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</font></div><div><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; line-height: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Data intelligence firms proposed a systematic attack against WikiLeaks</font></h1><p class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2.4rem; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box;">FEB 10 2011, 01:28</time>&nbsp;BY&nbsp;<span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box;">BY STEVE RAGAN -</span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">after a tip from Crowdleaks.org, The Tech Herald has learned that HBGary Federal, as well as two other data intelligence firms, worked to develop a strategic plan of attack against WikiLeaks. The plan included pressing a journalist in order to disrupt his support of the organization, cyber attacks, disinformation, and other potential proactive tactics.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Update:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Tech Herald was able to get in touch with Glenn Greenwald for his reaction to being singled out in the WikiLeaks proposal. He called the report creepy and disturbing. Moreover, he commented that the suggestions for dealing with WikiLeaks, along with the assumption that the organization could be undermined, were “hard to take seriously.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The listed mitigations, such as disinformation or submitting false documents, have been discussed before. In 2008, the Pentagon had similar ideas, so that aspect of the document was nothing new.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Greenwald, as a journalist, is a prolific writer on media topics. He is a harsh critic of political figures and the mainstream media. The suggestion made by the proposal that he would pick career over cause is “completely against” what he is about, he told us.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The only reason I do what I do is because im free to put cause before career,” he said.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pointedly, he reminded us that his work includes taking aim at political figures, which could be a source of professional leverage with scoops or favors, as well as news organizations who could offer him gainful employment. None of these actions paints a picture of a man who would pick career over his passion.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Update 2:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">WikiLeaks is hosting an official mirror of the sixth and final draft of the report. You can see a copy here.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Update 3:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Palantir Technologies has severed all ties with HBGary Federal and issued an apology to reporter Glenn Greenwald. More details here.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Update 4:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Berico Technologies has cut ties as well. More information is here.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Original Article:</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The tip from Crowdleaks.org is directly related to the highly public attack on HBGary, after Anonymous responded to research performed by HBGary Federal CEO, Aaron Barr. Part of Anonymous’ response included releasing more than 50,000 internal emails to the public. For more information, the initial coverage is here.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What was pointed out by Crowdleaks is a proposal titled “The WikiLeaks Threat” and an email chain between three data intelligence firms. The proposal was quickly developed by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies, after a request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm that currently counts Bank of America as a client.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The law firm had a meeting with Bank of America on December 3. To prepare, the firm emailed Palantir and the others asking for “…five to six slides on Wikileaks - who they are, how they operate and how this group may help this bank.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Hunton and Williams were recommended to Bank of America’s general counsel by the Department of Justice, according to the email chain viewed by The Tech Herald.</b> The law firm was using the meeting to pitch Bank of America on retaining them for an internal investigation surrounding WikiLeaks.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“They basically want to sue them to put an injunction on releasing any data,” an email between the three data intelligence firms said. “They want to present to the bank a team capable of doing a comprehensive investigation into the data leak.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hunton and Williams would act as outside counsel on retainer, while Palantir would take care of network and insider threat investigations. For their part, Berico Technologies and HBGary Federal would analyze WikiLeaks.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Apparently if they can show that WikiLeaks is hosting data in certain countries it will make prosecution easier,” the email added.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In less than 24-hours, the three analytical companies created a presentation filled with publically available information and ideas on how the firms could be “deployed” against WikiLeaks “as a unified and cohesive investigative analysis cell.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On January 2, The New York Times wrote about a late night conference call held by Bank of America executives on November 30. The reason for the call was to deal with a statement given by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on November 29, where he said that he intended to<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>“take down” a major American bank. </b>The country’s third largest financial institution needed to get the jump on WikiLeaks, so they started scouring thousands of documents, and auditing physical assets.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shortly after the late night conference call, the email from Hunton and Williams was sent.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Booz Allen Hamilton, according to the Times, was the firm brought in to help manage the bank’s internal review.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A month after the proposal for the initial December meeting on WikiLeaks was created, email messages from HBGary Federal show plans for a meeting with Booz Allen Hamilton. The meeting was set after Barr emailed Hunton and Williams about information he was gathering on WikiLeaks and Anonymous. Later, this information would be the direct cause of Anonymous’ attack on HBGary.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On page two you will find an overview of the proposal developed by the three data intelligence firms.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Note: There were several drafts of the proposal created before the sixth and final version was delivered. The emails released by Anonymous contain each of them. Most of the changes are formatting related and minor corrections.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The proposal starts with an overview of WikiLeaks, including some history and employee statistics. From there it moves into a profile of Julian Assange and an organizational chart. The chart lists several people, including volunteers and actual staff.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One of those listed as a volunteer, <b>Salon.com columnist, Glenn Greenwald</b>, was singled out by the proposal. Greenwald, previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York, has been a vocal supporter of Bradley Manning, who is alleged to have given diplomatic cables and other government information to WikiLeaks. He has yet to be charged in the matter.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Greenwald became a household name in December when he reported on the “inhumane conditions” of Bradley Manning’s confinement at the Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia. Since that report, Greenwald has reported on WikiLeaks and Manning several times.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Glenn was critical in the Amazon to OVH transition,” the proposal says, referencing the hosting switch WikiLeaks was forced to make after political pressure caused Amazon to drop their domain.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">[Earlier drafts of the proposal and an email from Aaron Barr used the word 'attacked' over 'disrupted' when discussing the level of support.]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The proposal continues by listing the strengths and weaknesses of WikiLeaks. For the strong points, there is the global WikiLeaks following and volunteers. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Outlining the weaknesses, the proposal lists financial pressure - due to the companies refusing to process WikiLeaks’ donations at the time - and discord among some of the WikiLeaks members.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Despite the publicity, WikiLeaks is NOT in a healthy position right now,” an early draft of the proposal noted. “Their weakness [sic] are causing great stress in the organization which can be capitalized on.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of the things mentioned as potential proactive tactics include feeding the fuel between the feuding groups, disinformation, creating messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization, and submitting fake documents to WikiLeaks and then calling out the error.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Create concern over the security of the infrastructure. Create exposure stories. If the process is believed to not be secure they are done. Cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters. This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France putting a team together to get access is more straightforward.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">After the tactics are discussed, the proposal outlines the highlights for each of the three data intelligence firms. From there, it concludes that in the new age of mass social media, the insider threat represents an ongoing and persistent threat “even if WikiLeaks is shut down.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Traditional responses will fail; we must employ the best investigative team, currently employed by the most sensitive of national security agencies.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The emails released by Anonymous make no mention of the proposal’s success or failure. Aside from a single meeting confirmation with Booz Allen Hamilton, and an email that expressed hope that HBGary was going to “close the BOA deal”, there is no other data available.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since the attack on their company, HBGary has issued a single statement via their website, and declined to comment when questioned by several news organizations.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“HBGary, Inc and HBGary Federal, a separate but related company, have been the victims of an intentional criminal cyberattack. We are taking this crime seriously and are working with federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities and redirecting internal resources to investigate and respond appropriately,” the statement reads.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“To the extent that any client information may have been affected by this event, we will provide the affected clients with complete and accurate information as soon as it becomes available. Meanwhile, please be aware that any information currently in the public domain is not reliable because the perpetrators of this offense, or people working closely with them, have intentionally falsified certain data.”</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While some of the information in the public domain may be false, the emails and documents seen by The Tech Herald certainly look legitimate. It is unlikely that Anonymous would bother to forge 50,000 emails, in addition to the screen shots of internal software, PDF files, Word Documents, or PowerPoint slides released to the public.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">However, on Tuesday evening, HBGary’s accusal that Anonymous was falsifying information started another round of rage on IRC, where some who associate under the banner of Anonymous gather.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As a result, there are rumors that more emails will be released in the coming days, including those belonging to Greg Hoglund, the co-founder of HBGar</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks/12751/">http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks/12751/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.salon.com/2011/02/11/threats_against_glenn_greenwald_wikileaks/</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We take threats against our own very seriously.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A bizarre plan for an attack on the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks and journalists construed as sympathetic to it — first reported by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">the Tech Herald</a>&nbsp;— clearly targets Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, saying that his “level of support” for WikiLeaks “needs to be disrupted.” The report (you can download the purported final draft&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.ch/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">here</a>) is listed as an “overview by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies,” and according to a string of e-mails also leaked, was developed following a request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm that represents, among others, Bank of America.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bank of America is the presumed next target of WikiLeaks, and has reportedly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/business/03wikileaks-bank.html?r=2&pagewanted=print" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">been bracing</a>&nbsp;for what’s to come.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The leaked report singles out other journalists, as well, and suggests that “these are established professionals that have a liberal bent, but ultimately most of them if pushed will choose professional preservation over cause …” And goes on: “Without the support of people like Glenn wikileaks would fold.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For a complete breakdown of what it all means, Glenn has a<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/02/11/campaigns" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">thorough, illuminating report</a>. But what the authors of the report meant when they plotted how Glenn and the others could be “disrupted” or “pushed” is as unclear as it is ominous — and has us deeply concerned. The report was exposed by Anonymous, the pro-WikiLeaks hackers who went after the companies that dropped services to the whistle-blowing organization last year. Anonymous was apparently acting in retaliation to HBGary, whose head of security services, Aaron Barr,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2274613/anonymous-hbgary-federal-ft" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">had earlier</a>&nbsp;claimed to have infiltrated the Anonymous network. HBGary has since responded, claiming that “information currently in the public domain” from the leak “is not reliable because the perpetrators of this offense, or people working closely with them, have intentionally falsified certain data.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the security firm Palantir wasted little time severing all relations with HBGary, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp issuing a statement saying that “I want to publicly apologize to progressive organizations in general, and Mr. Greenwald in particular, for any involvement that we may have had in these matters.” Karp also reached out and apologized directly to Glenn.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We have no reason not to take the report seriously. As a result, I’ve asked both Hunton and Williams and Bank of America to explain any role they played and address whether HB Gary (or any of the firms) were being paid, or promised payment, for its development. I’ll update this post when we hear their responses.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As bumbling as this whole saga sounds — Internet security firm can’t keep its shadowy dirty tricks campaign from being hacked — what’s outlined in these sets of proposals, as Glenn points out, “quite possibly constitutes serious crimes.” And as it relates to Glenn and the others, it constitutes an unconscionable attempt to silence journalists doing their jobs. We’ll continue to stay on this story until we get some real answers.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/14/143885/chamberleaks-briefed/</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">n Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — the big business lobby representing Exxon Mobil, Goldman Sachs, AIG, and other major corporations — released its&nbsp;<a href="http://www.chamberpost.com/2011/02/another-smear-from-the-center-for-american-progress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">second denial</a>&nbsp;in the ongoing&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">ChamberLeaks</a><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/chamberleaks-target-families/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">controversy</a>. In it, they claimed that HBGary’s proposal “was never discussed with anyone at the Chamber” and that “the Chamber was not aware of these proposals until HBGary’s e-mails leaked.” However, at least six separate leaked HBGary emails suggest that, contrary to their denials, the Chamber was repeatedly made aware of the activities of HBGary and two other private security firms.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As ThinkProgress laid out last week, the lobbying law firm Hunton & Williams (H&W) served as the&nbsp;<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/11/143669/chamberleaks-primer/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">go-between</a>&nbsp;for the Chamber and three private security firms — HBGary, Palantir, and Berico Technologies — who were collectively known as “Team Themis.” Emails indicate that three top lawyers at Hunton & Williams — John Woods, Bob Quackenboss, and Richard Wyatt — met on multiple occasions with the Chamber in order to brief them on Team Themis’s proposals.