoted argument of replies to and from Barr’s own addendum to Berico, Palantir and the DoJ-recommended H&W law firm.
Berico’s statement, from co-founders Guy Filippelli (CEO) and Nick Hallam (COO) includes the following:
Our administration does not disregard or abutment any accomplishment that proactively targets American firms, organizations or individuals. We acquisition such accomplishments amiss and are acutely committed to partnering with the best companies in our industry that allotment our amount values. Therefore, we accept discontinued all ties with HBGary Federal.
Given the above-noted Power Point presentation was beatific to H&W from Berico’s Analyst/Consult Samuel Kremin, and the email aboriginal appear on by ThinkProgress, highlighting complete claimed capacity on me and my family, was beatific by Barr to both John Woods of H&W and Patrick Ryan of Berico Technologies, the after-the-fact affirmation that Berico “does not disregard or support…effort[s] that proactively ambition American firms, organizations or individuals” is somewhat amusing on its face.
Moreover, as Berico’s annual claims they are a “veteran-owned baby business”, it seems cool that the “leadership” — the CEO and COO — of such a “small business” would be blind of a abundant bend (which one of their own advisers beatific to a acknowledged firm) for what was hoped to be, according to Barr’s emails, a $2 actor per ages arrangement for the abutting and its ally in slime.
For Palantir’s part, in their statement, co-founder and CEO Dr. Alex Karp analogously promised to “sever any and all contacts with HB Gary”, the accessible abatement guy, it seems, in this matter. On annual of his aggregation — which, as Emptywheel’s Marcy Wheeler abundant aftermost week, is no agnosticism scrambling in hopes of attention their advantageous government affairs (they’ve accustomed affairs to the tune of $6,378,332 aback 2007 from the Dept. of Aegis and the DoJ/FBI) — he claimed they “will not be complex in such activities.”
That, now that they’ve been bent and ashamed by actuality apparent as anon complex in such activities, naturally.
Karp’s annual went on to say:
“May accept had,” Dr. Karp? Allow me to brace your memory. Please agenda the logo on the top larboard of anniversary of these PowerPoint slides created as allotment of the BofA scheme:
Greenwald letters that Karp concluded up calling Greenwald abandoned to apologize aftermost anniversary and has promised to get aback to him with advice on whether or not Coffer of America or Hunton & Williams absolutely retained the companies of Aggregation Themis to backpack out the pernicious arrangement mentioned above. We’ll attending advanced to that.
Palantir offered added animadversion on Sunday to The Tech Herald, claiming, amid added things:
[T]he approach proposed by HBGary were never accustomed and never acted upon….• Palantir did not participate in any activities involving HBGary’s proposed tactics.• The accelerate advantaged “Potential Proactive Tactics” was authored abandoned by HBGary.• The Palantir logo on the accelerate is the aftereffect of a aggregate accouter and does not represent Palantir’s position.
Given the detailed, 12-page bend [PDF] blue-blooded “Corporate Advice Assay Cell”, submitted to Hunton & Williams on November 3, 2010, annual Palantir’s tightly-knit, side-by-side affiliation in the leash of cyber-security/intel firms calling themselves Aggregation Themis, it’s difficult to accept that Palantir was as innocent in these affairs — or alike as “progressive” — as their statements achievement to convey.
Wheeler letters in accession allotment apropos allotment of the Themis plan to charge$250/hour to actualize apocryphal personas and accomplishment amusing media sites such as Twitter to advice discredit accelerating journalists and activists such as those angry on annual of those authoritative $12/hour or beneath to “keep your architecture apple-pie or affliction for you back you’re sick”:
I doubtable about break themselves from “any activities involving HBGary’s proposed tactics,” is a complete anxiously called byword for Palantir, as both of the Power Point presentations I’ve accent so far — the one address Palantir’s logo targeting Greenwald and the one targeting me, beneath the Aggregation Themis banderole — adduce awfully pernicious and abhorrent McCarthyesque approach to be acclimated adjoin clandestine American citizens and organizations appliance their appropriate to chargeless accent and amiable accumulation in the annual of accelerating political advocacy.
