Electronic Frontier Foundation has a detailed statement here.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Barrett Brown gets stiff sentence for "threats" despite formal dropping of charges associated with his hyperlink.
In a case widely reported before, Barrett Brown was
sentenced to almost five years in prison for a variety of charges (transmitting
threats and obstruction of justice) related to his sharing of a link to “classified
information” (including stolen credit card information), despite the fact that
the DOJ had formally dropped the charges regarding the link itself. Truth-out
has the story Brown also ordered to pay
$900000 in fines and restitution. Brown
has created “Project PM”. He supports
the idea that information obtained by hackers is important. Brown was not
accused of the hack itself, but of “after the fact” accessory activity,
associated with Anonymous. Brown had
uncovered a plan (at the security firm Stratfor) to discredit Glenn Greenwald
and Wikileaks.
Candice Bernd of Turthout reports the story here.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has a detailed statement here.
Electronic Frontier Foundation has a detailed statement here.
Kevin Gallagher speaks for “Free Barrett Brown” here.
The government reportedly tries to use the link to justify
the longer sentence. There is some
question as to whether he gets credit for time served.
The problems here including asking “who is a
legitimate journalist” (including an amateur blogger), and who has crossed the
line into “active participation”? Any
active blogger could stumble upon a link without knowing the information behind
it, and be charged with conspiracy for sharing it.
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