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">First, emails clearly indicate that the “client” whom Team Themis was assisting was indeed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/December-13-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">December 13</a>: Pat Ryan of Berico Technologies emailed John Woods that the team was excited “to provide the client with a powerful, innovative solution” and were “still working through the details of&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">our Phase I research/analysis support for the Chamber</strong>.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/January-9-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">January 9</a>: Pat Ryan emailed his Team Themis colleagues that he had received a message from H&W lawyer Bob Quackenboss’s secretary “requesting a conference call on Mon at 10am to&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">discuss the way ahead for the Chamber effort</strong>.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the Chamber’s insistence that they were “not aware” of HBGary’s proposals, a November 16 email between Aaron Barr of HBGary and Berico Technologies indicated that members of Team Themis had been communicating about contracts with Hunton & Williams:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><center style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/November-16a-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img src="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/November-16a-email.jpeg" alt="" title="November 16a email" width="394" height="368" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-144043" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 638px; height: auto; text-decoration: none; overflow: hidden; display: block; float: none; clear: both; width: 578px;" /></font></a></center><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other emails records indicate that H&W told Team Themis it was in constant contact with the Chamber about the project:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">–&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/November-16-email-attachment.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">November 16</a>: In a Team Themis internal memo, Eli Bingham of Palantir informed the group that H&W would soon “write and return a contract.”&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">A week later, on November 23, a meeting was scheduled where Richard Wyatt, one of H&W’s top laywers, would be “presenting to the client.”</strong>&nbsp;Bingham pushed to “have a team representative there, or a demo video.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/November-23-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">November 23</a>: H&W lawyer John Woods wrote to Sam Kremin of Berico Technologies to explain that fellow H&W laywer Bob Quackenboss was the point man between H&W and the Chamber. “Bob is our key client contact operationally,” Woods wrote, “and he will be called upon to explain to a different group what you all will actually be doing.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/November-29-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">November 29</a>: After Aaron Barr wrote the email detailing Team Themis’s plan to create a “<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/screenshotfixed.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">false document</a>” and “fake insider personnas (sic)” intended to trick the Chamber’s political opponents, Sam Kremin approved and said he would forward the plans to Bob Quackenboss in order to brief the Chamber.<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“When I give these to Bob,” Kremin wrote, “I will emphasize that these are just examples to give him an idea of what he is pitching to the Chamber.”</strong></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/December-1-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">December 1</a>: Matthew Steckman of Palantir updated Team Themis on a meeting he had just concluded with H&W. Discussing the proposed $2 million project fee, Steckman noted that H&W lawyer Richard Wyatt was “looking to push that number to the Chamber.” In the meantime, non-disclosure agreements were being drawn up for the team. H&W was enthusiastic because they saw the “potential for huge gains in this market especially since ‘the results of the election made some people angry.'”&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Steckman wrote that following Phase I of the project, H&W was “looking forward to briefing the results to the Chamber to get them to pony up the cash for Phase II.”</strong>&nbsp;That meeting had been set to take place today, February 14. It’s unclear whether it will still happen.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Feb.-3-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">February 3</a>: Pat Ryan of Berico Technologies wrote Team Themis that they should meet with H&W lawyer Bob Quackenboss in the next few days to “select focused topic(s) for the demo to the Chamber” that had been scheduled to occur today.&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ryan noted that Quackenboss told him that a separate demo had “sold the Chamber in the first place.”</strong></font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While many questions remain in the unfolding ChamberLeaks controversy, what’s clear is that this multitude of emails clearly contradicts the Chamber’s claim that they were “not aware of these proposals until HBGary’s e-mails leaked.” Rather, H&W’s lawyers appear to have consistently kept the Chamber informed on Team Themis’s progress.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><div class="post-update" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 1rem 0px; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: dashed; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="update-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0.65rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bolder; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">UPDATE</span>&nbsp;<span class="update-timestamp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" /></font></div><p id="u" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.65rem 0px; padding: 3px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An October 25, 2010&nbsp;<a href="http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/October-25-email.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">email</a>&nbsp;also shows H&W laywer John Woods planning to meet with the Chamber in early November regarding Team Themis’s project. Woods wrote to a Palantir engineer that speaking “Next Wednesday or Thursday works well, as I have to make our formal pitch to the client early the following week.”</font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Stratfor employees also seemed to take a</span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;keen interest in Jeremy Scahill’s writings about Blackwater&nbsp;</span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: medium;">in&nbsp;</span></span><em style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Nation</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: medium;">, copying and circulating entire articles, with comments suggesting a principle interest was in the question of whether Blackwater was setting up a competing intelligence operation. 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</font></div><div><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">On January 22nd&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">US journalist Barrett Brown will&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">know</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;whether he will receive up to 8.5 years imprisonment for what are basically minor offences he</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">allegedly&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">committed in response to FBI provocation – all because&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">of&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">h</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">is investigations in the murky dealings of private security companies and their secret links with the US Government. One such company&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">he was looking into</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">was Stratfor – information about which was made available&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">allegedly by J</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">eremy Hammond,&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">now serving 10 years imprisonment</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">.&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">However, m</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ore than</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">twenty&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">of the world’s&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">mass&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">media outlets were party to publishing this information, but were not prosecuted.&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Why? Because in doing so the patent absurdity of&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">the&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">prosecution&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">cases against&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown and Hammond&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">would be laid bare. Below, we&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">publish</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;a forensic analysis of&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">what was published and by which outlet&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">and&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">in doing so&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">provide a cogent if not legal argument why</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown’s case should be thrown out and the judgement against&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Hammond&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">overturned</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">.</b></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Firstly, it’s important to understand how and why the US justice system in general has little to do with justice. The US gulag has the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18613" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">largest prisoner population in the world</a>&nbsp;and (with the exception of the Seychelles)<a href="http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;more prisoners per population</a>&nbsp;than any other country in the world, including China, Russia and Iran. The USA has less than 5% of the world’s population and 23.4% of the world’s prison and jail population (adult inmates). One in eleven of the US prison population are black, one in twenty-seven are Latinos and one in forty-five Caucasian. 92% are male. Moreover, most do not even get a jury trial: instead it is normal for those arrested to be told that if they plead guilty a more serious charge will then be dropped. Few of those arrested are able to afford the disproportionately high legal fees and so a quick deal is their only option. Thus the notion that alleged&nbsp;offenders are assumed innocent until proven guilty and are subject to the consideration of twelve of their peers is pure myth.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">These considerations apply to both Brown and Hammond, both of whom, separately and in their different ways, were merely guilty of deploying 21<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: 0px; line-height: 1; position: relative; bottom: 1ex; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">st</span></span></span>&nbsp;<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">c</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">entury methodologies to&nbsp;</span></span>help shed light on crimes and corporate and intelligence scandals that took place around the world. Many newspapers and magazines published the information they helped reveal. But instead of awarding accolades for what Brown and Hammond did, the corporate-state apparatus closed ranks and&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">decided to prosecute them. That prosecution</span></span>&nbsp;is entirely political – an act of revenge so as to discourage further examples of digital investigative research, particularly when that research is aimed at the corporate state establishment. Consequently, u<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ntil&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown and Hammond are released they can only be regarded as political prisoners.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Below, in Part A we examine in detail the case against Brown; in Part B the case against Hammond; in Parts C and D we provide a list of those media outlets&nbsp;that collaborated in publishing the information/data that Brown analysed and Hammond exposed as well as a few examples of actual articles. Finally, courtesy of Wikileaks, we provide an Appendix that gives examples of USG and Stratfor co-operation as well as other dirty deals.</font></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note: to get an update on Julian Assange, click&nbsp;<a href="http://t.co/7ttvR618OC" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here</a>.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A. Barrett Brown</font></b></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">1.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Background to&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">his case</span></span></font></b></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Barrett Brown is a US journalist whose work has appeared in the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/barrett-brown" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Guardian</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/barrett-brown" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Vanity Fair</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Huffington Post</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/panelists/51376-barrett-brown" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Businessweek</a>,</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">&nbsp;<a href="http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">True/Slant</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.csicop.org/author/barrettbrown" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Skeptical Inquirer</a>&nbsp;and many other outlets.</span></span><span id="more-525" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" /></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He was originally charged with forwarding a link</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> to the information exposed about&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stratfor.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Stratfor</a>&nbsp;that also included information about Stratfor employees, including their credit card details. But this formed only a tiny part of the vast amount of data. Nor, it should be added, did Brown use this data</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">for financial gain.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">In the end t</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">he US government agreed to&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">d</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ro</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">p</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;the&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">more serious&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">charges</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">after lawyers filed&nbsp;<a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/files/BB_motiontodismiss2.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">a legal memorandum</a>:&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">they correctly</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/04/attorneys-barrett-brown-hyperlink-hacked-material-want-case-dismissed" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">argued</a>&nbsp;the</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">se charges were </span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">effectively&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">a violation of the First Amendment, pointing out that “</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">publishing a hy</span></span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">perlink does not itself move, convey, select, place or otherwise transfer, a file or document from one location to another”.</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> Ahmed Ghappour (who directs the Liberty, Security and Technology Clinic, at the University of California <b>Hastings College of Law)</b>&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">stated</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">: “Looking at that [the sharing of an online link] as criminal conduct would probably bring an end to all digital journalism, period. There would be no reporting on leaks.”</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The remaining charges included transmitting a threat in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">interstate commerce,</span> being an accessory after the fact to an unauthorized access to a protected computer (i.e. the exposure by Hammond of the Stratfor data) and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">obstructing the execution of a search warrant (by allegedly hiding his laptops). These laptops contained journalistic sources and work product, including a book-in-progress.</span> The First Amendment protects reporters from revealing confidential information or sources. The New York Court of Appeals recently held that “There is no principle more fundamental or well-established than the right of a reporter to refuse to divulge a confidential source.”</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">With Brown (and Hammond – see below) the fundamentals of a&nbsp;<a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/files/BB_memorandum.pdf" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">reporter’s</a>&nbsp;rights were completely ignored. The intention of the US Government here was simple: to&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">imprison and silence those intent on using the advances of the information age to expose&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">unpalatable truths, including the extensive connections between private security companies to government, the military, the defense world and think-tanks.