While Palantir and their self-described best of chargeless accent and accelerating values, CEO Karp, accomplished out to the widely-read and complete arresting Greenwald to apologize for the proposed attacks on him and his credibility, as apparent on their logoed Power Point slide, to date, “Somehow,” as Wheeler noticed, “Dr. Karp forgot to apologize to Brad Friedman, accession announcer [Team Themis] has targeted.”
HBGary, the aggregation of the abhorrent Aaron Barr, initially claimed to “have been the victims of an advised bent cyberattack,” afterward their appraisal by Anonymous. They went on to baselessly allegation that “any advice currently in the accessible area is not reliable because the perpetrators of this offense, or bodies alive anxiously with them, accept anxiously biased assertive data.”
Um, I don’t anticipate so. Neither does anybody else. As The Tech Herald observed, “It is cool that Anonymous would coin bags and bags of emails or attachments” and addendum “the complete severance of ties by” the added two companies of Aggregation Themis, “leaves little allowance for agnosticism that the advice … is legitimate.”
And isn’t a bit atrocious to try and use the old “they anxiously biased data!” artifice afterwards you’ve already been bankrupt as accepting affected absolutely such a arrangement of artifice and bogus to bulb apocryphal abstracts and afresh accomplish that affirmation in adjustment discredit others?
Remarkably, Barr additionally had the temerity, afterwards all of this happened, to accuse to Forbes about the fall-out from his accommodation to go afterwards Anonymous: “Do I affliction it now? Sure, I’m accepting claimed threats from people, and I accept two kids. I accept two four-year old kids. Nothing is annual that.”
The irony was absolutely absent on this man.
[On a accompanying note, for admirers of Schadenfreude, you allegation apprehend the amusing and abundant central adventure of the absolutely epic, allegorical even, take-down by Anonymous of HBGary and Barr, its Egomaniac-in-Chief, including capacity on the 16-year old babe who managed to accretion acceptance to the aggregation countersign at the multi-million dollar cyber-security “intelligence” abutting as Anonymous afresh proceeded to booty over their website (see the bulletin they larboard on it here, including: “You’ve approved to chaw at the Anonymous hand, and now the Anonymous duke is bitch-slapping you in the face”); blemish Barr’s Twitter account; accidentally clean his iPad clean; and downloaded the complete aggregation email database. The account, as stitched calm from the now-public almanac by by Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson, is an burning classic.]
The self-discrediting Barr and HBGary accept been bound fabricated the scapegoats in all of this, and so accept accustomed the best advantage in the media to date. But the instigators abaft all of these awful schemes, the bag men at Hunton & Williams and the godfathers at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, accept still remained abundantly safe in media reports.
Hunton & Williams has yet to absolution a animadversion in attention to any of this, while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as is their wont, chose to go on the attack, charging, like HBGary, that they are absolutely the victims of “baseless attacks”.
In their aboriginal annual on Thursday, Tom Collamore autograph for the U.S. Chamber at ChamberPost, offered this appreciably cool “non-denial denial”:
As is her wont, Emptywheel’s Wheeler accomplished with the amusing acknowledgment “From the ChamberPot” in abbreviate adjustment (as, in turn, did about every distinct commenter on the Chamber’s blog.) You’ll agenda the Chamber’s abnegation of accepting “hired” HBGary, “the aegis firm” in question, presumably, as they were the ones accent in ThinkProgress’ antecedent “ChamberLeaks” report. But the emails appear from HBGary acknowledge they and their ally amalgam and afresh proposing the arrangement to the Chamber’s law abutting H&W, alike as a cardinal of the emails advertence H&W administration the advice with the Chamber.
So area they say HBGary was “not assassin by the Chamber or by anyone abroad on the Chamber’s behalf,” that could able-bodied be true, if abundantly artful and misleading.