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Tellingly. t</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">he original&nbsp;<a href="http://pastebin.com/vZEteA3C" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">search warrant</a>&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">served to Brown also&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">listed </span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">HBGary and Endgame Systems,</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> two firms which were written about at&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ProjectPM, which Brown contributed to.&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Project PM</a>&nbsp;is a crowd-sourced investigation that focuses on private contractors and their dealings with governments and uses a combination of open source intelligence, e-mails leaked by hackers, and conventional research.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">B</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">r</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">own also contributed to the investigations into&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Cubic_Corporation" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cubic Corporation</a>&nbsp;and their alleged links to the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Trapwire" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Trapwire</a>&nbsp;mass surveillance system</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The US Department of Justice was&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">implicated in schemes to go after critical journalists and activists – see:&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Team_Themis" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Team Themis</a>.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brown was also issued with a gagging order and subpoenaed to reveal the names of his contacts and fellow investigators.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">2. The&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">December 2014&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Sentencing h</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">earing</b></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December Brown was due to be sentenced but the day long hearing turned into a farce and another hearing for sentencing was deferred until January. Here is what happened…</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Firstly,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">t</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">he prosecution took the opportunity to bring up matters relating to&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">the charge&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">that&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">had been&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">dropped.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown’s&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">attorney&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">took the opportunity to make it clear that&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">the prosecution’s claim about the link “has serious repercussions to journalists, researchers, people who link to public information… The government’s argument should chill the bones of every journalist and every researcher.”&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Of course, the prosecution should not have been allowed to refer to this earlier charge and that they were was an error by the judge (and so may be subject to an appeal). T?his should have been challenged.</span></span><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">.</span></span></strong></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Secondly&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">and b</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">izarrely o</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ne of the items of&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">‘</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">evidence</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">‘</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;raised by the prosecution was a quote from a tweet by Brown. The quote was “kill Assange”.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">An&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">explanation was quickly furnished by Julian Assange via a&nbsp;<a href="https://wikileaks.org/Assange-statement-on-the.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">statement</a>&nbsp;on the Wikileaks website.</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">t read as follows…”The most serious claim against Barrett Brown is that six months after the March 6, 2012 FBI raid on his mother’s address he tweeted “illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. It sounds bad. It is a clear incitement to murder. The FBI claim that the “son of a bitch” Barrett was referring to was one of their agents. That is false. The “son of a bitch” is me—and the person who called for my assassination was not Barrett Brown. Barrett’s full retweet was “dead men can’t leak stuff… illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. The quote is from <b>Fox news host Bob Beckel,</b> who called for my assassination—an injustice that Barrett was trying to draw attention to.</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQW0US2sJw" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Here is the video&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQW0US2sJw" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">proof.</a>&nbsp;The FBI took no action against Bob Beckel or the numerous other senior figures calling for my assassination. <b>A bill was put before Congress to declare WikiLeaks staff “enemy combatants” in order to make our assassination legal. It did not pass</b>, but the FBI still refused to act. Two days after Barrett retweeted the Bob Beckel statement, the FBI arrested not Bob Beckel, but Barrett Brown. He has been in jail ever since.”&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">By raising this matter in court,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">it can only be assumed that the prosecution was attempting to&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">further prejudice the judge&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">(but instead merely&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">succeeded in demonstrating gross incompetence</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">).</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So how is this process different in any way from that of a newspaper sorting through and analysing data and information, leaked or otherwise, prior to being written up into an article for publication? Well, if you are stuck for an example, two immediately spring to mind: the Guardian newspaper forensically analysed the masses of data leaked by Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, or Rolling Stone magazine using the same treatment in relation to information leaked about Stratfor.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, there is no difference. Barrett Brown was merely doing his job. But in doing so, FBI officers decided to provoke him. The subsequent prosecution, as already argued&nbsp;<a href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/barrett-browns-prosecution-is-revenge-for-exposing-secret-workings-of-us-private-intelligence/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here</a>, was never about a crime but was political and an act of revenge in order to discourage further examples of digital investigative research, particularly when that research is aimed at the corporate state establishment.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">3.&nbsp;</span></span></strong><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown’s research via ProjectPM</span></span></strong></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Below, is a reprise of&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown’s work via ProjectPM (summ</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">arised and adapted from the&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ProjectPM website):</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. Abraxas</font></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?ABRAXAS_COMPANY" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Abraxas</a>&nbsp;is an intelligence contractor that was revealed as a significant player in&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Persona_Management" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Persona Management</a>&nbsp;(i.e fake IDs to snoop on political activists or create propaganda). Abraxas also acquired&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Anonymizer" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Anonymizer</a>&nbsp;(which includes encrypted email services) in May 2008. Two years later Abraxas was purchased by Cubic (see below) for $124 million in cash.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. Trapwire</font></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abraxas Corporation also created&nbsp;<a href="https://trapwire.net/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">TrapWire</a>&nbsp;under its subsidiary Abraxas Applications. TrapWire is/was linked to the&nbsp;<a href="http://nsi.ncirc.gov/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">National Suspicious Activity Reporting (NSI) Initiative</a>, a program designed to help aggregate reports of suspicious activity around the country. It was claimed that TrapWire could eventually extend to fusion centers around the USA as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg71298/html/CHRG-112hhrg71298.htm" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">congressional testimony from June 2011</a>&nbsp;indicated that the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department was part of a trial project of the Department of Homeland Security to test the use of TrapWire.&nbsp; The Texas Department of Public Safety, which operates the Texas Fusion Center, also&nbsp;<a href="http://wl.wikileaks-press.org/gifiles/docs/380450_re-close-hold-.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">purchased TrapWire software in 2010</a>. For more on Trapwire, click&nbsp;<a href="https://storify.com/bendoernberg/test-post" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here</a>.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Ntrepid</font></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.ntrepidcorp.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Ntrepid</a>&nbsp;also provides Persona Management services to US and unspecified “multinational forces” in conjunction with the&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/CENTCOM" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">CENTCOM</a>&nbsp;information operations program&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Operation Earnest Voice</a>. The technology is supposedly for use with non-US forums and social media outlets, thus circumventing US laws against impersonation. Ntrepid’s corporate registry lists Abraxas’ previous CEO and founder, Richard Helms, as the director and officer, along with Wesley Husted, the former CFO, who is also an Ntrepid officer. The shifting company names and management led to speculation that Ntrepid is a front company for Abraxas.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. Cubic Corporation</font></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.cubic.com/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cubic</a>&nbsp;is a global leader in <b>defense, </b>and transportation systems and services and an emerging supplier of smart card and RFID solutions.</span>&nbsp;<a href="http://i.imgur.com/yuOt5.jpg" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">This picture</a>&nbsp;provides an idea of the relationships between Cubic Corp, other companies, and individuals. There was also controversy about a global surveillance system called<a href="http://www.trapwire.com/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">&nbsp;Trapwire</a>. Despite&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cubic</a>‘s denial of affiliation with Trapwire,&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Abraxas" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abraxas</a>Corporation subsidiary Abraxas Dauntless shares an interlocking directorate, including&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Hollis_Helms&action=edit&redlink=1" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Richard</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Hollis_Helms&action=edit&redlink=1" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hollis Helms,</a>&nbsp;with both TrapWire and&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Ntrepid" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ntrepid</a>&nbsp;at least as recently as 2012 and appears to have done so continuously since its merger with&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cubic</a>. For more on Trapwire, click&nbsp;<a href="http://publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">here</a>.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. HBGary</font></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">HBGary <b>Federal</b> was set up with Aaron Barr as CEO to provide services and tools to the US Government that might require security clearance.</span> In February of 2011,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hbgary.com/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">HBGary</a>&nbsp;and HBGary Federal were raided by several Anons, who released over 70,000 e-mails acquired from their shared server. A subsequent review of those materials by journalists and activists revealed that the firm partnered with&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Palantir" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Palantir</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Berico" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Berico</a>&nbsp;to provide information operation services to prospective clients under a partnership known as&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Team_Themis" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Team Themis</a>. Evidence of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">persona management and its use by CENTCOM </span>was discovered via these e-mails, as also a complex US military surveillance and propaganda apparatus – referred to as&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Romas/COIN" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Romas/COIN</a>. See also&nbsp;<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/the-ridiculous-plan-to-attack-wikileaks.ars" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Spy games: Inside the convoluted plot to bring down WikiLeaks.</a></font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">4. Summary&nbsp;</span></span></strong><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">of&nbsp;</span></span></strong><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Brown’s case</span></span></strong></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/barrett-brown-faces-105-years-in-jail-20130905" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Rolling Stone&nbsp;</span></span></a></em><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">magazine&nbsp;</span></span></em><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">posited that “Brown’s case is a bell we</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">a</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">ther for press freedoms in the new century, where hacks and leaks provide some of our only glimpses into the technologies and policies of an increasingly privatized national security-and-surveillance state</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">”.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Noam Chomsky&nbsp;<a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/supporters/#chomsky" target="blank" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">states</a>&nbsp;that Barrett Brown is being “punished for the crime of taking citizenship seriously.”</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So how is the process that Brown decided on different from that of, say, a newspaper sorting through and analysing data and information, leaked or otherwise, prior to being written up into an article for publication? If you are stuck for an example, two immediately spring to mind: a) the Guardian newspaper forensically analysed the masses of data leaked by Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, or b) Rolling Stone magazine used the same treatment in relation to the information leaked about Stratfor (see below). Of course, there is no real difference. FBI officers decided to provoke Brown because he was merely doing his job.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The December hearing also demonstrated how</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;the case against Brown is seriously flawed, if not vexatious. As such&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">his prosecution&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">should be deemed legally unsafe. Brown’s&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://freebarrettbrown.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">supporters</span></span></a><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;hope that the judge will order his release as an act of clemency, given he has already served two years in prison.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">To see documents relating to his prosecution – click&nbsp;<a href="https://freebarrettbrown.org/documents-and-transcripts/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here</a>; to see a site supporting Brown, click&nbsp;<a href="https://freebarrettbrown.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here</a>; to see a website associated with Brown’s work, click&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here.</a>&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">F</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">or an excellent (2013) on the persecution of Brown, see:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/21/barrett-brown-persecution-anonymous" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/21/barrett-brown-persecution-anonymous</a></span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><b style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">B. Jeremy <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hammond</span></font></b></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Jeremy Hammond is a US computer programmer, political activist and former member of the online collective Anonymous. In December 2011, Anonymous and Lulzsec-affiliated hacktivists allegedly infiltrated security company Stratfor’s servers and, over the course of several weeks, unearthed more than five million emails dating back to 2004. As a result of a tip-off by an FBI infiltrator Hammond was arrested. A</span></span>fter being threatened with 40 years to life in prison Hammond accepted a non-cooperating plea deal to one count of violating the arcane and draconian&nbsp;<a href="https://freejeremy.net/the-case/cfaa/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a>.&nbsp;<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">He</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sparrowmedia.net/2013/11/jeremy-hammond-sentence/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">was sentenced</a>&nbsp;to 10 years in prison.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since his arrest in March of 2012, Jeremy has been cut off from his friends and family, and punished with extensive stays in solitary confinement. T<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here is a valid case for a sentence reduction, if not a pardon. His official support site is&nbsp;<a href="https://freejeremy.net/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">here</a>.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">C</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">.&nbsp;</b><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Media partners</b></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WikiLeaks organised an investigative partnership with more than 25 media organisations and activists to inform the public about the huge body of documents retrieved from Stratfor. These organisations were provided access to a sophisticated investigative database developed by WikiLeaks and together with WikiLeaks they conducted journalistic evaluations of these emails.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The argument is simple: if numerous media outlets around the world, including the USA, analyse and publish the data about Stratfor but are not prosecuted, then neither should Hammond and Brown for their respective alleged roles in that process.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The following are the media outlets – partners to Wikileaks – that published information made available by the hacking of Stratfor:</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Al Akhbar – Lebanon –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://english.al-akhbar.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Al Masry Al Youm – Egypt –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.almasry-alyoum.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Bivol – Bulgaria –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://bivol.bg/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://bivol.bg</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;CIPER – Chile –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://ciperchile.cl/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://ciperchile.cl</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Dawn Media – Pakistan –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.dawn.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.dawn.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;L’Espresso – Italy –&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><a href="http://espresso.repubblica.it/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://espresso.repubblica.it</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;La Repubblica – Italy –&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.repubblica.it/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.repubblica.it</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;La Jornada – Mexico –&nbsp;</span><a href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-forensic-analysis-as-to-why-legal-judgements-against-barrett-brown-jeremy-hammond-should-be-overturned/www.jornada.unam.mx/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">www.jornada.unam.mx/</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;La Nacion – Costa Rica –&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.nacion.com/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.nacion.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Malaysia Today – Malaysia –&nbsp;</span><a href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/a-forensic-analysis-as-to-why-legal-judgements-against-barrett-brown-jeremy-hammond-should-be-overturned/www.malaysia-today.net" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">www.malaysia-today.net</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McClatchy – United States </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">–&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.mcclatchydc.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Nawaat – Tunisia –&nbsp;</span><a href="http://nawaat.org/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://nawaat.org</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;NDR/ARD – Germany –&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.ndr.de/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.ndr.de</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Owni – France –&nbsp;</span><a href="http://owni.fr/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://owni.fr</a><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.dawn.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
<img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Pagina 12 – Argentine –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.dawn.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pagina 12 – Argentina –&nbsp;</a><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.pagina12.com.ar/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">www.pagina12.com.ar</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Plaza Publica – Guatemala –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://plazapublica.com.gt/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://plazapublica.com.gt</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Publico.es</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;– Spain –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.publico.es/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">www.publico.es</a>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;" />&nbsp;Rolling Stone</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> – United States –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.rollingstone.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Russian Reporter – Russia –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://rusrep.ru/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://rusrep.ru</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Sunday Star-Times – New Zealand –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.star-times.co.nz/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">www.star-times.co.nz</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Ta Nea – Greece –-&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.tanea.gr/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.tanea.gr</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Taraf – Turkey –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.taraf.com.tr/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://www.taraf.com.tr</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The Hindu – India –&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://www.thehindu.com/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">www.thehindu.com</a>
<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><img class="puce" src="https://i1.wp.com/wikileaks.org/squelettes/puce.gif" alt="-" width="8" height="11" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Yes Men </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">– Bhopal Activists – Global&nbsp;</span><a class="spip_url spip_out" href="http://theyesmen.org/" rel="nofollow external" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">http://theyesmen.org</a></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">D</b></span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">.&nbsp;</b></span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">E</b></span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">xamples of what media outlets published about Stratfor</b></span></span></font></p><ul style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><li style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rolling Stone:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/wikileaks-stratfor-emails-a-secret-indictment-against-assange-20120228" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">‘Wikileaks Stratfor emails: a </a><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/wikileaks-stratfor-emails-a-secret-indictment-against-assange-20120228" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">secret indictment against Julian Assange?</a></font></li><li style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Dot:<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-stratfor-walmart-per-bank/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">&nbsp;‘</a><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-stratfor-walmart-per-bank/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Walmart</a><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/wikileaks-stratfor-walmart-per-bank/" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> bid Stratfor to investigate rival CEO’s alleged affair’</a></font></li><li style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Owni:&nbsp;<a href="http://owni.eu/2012/02/27/wikileaks-stratfor-gifiles/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">‘Wikileaks lays bare Stratfor’s inner workings’</a></font></li><li style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Star (Canada):&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/15/wikileaks_documents_reveals_13_federal_departments_had_contracts_with_stratfor.html" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">‘Wikileaks documents reveal 13 federal departments had contracts with Stratfor’</a></font></li></ul><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Appendix</font></b></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Wikileaks the Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor – reveal “the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but in reality provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods.” For example&nbsp;:</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control… This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase” – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The material also contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Again, from Wikileaks: “The emails expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.”</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the “Yes Men”, for the US chemical giant Dow&nbsp;Chemical (the activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow&nbsp;Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in&nbsp;Bhopal, India; the disaster led to&nbsp;thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage).</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. In August 2011, Stratfor CEO George Friedman confidentially told his employees&nbsp;: “We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I don’t plan to do the perp walk and I don’t want anyone here doing it either.”</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to “utilise the intelligence” it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS&nbsp;: “What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like”.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails show that in 2011 Goldman Sach’s Morenz invested “substantially” more than $4million and joined Stratfor’s board of directors. Throughout 2011, a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent. But, confidentially, Friedman told StratFor staff&nbsp;: “Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral… It will be useful to you if, for the sake of convenience, you think of it as another aspect of Stratfor and Shea as another executive in Stratfor… we are already working on mock portfolios and trades”. StratCap was due to launch in 2012.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;Stratfor emails reveal a company that cultivates close ties with US government agencies and employs former US government staff. It is preparing the 3-year Forecast for the Commandant of the US Marine Corps, and it trains US marines and “other government intelligence agencies” in “becoming government Stratfors”. Stratfor’s Vice-President for Intelligence, Fred Burton, was formerly a special agent with the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and was their Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite the governmental ties, Stratfor and similar companies operate in complete&nbsp;secrecy with no political oversight or accountability. Stratfor claims that it operates “without ideology, agenda or national bias”,&nbsp;yet the emails reveal private intelligence staff who align themselves closely with US government policies and channel tips to the Mossad – including through an information mule in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yossi Melman, who conspired with Guardian journalist David Leigh to secretly, and in violation of WikiLeaks’ contract with the Guardian, move WikiLeaks US diplomatic cables to Israel.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ironically, considering the present circumstances, Stratfor was trying to get into what it called the leak-focused “gravy train” that sprung up after WikiLeaks’ Afghanistan disclosures&nbsp;</b>:&nbsp;“[Is it] possible for us to get some of that ’leak-focused’ gravy train&nbsp;? This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. And we have something to offer that the IT security companies don’t, mainly our focus on counter-intelligence and surveillance that Fred and Stick know better than anyone on the planet… Could we develop some ideas and procedures on the idea of ´leak-focused’ network security that focuses on preventing one’s own employees from leaking sensitive information… In fact, I’m not so sure this is an IT problem that requires an IT solution.”</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stratfor gave a complimentary membership to the controversial Pakistan general Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, who, according to US diplomatic cables, planned an IED attack on international forces in Afghanistan in 2006. Readers will discover Stratfor’s internal email classification system that codes correspondence according to categories such as ’alpha’, ’tactical’ and ’secure’. The correspondence also contains code names for people of particular interest such as ’Hizzies’ (members of Hezbollah), or ’</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Adogg’ (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad).</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists – from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s “Confederation Partners”, whom Stratfor internally referred to as its “Confed Fuck House” are included in the release. While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.[note no cite]</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It should be noted that Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security, is a former Deputy Chief of the Department of State’s (DoS) counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In early 2011, </b>Burton revealed in internal Stratfor correspondence that a secret Grand Jury had already issued a<b> sealed indictment for Assange: </b>“Not for Pub — We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect.”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/375123_fw-ct-assange-manning-link-not-key-to-wikileaks-case-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(375123)</a>&nbsp;According to Burton: “Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He’ll be eating cat food forever.”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1056988_re-wikileaks-is-attacking-us-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(1056988)</a>&nbsp;A few weeks earlier, following Julian Assange’s release from a London jail, where he had been remanded as a result of a Swedish prosecutor’s arrest warrant, Fred Burton told SkyNews: “extradition [to the US is] more and more likely”.&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/373862_assange-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(373862)</a>.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Emails from Fred Burton reveal that the US Government employs the same counterterrorism strategy against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as against Al Qaeda: “Take down the money. Go after his infrastructure. The tools we are using to nail and de-construct Wiki are the same tools used to dismantle and track aQ [Al Qaeda]. Thank Cheney & 43 [former US President George W. Bush]. Big Brother owns his liberal terrorist arse.”&nbsp;</span><a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1067796_re-use-me-re-discussion-assange-arrested-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(1067796)</a></font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ten days after the CIA reportedly assassinated Osama bin Laden, Burton writes in an email sent to Stratfor’s “Secure” mailing list that he “can get access to the materials seized from the OBL [Osama bin Laden] safe house.”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1660854_obl-take-quick-response-needed-.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">(1660854)</a></font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Burton states: “Ferreting out [Julian Assange’s] confederates is also key. Find out what other disgruntled rogues inside the tent or outside [sic]. Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years. But, seize everything he and his family own, to include every person linked to Wiki.</span>”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1056763_re-discussion-assange-arrested-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(1056763)</a>.</font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burton also says he “would pursue [c]onspiracy and [p]olitical [t]errorism charges and declassify the death of a source someone which [he] could link to Wiki”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1074383_re-discussion-assange-arrested-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(1074383)</a>. Burton’s strategy is to: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“[b]ankrupt the arsehole first,” Burton states, “ruin his life. Give him 7-12 yrs for conspiracy.