[I interviewed Wheeler about the complete activity on Friday night’s Malloy Show. You can accept to that interview, in “Hour 1” appropriate here.]
A added non-denial abnegation issued by the U.S. Chamber the afterward day, claiming afresh to highlight “Another Smear” adjoin them afterwards ThinkProgress’ added commodity (the one highlighting the email targeting me and my family, amid others), was analogously disingenuous.
Both statements anxiously abhorred acceptance of the Chamber’s assimilation of Hunton & Williams and what the abutting did on annual of the Chamber. The added annual connected with such weasly phrases as “The U.S. Chamber never assassin or solicited proposals from HBGary, Palantir or Berico, the aegis firms actuality talked about on the web” and “No money, for any purpose, was paid to any of those three clandestine aegis firms by the Chamber, or by anyone on annual of the Chamber, including Hunton and Williams.”
Right. The arrangement — said to accept been annual $2 actor per ages — according to one of the emails said to be from Aaron Barr to his HBGary colleagues appear on Sunday (versus $2 actor for the complete contract, as ahead appear ), was allegedly never finalized. Wrote Barr:
I accept been sucked up for the last, seems like about 2 weeks alive the law abutting deal. The abeyant is huge for us. We are starting the pilot this week, 50K effort. Afterwards the pilot the end chump gets briefed. We were talking to the chief accomplice of the law abutting on Friday and he wants a abutting anchored amount by ages for 6 months and the amount we accept appear to achieve on is $2M per ages for the 3 aggregation members. That will according $500-$700K for HBG Federal, thats per month. We still allegation to abutting it, so I am spending best of my time authoritative abiding we draft them abroad and get the funding.
But the assignment H&W (“the law firm” allegedly referenced above) was accomplishing was absolutely on annual of the Chamber (“the end customer”), and it’s as cool H&W took it aloft themselves to seek proposals for such an abominable arrangement on annual of the Chamber with their direction, as it is to brainstorm that Aggregation Themis acted afterwards administration from either H&W or the Chamber, or both, as added emails advance in bucking to the Chamber’s claims of innocence.
Also annual acquainted here: While we do not yet accept affirmation that Aggregation Themis bankrupt the accord with H&W and the Chamber, it seems absolutely accessible that H&W was gluttonous aggressive proposals from altered “intelligence” firms as well. Did anyone abroad absolutely get the deal? Are they working, alike as we speak, on annual of the Chamber to advance perceived enemies through attempts at abrasive them? The Chamber’s two responses smartly abstain answers to those questions, or accountability in accepting sicced H&W adjoin their political opponents on their behalf.
Though I accept requested animadversion from all three cyber-security/intelligence firms as able-bodied as H&W on these matters, none accept responded to my concern at this time.
We do apperceive that H&W — the law abutting recommended to the Coffer of America by the DoJ to advice avert adjoin declared abstracts said to be anon appear by WikiLeaks — had been alive for the Chamber as continued ago as May 2010. That month, one of their attorneys, Michael J. Mueller, beatific a aggressive “cease and desist” letter to VR’s publicist, charging that a columnist absolution issued by the accumulation as allotment of the StopTheChamber.com advance fabricated “defamatory and apocryphal allegations apropos the United States Chamber of Commerce” in advertence to the campaigns affirmation that “The Chamber, like the mafia, additionally uses threats to get its way.”
Mueller’s letter, arising a mafia-like threat, went on to allegation “the accuracy of these individuals [who formed on StopTheChamber.com] is in question” and the abutting accepted the group’s columnist absolution be retracted. It wasn’t.
That wasn’t the aboriginal time VR had faced browbeating approach address of the mafia-like U.S. Chamber. In December of 2009, afterwards StopTheChamber had issued a accolade for advice arch to the arrest and aplomb of the Chamber’s CEO Tom Donohue, Fox “News” sprung to its aegis — afterwards the Chamber had angled them off, according to one of their reporters — consistent in a advanced folio FoxNews.com hit allotment on VR, authoritative the silly, but able claim, that the Chamber was actuality “HUNTED BY THE LEFT” with a “Bounty Put on Head of Chamber Boss.”
The result, as The BRAD BLOG abundant at the time, was an complete deluge of acutely clear and agitated afterlife threats and racist emails from Fox “News” readers beatific to the non-profit, non-partisan accelerating advancement organization.
Terror Accoutrement & Your Tax Dollars Acclimated Adjoin You
As I acicular out to Firedoglake’s David Dayen, during an account for a adventure he was accomplishing about these revelations on Friday, the day I was clumsy to column to The BRAD BLOG, one of the best maddening aspects about all of this is that journalists and accelerating citizens and organizations are actuality attacked by corporations application our own tax dollars adjoin us.
The U.S. Chamber is adjourned by its affiliate corporations, the world’s largest. Amid those funders are AIG and Coffer of America, both of whom accustomed billions in tax-payer bailouts, as able-bodied as fossil-fuel companies such as ExxonMobile, the best assisting association in the history of civilization, who, nonetheless, continues to accept billions in tax-payer subsidies anniversary and every year.
As organizations like VelvetRevolution.us and The BRAD BLOG beg for $5, $10 and $50 donations to break afloat — to address on and action for things like the appropriate to vote or a active allowance for all U.S. citizens or for bloom affliction or a adequate planet or to acknowledgment antagonism to the accessible airwaves or for accumulated and authoritative accountability or adjoin the cool bend of “corporate personhood” or adjoin the Chamber and their accumulated cronies’ ascendancy of about every aspect of American elections and capitalism — the Chamber musters millions, harvested from tax-payers, to discredit those aforementioned tax-payers with dishonest, thug-like, abstruse conspiracies of avengement — application their own tax dollars!
Worse, we now accept affirmation that they are enlisting, with the (at atomic passive) cooperation of the U.S. government, the complete aforementioned accoutrement that the U.S. government employs to allegedly action agitation about the world.
Doubt that? What “sold the Chamber to activate with,” according to Berico’s Patrick Ryan in one of the emails appear by Anonymous, was “the Iranian aircraft demo.”
The demo, as appear by Berico and Palantir on YouTube aftermost November, demonstrates how they accept developed software active by the Dept. of Aegis to map networks of organizations, individuals and companies via both classified and accessible antecedent information, in adjustment to actualize ties amid them, and afresh use those ties to discredit or infiltrate.
Here’s Palantir’s “Iranian Aircraft Demo” video…
…Note how the Palantir/Berico authoritative mapping software declared in the video, tracking shipments of weapons to agitator organizations about the world, mirrors the web of access acclimated to actualization (if absolutely inaccurately) who my declared assembly are in Palantir/Berico/HBGary’s Aggregation Themis Power Point presentation discussed at the alpha of this commodity — the complete presentation able by the three firms for the U.S. Chamber’s law abutting in hopes of accepting the $2 actor per ages accord to advance me and added accelerating advocates…
Your tax dollars at work. Angry adjoin terrorism. And you.
Corporate Immunity from the Rule of Law
Writing about Aggregation Themis’ Coffer of America artifice to discredit him, the one which about analogously mirrors the aforementioned group’s proposed artifice for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Glenn Greenwald, a Constitutional advocate in accession to now actuality a announcer and author, posits that the proposals, “quite possibly aggregate austere crimes.”
“Manufacturing and appointment affected abstracts with the absorbed they be appear acceptable constitutes bogus and fraud,” he says. “Threatening the careers of journalists and activists in adjustment to force them to be bashful is possibly extortion and, depending on the specific agency to be used, constitutes added crimes as well.”
But what, if anything, can or will be done by the U.S. Government for accountability adjoin the use of such “possibly criminal” approach acclimated adjoin American citizens by clandestine corporations (fueled by tax payer dollars)?