</span>”<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1057220_re-discussion-assange-arrested-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(1057220)</a></font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">As early as June 2010, after the release of the Collateral Murder video but prior to the Afghan War Diaries release, the&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Stratfor&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">emails talk of a sealed indictment. In an email conversation between Shane Harris, a National Security journalist, and Burton, Harris is surprised that Assange was reporteded to be attending a Las Vegas Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference. Burton remarks: “As a foreign national, we could revoke [Julian Assange’s] travel status and deport</span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Could also be taken into custody as a material witness. We COULD have a sealed indictment and lock him up. Depends upon how far along the military case is”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/391504_re-wikileaks-founder-currently-in-the-u-s-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(391504)</a>. Julian Assange cancelled his appearance at the IRE conference due to security concerns.</span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another email to Stephen Feldhaus, Stratfor legal counsel, about <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ronald Kessler, a “pro-FBI journalist”</span>, Burton remarks: “I look forward to Manning and Assange facing a bajillion-thousand counts [of espionage].”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1035283_re-fwd-wikileaks-prosecution-faces-hurdles-.html" style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">(1035283)</a></font></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Three days before Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning arrived at Quantico Brig, Burton wrote to George Friedman, Stratfor CEO and founder: “We probably asked the ASIS [Australian Secret Intelligence Service] to monitor Wiki coms and email, after the soldier from Potomac was nabbed. So, it’s reasonable to assume we probably already know who has done it. The delay could be figuring out how to declassify and use the Aussie intel on Wiki… The owner </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[Julian Assange] is a peacenik. He needs his head dunked in a full toilet bowl at Gitmo.”</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also:&nbsp;<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/</a>&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">and&nbsp;</span></span><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html</a></span></span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">--</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CUBIC</span></font></p><div id="post-375" class="post-375 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-intelligence tag-abraxas tag-barrett-brown tag-cubic-corporation tag-hbgary tag-ntrepid tag-stratfor tag-trapwire" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 21px; background: transparent;">---</h2><div><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">US journalist Barrett Brown is to be sentenced on December 16th for his part in researching and exposing the inner workings of some of the leading but very secretive private security and intelligence firms that few American know about and if they did would be shocked at what they would find. Brown’s supporters still hope that the judge in his trial will order his release as an act of clemency given he has already served two years in prison. That the prosecution of Brown is political has never been in doubt. Fortunately much of his work is still available for anyone to see. Below, is a reprise of that work: summarised and adapted from the excellent&nbsp;<a href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">ProjectPM website</a>, it provides a glimpse into five US private intelligence/security companies.</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">1. Abraxas</strong>
<a href="http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?ABRAXAS_COMPANY" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Abraxas</a>&nbsp;is an intelligence contractor that was revealed as a significant player in&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Persona_Management" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Persona Management</a>&nbsp;(i.e fake IDs to snoop on political activists or create propaganda). Abraxas also acquired&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Anonymizer" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Anonymizer</a>&nbsp;(which includes encrypted email services) in May 2008. Two years later Abraxas was purchased by Cubic (see below) for $124 million in cash.<span id="more-375" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">2. Trapwire</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Abraxas Corporation also created&nbsp;<a href="https://trapwire.net/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">TrapWire</a>&nbsp;under its subsidiary Abraxas Applications. TrapWire is/was linked to the&nbsp;<a href="http://nsi.ncirc.gov/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">National Suspicious Activity Reporting (NSI) Initiative</a>, a program designed to help aggregate reports of suspicious activity around the country. It was claimed that TrapWire could eventually extend to fusion centers around the USA as<a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg71298/html/CHRG-112hhrg71298.htm" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">congressional testimony from June 2011</a>&nbsp;indicated that the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department was part of a trial project of the Department of Homeland Security to test the use of TrapWire.&nbsp; The Texas Department of Public Safety, which operates the Texas Fusion Center, also&nbsp;<a href="http://wl.wikileaks-press.org/gifiles/docs/380450_re-close-hold-.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">purchased TrapWire software in 2010</a>. For more on Trapwire, click&nbsp;<a href="https://storify.com/bendoernberg/test-post" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">here</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">3. Ntrepid</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><a href="http://www.ntrepidcorp.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Ntrepid</a>&nbsp;also provides Persona Management services to US and unspecified “multinational forces” in conjunction with the&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/CENTCOM" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">CENTCOM</a>&nbsp;information operations program&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Operation Earnest Voice</a>. The technology is supposedly for use with non-US forums and social media outlets, thus circumventing US laws against impersonation. Ntrepid’s corporate registry lists Abraxas’ previous CEO and founder, Richard Helms, as the director and officer, along with Wesley Husted, the former CFO, who is also an Ntrepid officer. The shifting company names and management led to speculation that Ntrepid is a front company for Abraxas.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">4. Cubic Corporation</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><a href="http://www.cubic.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Cubic</a>&nbsp;is a global leader in defense, and transportation systems and services and an emerging supplier of smart card and RFID solutions.&nbsp;<a href="http://i.imgur.com/yuOt5.jpg" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">This picture</a>&nbsp;provides an idea of the relationships between Cubic Corp, other companies, and individuals. There was also controversy about a global surveillance system called<a href="http://www.trapwire.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">&nbsp;Trapwire</a>. Despite&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" title="Cubic" href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Cubic</a>‘s denial of affiliation with Trapwire,&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" title="Abraxas" href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Abraxas" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Abraxas</a>&nbsp;Corporation subsidiary Abraxas Dauntless shares an interlocking directorate, including&nbsp;<a class="new" title="Richard Hollis Helms (page does not exist)" href="http://echelon2.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Hollis_Helms&action=edit&redlink=1" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Richard Hollis Helms,</a>&nbsp;with both TrapWire and&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" title="Ntrepid" href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Ntrepid" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Ntrepid</a>at least as recently as 2012 and appears to have done so continuously since its merger with<a class="mw-redirect" title="Cubic" href="http://echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Cubic</a>. For more on Trapwire, click&nbsp;<a href="http://publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">here</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">5. HBGary</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">HBGary Federal was set up with Aaron Barr as CEO to provide services and tools to the US Government that might require security clearance. In February of 2011,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hbgary.com/" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">HBGary</a>&nbsp;and HBGary Federal were raided by several Anons, who released over 70,000 e-mails acquired from their shared server. A subsequent review of those materials by journalists and activists revealed that the firm partnered with&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Palantir" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Palantir</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Berico" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Berico</a>&nbsp;to provide information operation services to prospective clients under a partnership known as&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Team_Themis" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Team Themis</a>. Evidence of persona management and its use by CENTCOM was discovered via these e-mails, as also a complex US military surveillance and propaganda apparatus – referred to as&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Romas/COIN" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Romas/COIN</a>. See also&nbsp;<a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/the-ridiculous-plan-to-attack-wikileaks.ars" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">Spy games: Inside the convoluted plot to bring down WikiLeaks.</a></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Note: for an excellent (2013) on the persecution of Barrett Brown, see:<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/21/barrett-brown-persecution-anonymous" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/21/barrett-brown-persecution-anonymous</a></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">See also:&nbsp;<a href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/barrett-brown-the-journalist-imprisoned-for-being-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: transparent;">https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/barrett-brown-the-journalist-imprisoned-for-being-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time/</a></p></div><div></div><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 21px; background: transparent;"><a href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/sentencing-of-barrett-brown-on-horizon/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">Sentencing of Barrett Brown on&nbsp;horizon</a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); font-size: 12px; background: transparent;"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Posted on</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/sentencing-of-barrett-brown-on-horizon/" title="11:24 am" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background: transparent;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">23 October, 2014</span></a><span class="by-author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); position: absolute !important; background: transparent;"><span class="sep" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">by</span>&nbsp;<span class="author vcard" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a class="url fn n" href="https://undercoverinfo.wordpress.com/author/coburg1/" title="View all posts by Undercover1" rel="author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); background: transparent;">Undercover1</a></span></span></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 12px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; background: transparent;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Journalist Barrett Brown is a victim of US legal overreach and has been prosecuted&nbsp;</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">merely for investigating private companies involved in dubious espionage activities. In less than four weeks time, on November 24th, he is due to be sentenced. 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</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">part one of an exclusive Mint Press News investigation into the story of Stratfor. Don’t miss&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/stratfor-strategies-how-to-win-the-media-war-against-grassroots-activists/166078/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">part 2</a>.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Christmas Day 2011, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Anonymous-LulzSec-Insurgency/dp/0316213527" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">hacktivist collective Anonymous</a>&nbsp;ruined the day for a security firm that, throughout much of its history, enjoyed operating in the shadows.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The firm:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stratfor.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Strategic Forecasting, Inc</a>., an Austin, Texas-based intelligence-collecting contracting company better known as Stratfor. Its&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5940_gv-master-client-list-15-march-07-.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">clients include some of the most profitable multinational corporations</a>&nbsp;on the planet, such as the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Petroleum Institute, Archer Daniels Midland, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Northrop Grumman, Intel and Coca-Cola.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">404 &nbsp;</span><font face="Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px;">https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5940_gv-master-client-list-15-march-07-.html</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/anonymous-hackers-target-us-security-think-tank-190846242.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Anonymous hacked into the content management system of Stratfor’s computer system</a>, eventually&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/wikileaks-stratfor-emails-published_n_1303238.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">handing over 5.2 million emails and accompanying attachments</a>&nbsp;to WikiLeaks, which coined the database the “<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Global Intelligence Files</a>.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Working through an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/sabu-fbi-anonymous-hacker-informant" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">informant named “Sabu,”</a>&nbsp;who posed as a fellow “comrade,” federal officials tracked down the hacktivist responsible for the leak, Chicago’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-jeremy-hammond-enemy-of-the-state-20121207" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Jeremy Hammond</a>, just three months later.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">In March 2012,&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-06/business/chi-chicago-raid-linked-to-hacking-arrests-20120306_1_cyber-attack-lulzsec-antisec" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">the FBI raided Hammond’s apartment and handed him charges</a>. After more than a year of sitting in the Manhattan Correctional Center,&nbsp;<a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/28/jeremy-hammond-pleads-guilty-to-being-involved-in-the-stratfor-leak/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Hammond eventually settled out of court</a>&nbsp;in May 2013. He pleaded guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and his sentence will be handed down on Sept. 6. He may serve up to 10 years in prison.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Stratfor’s precursor, Pagan International, built the corporate public relations playbook still utilized by the firm today.</b></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The goal of a corporate PR plan “must be to separate the fanatic activist leaders … from the overwhelming majority of their followers: decent, concerned people who are willing to judge us on the basis of our openness and usefulness,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1982/09/bartimole.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Pagan stated in 1982</a>, fully understanding that the public should never know this was the game plan. &nbsp;http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1982/09/bartimole.html</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hammond — perhaps without knowing every detail of the history of the playbook itself — essentially cited it as the rationale behind his Stratfor hack and leak to WikiLeaks.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I believe in the power of the truth. In keeping with that, I do not want to hide what I did or to shy away from my actions,” he&nbsp;<a href="http://freejeremy.net/press-release/statement-from-jeremy-regarding-his-plea/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">stated in a press release announcing the plea deal</a>. “I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind closed doors.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">In this investigation, Mint Press examines Stratfor’s rise to power and its use of the “divide and conquer” philosophy to take on some of the largest boycott movements against multinational corporations.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p><h3 dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">‘Divide and conquer’</span></h3><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">
</span></div><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The story of Stratfor begins with a short-lived but deeply influential firm called&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pagan_International" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Pagan International</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">If there’s a short description of the modus operandi of Stratfor’s predecessors, military-like “divide and conquer” perceptions management — or rough-and-tumble public relations — is it.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That’s not by accident. Two of Pagan’s co-founders started their careers doing covert work for the U.S. military.&nbsp;<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/7153:fracking-and-psychological-operations-empire-comes-home" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Modern public relations got its start in military psychological operations</a>, or psy-ops. “Divide and conquer” is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-divide-and-rule--americas-plan-for-baghdad-444178.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">one of the tenets laid out in the “U.S. Counterinsurgency Field Manual.</a></span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-divide-and-rule--americas-plan-for-baghdad-444178.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">”</a></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pagan International was named after <b>Rafael D. Pagan Jr</b>., who joined the U.S. Army in 1951 and spent two decades doing upper-level military intelligence work. He used it as a launching point into the corporate PR world.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“A former Army intelligence officer, the Potomac resident briefed Presidents Kennedy and Johnson on the Soviet bloc’s military and economic capabilities. He advised Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush on policies promoting Third World social and economic development,”&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155215860/Rafael-Pagan-Obituary" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">explains his 1993 obituary in The </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155215860/Rafael-Pagan-Obituary" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Washington Times</a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Upon leaving the Pentagon, Pagan got three public relations jobs for corporations seeking markets for their products in the developing world.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Pagan began his international business career in 1970 as a senior executive in new business development with three major multinational companies, International Nickel of Canada (now Inco), Castle & Cooke </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">(now Dole), and Nestle,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155215860/Rafael-Pagan-Obituary" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">according to his obituary</a>. “He specialized in addressing conflicts for multinational companies seeking to invest and operate in Third World countries.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pagan followed in the footsteps of the father of modern public relations,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_rIdd69W8" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Edward Bernays</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who helped with the PR surrounding&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/9834" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">United Fruit Company’s work with the U.S. government to foment a coup in 1954 in Honduras</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://aad.archives.gov/aad/createpdf?rid=159399&dt=2476&dl=1345" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Pagan also did PR for Castle & Cooke in Honduras</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pagan’s experiences working in the Honduran “banana republic” under the U.S.-installed right-wing, corporate-friendly military dictatorship would suit him well for his the next step of his career: doing the PR bidding of multinational corporate behemoth Nestle.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p><h3 dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">The playbook in action for Nestle</span></h3><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">
</span></div><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Speaking at the April 1982 Public Affairs Council conference to his colleagues in the PR industry, Pagan revealed the skeleton of the playbook that would last all the way through the Stratfor days.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pagan International arose out of the ashes of a controversial</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Nestle public relations campaign named, in Orwellian fashion, the “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/06/magazine/the-controversy-over-infant-formula.html?scp=1821&sq=antibodies&st=nyt&pagewanted=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Nestle Coordination Center for Nutrition</a>.” It was co-run by Pagan and Jack Mongoven.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155264654/PR-Strategist-John-Mongoven-Dies" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Mongoven was once a reporter</a>&nbsp;for The Chicago Tribune</b> and served as an executive editor of Pioneer Newspapers before becoming a spokesman for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and then the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Republican National Committee.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nestle’s Coordination Center for Nutrition began in 1980 as a major public relations effort designed to fend off complaints and an eventual international boycott. Criticism of Nestle was spearheaded by the British group War on Want, which tracked the company’s marketing of powdered baby milk in the developing world in a 1974 investigation called&nbsp;<a href="http://www.waronwant.org/attachments/THE%20BABY%20KILLER%201974.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">“The Baby Killer.”</a></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nestle had decided the developing world would be a good place to sell its baby formula, despite the fact that the formula interrupted women’s lactation process and prevented their breasts from producing enough milk.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Women who were induced to use [the] formula in place of breast milk often had no choice but to dilute the formula with contaminated water, leading to diarrhea, dehydration and death among … infants,” explain </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton in their book, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Sludge-Good-For-You/dp/1567510604" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Toxic Sludge</a></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Sludge-Good-For-You/dp/1567510604" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"> Is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">This behavior by Nestle created a global uproar and eventually planted the seeds of a <b>boycott</b> by more than 700 churches and activist groups.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mongoven and Pagan — under the auspices of the Coordination Center for Nutrition, which&nbsp;<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xfl95b00/pdf?search=%22mr%20pagan%20daniel%20a%20milway%22" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">shared office space with The Tobacco Institute</a>, according to Legacy Tobacco Archive Library documents — decided the best response to the burgeoning social movement was to divide and conquer it.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of their first strategies was to peel off some of strongest supporters of the anti-Nestle campaign — educators.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Some of the boycott’s strongest support came from teachers, represented by the National Teachers Association, so NCCN courted support from American Federation of Teachers, a smaller, more conservative rival union,” wrote Stauber and Rampton.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nestle also won over an ally from the inside of another institutional opponent: churches.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“To counter the churches involved in the boycott, they needed to find a strong church that would take their side,” Stauber and Rampton further explained. “The </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">United Methodists</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> were supporting the boycott, but through negotiations and piecemeal concessions, Nestle gradually succeeded in winning them over.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To make amends, Nestle worked with the&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-17/business/fi-88_1_infant-formula" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Infant Formula Audit Commission</a>&nbsp;to ensure its global marketing practices were in line with World Health Organization rules. It was chaired by Edmund </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Muskie,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a former U.S. senator and U.S. secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The problem: Nestle created the commission, funded it and called all the shots. Few equipped with this knowledge were surprised when the commission concluded “the company has not been improperly ‘dumping’ baby formula on Third World hospitals,” as&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-17/business/fi-88_1_infant-formula" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">explained in The Los Angeles Times</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Muskie’s audit commission — or, better put, Nestle’s — is now seen as a “model” for corporations seeking to defuse sticky communication crises, as documented in a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1706252&show=pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">1986 article in the Journal for Business Strategy</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For his successful efforts running what&nbsp;<a href="http://dare.uva.nl/document/446098" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">he would later describe</a>&nbsp;as “a responsive, accurate corporate issue and trends warning system [with] analysis capability,” Pagan&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prsa.org/SearchResults/view/6BW-8611/0/The_Nestle_Case_Resolving_an_International_Public" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">received the Public Relations Society of America’s prestigious <b>Silver Anvil </b>Award</a>. Other industries have followed similar strategies, such as the shale gas industry’s “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/%E2%80%98energy-depth%E2%80%99-was-created-major-oil-and-gas-companies-according-industry-memo" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Energy in Depth</a>” and corporate education reform’s “<a href="http://dianeravitch.net/2012/06/14/stand-for-children-does-not-stand-for-public-education/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Stand for Children</a>.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p><h3 style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">Pagan International is born</span></h3><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hot off a major victory over advocacy groups nationwide and having learned much from the “war,” Pagan and Mongoven hopped off the Nestle gravy train and started their own firm in 1985: Pagan International.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The strong influence public and social issues today have on commercial operations has created a need for companies to evaluate carefully national and international policies affecting business,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” Pagan said in a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155245388/Pagan-International-Launch-Press-Release-May-1985" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">1985 press release announcing the firm’s launch</a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">That&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155245388/Pagan-International-Launch-Press-Release-May-1985" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">press release further boasted</a>&nbsp;of “an <b>international business socio-political database”</b> it had developed during the time of the Nestle battle royale, referring to its&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-05-10/business/8701290860_1_boycotts-rain-forest-animal-rights" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">short-lived International Barometer database and newsletter</a>&nbsp;and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> foreshadowing the database and newsletter Stratfor would market just over a decade late</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">r.[note VN technocratic body ct metrics, corp mgmt]</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“Pagan said that this system enables [the firm] to advise clients on national and international trends and movements that can adversely affect corporations,”</b> the press release further explains. “This gives the companies an opportunity to enter into public discussions and help define the parameters of the debate early on, rather than just react to agendas thrust upon them by activists and other groups.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Enjoying a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155238314/Ex-Nestle-firm-goes-bankrupt" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">client list during its brief lifetime that included</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dow Chemical, Novartis, Chevron and the government of Puerto Rico, Pagan International was hired by Royal Dutch Shell to fend off another international boycott for the company’s work with the apartheid regime in South Africa.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Activists demanded Shell stop doing business with South Africa until it was no longer an apartheid state, threatening a boycott if it failed to comply. Shell chose to continue “business as usual.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The resulting boycott served as a business opportunity for Pagan International, which stepped in and — as it did with Nestle — sought to divide and conquer the boycott movement. Shell hired Pagan and Mongoven to do so under a now-notorious&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155248143/South-Africa-U-S-Clergy-Group-Linked-to-Shell-Oil" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">268-page document called the “Neptune Strategy.”</a></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Neptune Strategy” was&nbsp;<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19871001&id=Ja9AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=7150,3890252" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">leaked to the press in 1987</a>, greatly embarrassing both Shell and Pagan International. Paralleling the Muskie audit commission, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pagan’s “Neptune Strategy” created an industry front group called the Coalition on Southern Africa —</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> which&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155248143/South-Africa-U-S-Clergy-Group-Linked-to-Shell-Oil" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">shared office space and a phone line with Pagan</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;— to divide boycott supporters into an overarching movement settling for weaker demands.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Pagan … proposed that Shell ‘develop a </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">task force’ </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">of South Africans,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> church </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">leaders, U.S. activists and executives that could issue a statement about the company’s role in helping South Africa’s blacks prepare for life after apartheid,”&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155248143/South-Africa-U-S-Clergy-Group-Linked-to-Shell-Oil" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">according to a 1987 piece appearing in Inter-Press Service</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. “And Pagan<b> singled out key black activists and church leaders</b> to help it carry out its plan.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CORE Pjt 21?!</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the “Neptune Strategy,” Pagan outlined a strategy that fit the familiar pattern: isolate and then conquer the “fanatic activist leaders.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“[P]ost-apartheid planning should deflect anti-apartheid groups attention away from the boycott and divestment efforts and direct their vision and efforts into productive channels,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-1988feb10-00012" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">explained the “Neptune Strategy.”</a></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Productive,” according to Pagan, is anything that would ensure Shell continues to produce high profit margins. After taking a beating by churches during the Nestle boycott, Pagan realized its bottom line hinged upon churches supporting Shell as it conducted business with apartheid South Africa.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“[M]obilized members of the religious communions provide a ‘critical mass’ of public opinion and economic leverage that should not be taken lightly,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/engineering-consent" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Pagan wrote in the “Neptune Strategy.</a>” “If they join the boycott and pressure for divestment, it will become a radically different and far more costly problem than it now is.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pagan International’s reputation soured after “Project Neptune” was revealed to the public and the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155238314/Ex-Nestle-firm-goes-bankrupt" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">firm lost the $800,000 of income</a>&nbsp;it was receiving through its contract with Shell. Pagan also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155238314/Ex-Nestle-firm-goes-bankrupt" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">lost other key clientele after “Neptune” was exposed</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1990, Pagan shut its doors for good and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155238314/Ex-Nestle-firm-goes-bankrupt" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">filed for bankruptcy</a>, opening the doors for ascendancy of the firm that would later merge into Stratfor: Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">This is part one of an exclusive Mint Press News investigation into the story of Stratfor; here’s the second part,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/stratfor-strategies-how-to-win-the-media-war-against-grassroots-activists/166078/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">“How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor’s Strategies.”