As it was the Dept. of Justice themselves who are said to accept recommended the abutting Hunton & Williams to the Coffer of America in their arrangement to advance WikiLeaks, the DoJ would acceptable allegation to recuse themselves from any such bent investigation. A Special Prosecutor would allegation to be assigned to the case, if the DoJ agreed. It seems cool that the Republican-led U.S. House Judiciary or Oversight Committees would be absorbed to alike authority hearings on a amount which would reflect so ailing on the corporations and top Rightwing lobbying accumulation to whom they are so dearly beholden. That seems about as authentic alike if it were Democrats who still captivated the majority. So it seems cool Congress would ask for a Special Prosecutor either. I’d adulation to be accurate wrong.
A civilian clothing could possibly be brought by the individuals or organizations targeted in these schemes beneath a cardinal of statutes that accept been appropriate to me over the weekend by a cardinal of altered sources.
Such a case, however, could additionally acquisition itself bumping up adjoin the U.S. Government if the Dept. of Justice absitively to adjure the once-arcane, now-ubiquitous alleged “State Secrets Privilege”, as acclimated to absolutely shut bottomward cases said to potentially acknowledge civic aegis secrets. Added generally than not, however, it’s now invoked artlessly to abstain embarrassment to the U.S. Government and/or its advantaged associates. (See Marcy Wheeler’s advantage aftermost anniversary of the government “declaring children’s nosebleeds a accompaniment secret”, not to acknowledgment the way it’s been abused for years adjoin civic aegis whistleblowers such as aloft FBI translator Sibel Edmonds and abounding others.)
As you can see above, such a law suit, they ability claim, could aftereffect in the acknowledgment of accoutrement and tactics, methods and agency acclimated in the alleged “War on Terror”, as developed by Palantir, Berico and HBGary and apprenticed for use by the government to the tune of added than $6 actor in the case of Palantir alone. Both Berico and HBGary additionally subsist off of astronomic government affairs in the “War on Terror”.
Still, the matter, at atomic from a civilian angle, is actuality explored.
For now, the adumbration of alarm accoutrement acclimated so aboveboard adjoin political opponents in the clandestine accumulated area is disturbing, to say the least. While the bend of paid political agents subversively application amusing media to discredit opponents has continued been doubtable by many, actuality we accept affirmation that these approach are, in truth, adequately accepted amid those who can allow to arrange them. That commenter who consistently shows up to annex a animadversion cilia on a specific affair may complete able-bodied be alive for $250/hour.
Greenwald, as usual, cuts to the affection of the advancing revelations:
Greenwald goes on to call how the Dept. of Justice appear they’d accompany abounding assets to buck adjoin Anonymous afterwards they’d briefly disrupted Paypal, MasterCard and Amazon’s websites in retaliations for those organizations acid off account to WikiLeaks, a media alignment answerable with no crimes whatsoever. Yet a “far added damaging and austere cyber-attack…launched at WikiLieaks” never brought a accessible chatter from the complete aforementioned DoJ in response.
He goes on to adduce blogger John Cole’s acknowledgment to this blend thusly:
At this point, it’s become absolutely difficuilt to altercation Cole’s bleak sentiments.
Team Themis’ “Corporate Advice Assay Cell” bend [PDF] submitted to Hunton & Williams aftermost November offers this as its final anticipation in the “Conclusion” graf:
[W]ho bigger to advance a accumulated advice assay adequacy than companies that accept been bazaar leaders aural the DoD and Intelligence Community.
When things draft up, as they have, audience of Aggregation Themis are now about affirmed to get off scot-free from accountability by the DoJ or anyone abroad in the government, and conceivably alike adjoin those clandestine citizens and organizations they were targeting. The U.S. Chamber, Coffer of America and all of the thugs angry to their abominable schemes knew that abounding able-bodied activity on.
So yes, as Aggregation Themis declared with confidence, “who better,” indeed.
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UPDATE 11:55pm PT: A few backward updates on this adventure now acquaint here, including added capacity on alarm techniques acclimated in the Chamber scheme; affirmation that the Chamber knew of the plot; Palantir announces abeyance of one of their employees; and a bit more…
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