</a></span></em></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">=</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">1st section of this is marked in main node:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">Part 2 takes a closer look at how Pagan International’s successor, Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin (MBD), revised and refined these strategies — and how what began as a corporate public-relations firm evolved into the private intelligence agency Stratfor, which wages information warfare against today’s activists and organizers.</em></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rafael Pagan — who died in 1993 — was not invited to be a part of his former associate’s new firm, <b>Mongoven, Biscoe & Duchin. </b>His tactic of conquering and dividing activist movements and isolating the “fanatic activist leaders” lived on, though, through his former business partner, Jack Mongoven.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mongoven teamed up with Alvin Biscoe and Ronald Duchin to create MBD in </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1988. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While “Biscoe appears to have been a largely silent partner at MBD,”&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Biscoe" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">according to the Center for Media and Democracy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Mongoven and Duchin played public-facing starring roles for the firm.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Duchin, like Pagan, had a military background. A graduate of the U.S. Army War College and “<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=1656229" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">one of the original members of [Army] DELTA</a>” — part of the broader&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/160332/jsoc-black-ops-force-took-down-bin-laden" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Joint Special Operations Command that killed Osama Bin Laden</a>&nbsp;— Duchin had jobs as a special assistant to the secretary of defense and as spokesman for Veterans for Foreign Wars prior to coming to Pagan.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Duchin served as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/charlese.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">head of the Pentagon’s news division</a>&nbsp;during “<a href="http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA402471" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Operation Eagle Claw</a>,” President Jimmy Carter’s failed 1980 mission to use special forces to capture the hostages held in Iran.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Referred to by The Atlantic as the “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/05/the-desert-one-debacle/304803/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Desert One Debacle</a>” in a story&nbsp;<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=37294" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Duchin served as a key confidential source for</a>&nbsp;— as revealed in an email in the “Global Intelligence Files” announcing Duchin’s 2010 death — “Eagle Claw” ended with eight U.S. troops dying, four wounded, one helicopter destroyed, and President Carter’s reputation in the tank. The failed and lethal mission served as the&nbsp;<a href="http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA402471" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">impetus for the creation of the U.S. Special Operations</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Largely avoiding the limelight while&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155260050/Duchin-Gets-Gig-at-Pagan-International" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">working as Pagan’s vice president for Issue management and strategy</a>&nbsp;— the brains of the operation — Duchin became a notorious figure among dedicated critical observers of the public relations industry while co-heading MBD. During MBD’s 15 years of existence, its clients included&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mongoven,Biscoe%26_Duchin#Tobacco_Industry" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Big Tobacco</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/11506" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">the chemical industry</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19970215&id=rPArAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1WkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4922,3993041" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Big Agriculture</a>&nbsp;and probably many other industries never identified due to MBD’s secretive nature.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">MBD worked on behalf of Big Tobacco to fend off any and all regulatory efforts aimed in its direction.&nbsp;<a href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/2/112.full.pdf+html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Philip Morris paid Jack Mongoven $85,000</a>&nbsp;for his intelligence-gathering prowess in 1993.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805008/pdf/0970419.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Get Government Off Our Back</a>,” an RJ Reynolds front group created in 1994 by MBD for the&nbsp;<a href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/2/112.full.pdf+html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">price of $14,000 per month</a>, serves as a case in point of the type of work MBD was hired to do by Big Tobacco.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The firm has developed initiatives for RJ Reynolds that advocate pro-tobacco goals through outside organizations; among other projects, the firm organized veterans organizations to oppose the workplace smoking regulation proposed by OSHA,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805008/?report=classic" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">explains a 2007 study appearing in the American Journal of Public Health</a>. “[It] was created to combat increasing numbers of proposed federal and state regulations on the use and sale of tobacco products.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paralleling the Koch Family Foundations-funded&nbsp;<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/americans-for-prosperity-found/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Americans for Prosperity</a>&nbsp;groups of today, “Get Government Off Our Back” held rallies nationwide in March 1995 as part of “<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/pso40d00/pdf?search=%22get%20government%20off%20our%20back%20regulatory%20revolt%20month%22" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Regulatory Revolt Month</a>.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Get Government Off Our Back”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805008/?report=classic" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">dovetailed perfectly</a>&nbsp;with the Republican Party’s 1994 “Contract with America” that&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.philly.com/1995-02-25/news/25705748_1_duck-hunters-new-rules-health-and-safety" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">froze new federal regulations</a>. The text of the “Contract” matched “Get Government Off Our Back” “nearly verbatim,” according to the American Journal of Public Health study.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p><h3 dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">‘Radicals, Idealists, Realists, Opportunists’</span></h3><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">
</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">While its client work was noteworthy, the formula Duchin created to divide and conquer activist movements — a regurgitation of what he learned while working under the mentorship of Rafael Pagan — has stood the test of time. It is still employed to this day by Stratfor.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Duchin replaced Pagan’s “fanatic activist leaders” with “radicals” and created a three-step formula to divide and conquer activists by breaking them up into four subtypes, as described in a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">1991 speech delivered to the </a><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">National Cattleman’s Association</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;titled, “Take an Activist Apart and What Do You Have? And How Do You Deal with Him/Her?”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px;">scan http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px;">
</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The subtypes: “radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists.”</b></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Radical activists “want to change the system; have underlying socio/political motives’ and see multinational corporations as ‘inherently evil,’”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">explained Duchin</a>. “These organizations do not trust the … federal, state and local governments to protect them and to safeguard the environment. They believe, rather, that individuals and local groups should have direct power over industry … I would categorize their principal aims … as social justice and political empowerment.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The “idealist” is easier to deal with, according to Duchin’s analysis.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“Idealists</b>…want a perfect world…Because of their intrinsic altruism, however, … [they] have a vulnerable point,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155326255/Ron-Duchin-Conquer-and-Divide-National-Cattleman-s-Association" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">he told the audience</a>. “If they can be shown that their position is in opposition to an industry … and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">cannot be ethically justified, they [will] change their position.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The two easiest subtypes to join the corporate side of the fight are the “realists” and the <b>“opportunists.</b>” By definition, an “opportunist” takes the opportunity to side with the powerful for career gain, Duchin explained, and has skin in the game for “visibility, power [and] followers.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The realist, by contrast, is more complex but the most important piece of the puzzle, says Duchin.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“<b>[Realists</b> are able to] live with trade-offs; willing to work within the system; not interested in radical change; pragmatic. The realists should always receive the highest priority in any strategy dealing with a public policy issue.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Duchin outlined a corresponding three-step strategy to “deal with” these four activist subtypes. First, isolate the radicals. Second, “cultivate” the idealists and “educate” them into becoming realists. And finally, co-opt the realists into agreeing with industry.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“If your industry can successfully bring about these relationships, the credibility of the radicals will be lost and opportunists can be counted on to share in the final policy solution,” Duchin outlined in closing his speech.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</p><h3 dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">Bringing the ‘Duchin Formula’ to Stratfor</span></h3><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">
</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Biscoe" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Alvin Biscoe passed away in 1998</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/155264654/PR-Strategist-John-Mongoven-Dies" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Jack Mongoven passed away in 2000</a>. Just a few years later, MBD — now only Ronald Duchin and Jack’s son, Bartholomew or “Bart” —&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012405821.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">merged with Stratfor in 2003</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">A book by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton — “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Us-Were-Experts-Manipulates/dp/1585421391" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Trust Us, We’re Experts!</a>” — explains that MBD promotional literature boasted that the firm kept “extensive files [on] forces for change [which] can often include activist and public interest groups, churches, unions and/or academia.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“A typical dossier includes an organization’s historical background, biographical information on key personnel, funding sources, organizational structure and affiliations, and a ‘characterization’ of the organization aimed at identifying potential ways to co-opt or marginalize the organization’s impact on public policy debates,” the authors proceeded to explain.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">MBD’s “extensive files” on “forces for change” soon would morph into Stratfor’s “Global Intelligence Files” after the merger.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">What’s clear in sifting through the “Global Intelligence Files” documents, which were obtained by WikiLeaks as a result of Jeremy Hammond’s December 2011 hack of Stratfor, is that it was a marriage made in heaven for MBD and Stratfor.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The “Duchin formula” has become a Stratfor mainstay, carried on by Bart Mongoven.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/24/AR2011012405821.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Duchin passed away in 2010</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/33/33714_Suncor%20Presentation-1210.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">December 2010 PowerPoint presentation</a>&nbsp;to the oil company Suncor on how best to “deal with” anti-Alberta tar sands activists, Bart Mongoven explains how to do so explicitly utilizing the “radicals, idealists, realists and opportunists” framework. In that presentation, he places the various environmental groups fighting against the tar sands in each category and concludes the presentation by explaining how Suncor can win the war against them.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bart Mongoven described the American Petroleum Institute as his “<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=414076" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">biggest client</a>” in a January 2010 email exchange, lending explanation to his interest in environmental and energy issues.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mongoven also appears to have realized something was off about Chesapeake Energy’s financial support for the Sierra Club</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, judging by November 2009&nbsp;<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=413210" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">email</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=404621" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">exchanges</a>. It took “idealists” in the environmental movement a full 2 ½ years to realize the same thing, after&nbsp;<a href="http://science.time.com/2012/02/02/exclusive-how-the-sierra-club-took-millions-from-the-natural-gas-industry-and-why-they-stopped/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Time magazine wrote a major investigation revealing the fiduciary relationship</a>&nbsp;between one of the biggest shale gas “fracking” companies in the U.S. and one of the country’s biggest environmental groups.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The clearest evidence of a financial relationship is the note in the Sierra Club 2008 annual report that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/secret/Ljl1l6QIa8sprn" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">American Clean Skies Foundation was a financial supporter that year</a>,”&nbsp;<a href="http://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=413210" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">wrote Mongoven in an email</a>&nbsp;to the National Manufacturing Association’s vice president of communications, Luke Popovich. “According to McClendon, American Clean Skies Foundation was created by Chesapeake and others in 2007.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bart Mongoven also used the “realist/idealist” paradigm to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stratfor.com/crucial_year_climate_change_legislation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">discuss <b>climate change </b>legislation’s chances for passage in a 2007 article</a>&nbsp;on Stratfor’s website.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Realists who support a strong federal regime are drawn to the idea that with most in industry calling for action on climate change, there is no time like the present,” Mongoven wrote. “Idealists, on the other hand, argue that with momentum on their side, there is little that industry could do in the face of a Democratic president and Congress, and therefore time is on the environmentalists’ side. The idealists argue that they have not gone this far only to pass a half-measure, particularly one that does not contain a hard carbon cap.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And how best to deal with “radicals” like Julian Assange, founder and executive director of WikiLeaks, and whistleblower Bradley Manning, who gave WikiLeaks the&nbsp;<a href="http://cablegatesearch.net/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">U.S. State Department diplomatic cables</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/irq/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Iraq</a>and&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/afg/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Afghanistan war logs</a>&nbsp;and the “<a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Collateral Murder</a>” video?</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Bart Mongoven has a simple solution to “isolate” them, as suggested by Duchin’s formula.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I’m in favor of using whatever trumped up charge is available to get [Assange] and his servers off the streets. And I’d feed that shit head soldier [Bradley Manning] to the first pack of wild dogs I could find,”&nbsp;<a href="http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/389793.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Mongoven wrote in one email exchange revealed by the “Global Intelligence Files</a>.” “Or perhaps just do to him whatever the Iranians are doing to our sources there.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Indeed, the use of<b> “trumped up charges” i</b>s often a way the U.S. government deals with radical activists, as demonstrated clearly during the days of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/Cointelpro.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Program</a>&nbsp;during the 1960s, as well as in modern-day Occupy movement-related cases in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-plot-against-occupy-20120926http://www.alternet.org/story/155581/has_the_fbi_launched_a_war_of_entrapment_against_the_occupy_movement" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Cleveland</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/17107-revealed-the-story-behind-the-nato-3-domestic-terrorism-arrests" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;">Chicago</a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;http://truth-out.org/news/item/17107-revealed-the-story-behind-the-nato-3-domestic-terrorism-arrests</p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px;">http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-plot-against-occupy-20120926</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px;">http://www.alternet.org/story/155581/has_the_fbi_launched_a_war_of_entrapment_against_the_occupy_movement</span></font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">‘Information economy’s equivalent of guns’</span></h3><div><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;">
</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">Just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, The Austin Chronicle published an article on Stratfor that posed the rhetorical question as its title, “<a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2001-09-14/82940/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Is Knowledge Power?</a>”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">The answer, simply put: yes.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“What Stratfor produces is the information economy’s equivalent of guns: knowledge about the world that can change the world, quickly and irrevocably,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2001-09-14/82940/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">wrote Michael Erard for The Chronicle</a>. “So if Stratfor succeeds, it’s because more individuals and corporations want access to information that helps them dissect an unstable world — and are willing to pay steady bucks for it.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">When it comes down to it, Stauber concurs with the “guns” metaphor and Duchin’s “war” metaphors.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Corporations wage war upon activists to ensure that corporate activities, power, profits and control are not diminished or significantly reformed,” said Stauber. “The burden is on the activists to make fundamental social change in a political environment where the corporate interests dominate both politically and through the corporate media.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Stauber </b>also believes activists have a steep learning curve and are currently being left in the dust by Pagan, MBD, Stratfor and others.</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The Pagan/MBD/Stratfor operatives are much more sophisticated about social change than the activists they oppose, they have limitless resources at their disposal, and their goal is relatively simple: make sure that ultimately the activists fail to win fundamental reforms,” he said. “Duchin and Mongoven were ruthless, and I think they were often amused by the naivete, egotism, antics and failures of activists they routinely fooled and defeated. Ultimately, this is war, and the best warriors will win.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">One thing’s for certain: Duchin’s legacy lives on through his “formula.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The 4-step formula is brilliant and has certainly proven itself effective in preventing the democratic reforms we need,” Stauber remarked, bringing us back to where we started in 1982 with Rafael Pagan’s remarks about isolating the “fanatic activist leaders.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16.625px; line-height: 26.6000003814697px; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 15px !important; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700; background: 0px 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: 0px 0px;">This article is the second part of a two-part series on Stratfor. Check out the first part, “<a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/divide-and-conquer-unpacking-stratfors-rise-to-power/165933/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background: 0px 0px;">Divide And Conquer: Unpacking Stratfor’s Rise To Power</a>.”</em></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">=</span></font></p><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">The&nbsp;<b>Coalition for Southern Africa</b>&nbsp;(COSA) was a front group created by the PR firm of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pagan_International" title="Pagan International" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pagan International</a>&nbsp;to help&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Oil" class="extiw" title="w:Shell Oil" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: none;">Shell Oil</a>&nbsp;counter a boycott against its business dealings in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apartheid" class="extiw" title="w:apartheid" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: none;">apartheid</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" class="extiw" title="w:South Africa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: none;">South Africa</a>. COSA and the Pagan International's 'Neptune Strategy' were unmasked in 1987.</p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">In the 1980s, Shell and other corporations that continued to do business in South Africa came under fire from protesters who pressured them to pull out of the country as part of a campaign against the country's racist apartheid system. Shell turned to Pagan International, owned by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rafael_Pagan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rafael Pagan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Rafael Pagan</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Mongoven" title="Jack Mongoven" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jack Mongoven</a>, who had previously advised the Nestlé corporation on strategies for neutralizing protests against Nestlé's infant-formula marketing practices in Third World countries.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Pagan International developed a plan, code-named the "Neptune Strategy," which became an embarrassment to Shell when a copy was leaked to the press in 1987. Instead of divesting its South African holdings, the Neptune Strategy advised Shell to "develop a task force" of South Africans, church leaders, US activists and executives to issue a statement about the company's role in helping South Africa prepare for life after apartheid and to develop "post-apartheid plans" that "will ensure the continuation and growth of the Shell companies in the United States and South Africa."</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">To implement this plan, Pagan International organized and subsidized COSA. Launched with great fanfare in September 1987, COSA was ostensibly an organization of black clergy, which talked of ambitious plans to develop black-black business links between South Africa and the United States, promote education and training of South African blacks, and pressure for an end to apartheid. In reality, COSA was a paper front group with no resources to carry out these goals. According to Donna Katzin, a leader in the Shell boycott, COSA reflected a deliberate attempt to "divide and weaken the position of the religious community with regard to South Africa." She noted that immediately after COSA was created, companies with South African operations began to point to COSA to show that not all US church groups backed disinvestment.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Public disclosure of the Neptune Strategy prompted Shell to cancel its account with Pagan International, and company revenues plunged, leading to its eventual bankruptcy. However, company principal&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jack_Mongoven" title="Jack Mongoven" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jack Mongoven</a>&nbsp;went on to to form his own firm,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mongoven,Biscoe_and_Duchin" title="Mongoven, Biscoe and Duchin" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mongoven, Biscoe and Duchin</a>, in partnership with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Duchin" title="Ronald Duchin" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ronald Duchin</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alvin_Biscoe" title="Alvin Biscoe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Alvin Biscoe</a>.</p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_Resources">Other Resources</span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Ex-Nestle Firm Goes Bankrupt,"&nbsp;<i>O'Dwyer's PR Services</i>, November 1990, p. 1.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Samantha Sparks, "South Africa: US Clergy Group Linked to Shell Oil,"&nbsp;<i>Inter Press Service</i>, October 7, 1987.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Categories</a>:&nbsp;<ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Front_groups_portal" title="Category:Front groups portal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Front groups portal</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:South_Africa" title="Category:South Africa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">South Africa</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Public_relations_case_studies" title="Category:Public relations case studies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Public relations case studies</a></li></ul></div></div><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"></span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">?WikiLeaks Is Back! With Millions of Global Intelligence E-mails</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WikiLeaks has released millions of e-mails from the global security think tank Stratfor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Greg MitchellTwitter FEBRUARY 27, 2012</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5:25 Good Mother Jones backgrounder on Stratfor and what the emails reveal about it (and its ambitions) so far. And David Corn now with piece raising question of whether Statfor got access to some materials seized in raid that killed bin Laden. &nbsp;Quotes from emails. &nbsp;Asks: "Has Stratfor, which maintains various contracts with the Defense Department and other federal agencies, penetrated the US intelligence establishment for its own benefit?:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5:15 &nbsp;Cole Stryker at Salon: &nbsp; WikiLeaks enters its "new phase" by partnering with Anonymous ushering in new era for "hacktivism." &nbsp;Excerpt: &nbsp;"This is huge; it’s the first time Anonymous has ever cooperated with an aboveground entity, lending an unprecedented amount of political legitimacy to the often inscrutable group. But why? What do these strange bedfellows have to gain from collaboration? With this new collaboration, Anonymous has obtained new credibility, and WikiLeaks has obtained a hugely valuable new source. This potentially powerful alliance could point to the future of the leak economy, and this awkward symbiosis provides each party with exactly what they need to move forward. A new age of transparency activism may have just begun."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4:10 &nbsp;Federal Judge: Halliburton may have set me up in double sex case.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3:15 InfoWorld headline: "Extremely Hacked and Incredibly Dense."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3:10 The Telegraph: &nbsp;Email finds Stratfor guy claiming Osama bin Laden was very much in steady contact wtih Pakistan spy agency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3:00 Talking Points Memo piece not impressed by news coming out of the emails so far. &nbsp;And Wired’s @DangerRoom feed joked: "Wow, these #Stratfor emails are really hot stuff. Next up: George Friedman’s coveted tapioca pudding recipe." That’s Friedman, at left.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1:40 Late last night several people of Twitter posted “news“ that the CEO of Stratfor had resigned, and linked to his email announcing such posted at Pastebin. Unlike many others I did not link to it or mention it here, as it looked suspect. Now Andy Greenberg at Forbes (he has followed WikiLeaks closely since 2010) writes that it is almost indeed a hoax. But who knows.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1:20 Words of warning from reliable Trevor Timm @WLLegal: “These emails read like STRATFOR is full of serial exaggerators & bullshit artists. Should we really trust any rumors in them w/o 2nd source?” He also points out: “SCOTUS cases saying publishing stolen info is OK under 1st Amd: Bartnicki v. Hopper, Landmark Communications v. VA, Florida Star v. BJF.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:45 Fleeting mentions suggest Israelis on the ground helped wreck Iran’s nuclear infrastructure some time ago. Who knows if credible.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:10 E-mail on the Mossad in Israel allegedly “contracting” or sub-contracting “hits” on Iranian physicists. etc…. WL Central with key links on the overall Stratfor release.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11:40 @OccupyWallStNYC asking folks to search the emails for OWS references—they’ve found only one not important one so far… The Atlantic Wire notes media partners this time much smaller than in past—but still wide group of twenty-five. Key is, what are they actually planning to do with the files? McClatchy, for example, quiet so far.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11:25 Dow, implicated re Bhopal activists, just released response: “Major companies, including Dow, are often required to take appropriate action to protect their people and safeguard their facilities around the world from those who would threaten, disrupt and misrepresent the company and its employees. Dow takes the obligations to ensure the safety of its people and facilities seriously and will continue to do so within the bounds of the law. We are strong proponents of free speech and encourage public debate on important issues. However, while we have not yet seen the specific documents in question, the theft of any private documents cannot be condoned.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10:40 Report on the Anonymous hack from this past December.</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10:25 Fun stuff here:<b> In email, Stratfor analyst quotes lengthy Forbes article by Andy Greenberg on companies post-WikiLeaks looking to pay to upgrade security, and comments: “I was wondering if it was possible for us to get some of that leak-focused’ gravy train.”</b> Now Stratfor itself victim of “leak,” or more likely, “hack.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:35 One summary of the WikiLeaks press conf today. I missed Assange comparing Stratfor to Enron. Refuses to name source.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:30 TV report from India and web story on Dow hiring Stratfor to spy on Bhopal activists, which emerged in e-mails last night…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:55 Glenn Greenwald tweets: “Why should WikiLeaks be responsible for how its source got materials? Are the NYT and other papers responsible for their source’s actions?” …As I noted last night: We now mark one-week anniversary of longtime Assange antagonist, Bill Keller of NYT, declaring WikiLeaks dead.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:50 WikiLeaks presser at Frontline Club, which just ended, being replayed below (see 7:30 entry)… McClatchy listed as media “partner” on Stratfor release but nothing major from them yet in coverage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:35 The Guardian, former WikiLeaks partner, covers new release… Notes that afterAnonymous did hack in December, the paper analyzed e-mail accounts at Stratfor and found there over 200 UK military named and 242 NATO officials.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>8:30 Stratfor exec Fred Burton (Fred’s Rule #2): “Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations”…</b> Assanage points out that giant problem for Stratfor is—it’s a “security” firm that allowed itself to get massively hacked… Claims Friedman, Stratfor’s CEO, talks about “sexual, psychological, and financial control” in one of his e-mails.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:15 Assange at press conference (see live feed below): a former Goldman director joined Stratfor and worked with Stratfor to make an investment fund while still at Goldman. Says does not know if any Goldman involvement at all.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7:55 Assange: Coca-Cola hired Stratfor to gather info on PETA activists… Assange says Stratfor newsletter goes to 300,000… Claims Reuters in a partner… Says found 4000 emails on WikiLeaks, embargoed now, will soon release.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7:30 Assange press conference at Frontline Club in London. Watch live:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7:25 Stratfor e-mails look at GOP candidates for president—and a certain “biilionaire” who funded Obama big who quickly grew disenchanted (Soros?).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:55 Anonymous (@AnonOps) tweets: “Goldman Sachs will be exposed in just a few hours. Stay tuned.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:45 This Stratfor “Glossary” is must reading. Samples: “ATF Alcohol Tobacco and Fire Arms. Rednecks with a license to kill. Never, ever, ever ask for their help on anything…. Brief the Times When the Briefer has obtained zero valuable intelligence from analysis, he finds something in the inside of the morning paper, powers up a view graph, and ‘Briefs the Times.’ Customers are frequently impressed. It’s a hoot…. Duplicitous little bastards Israeli Intelligence.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:30 Here’s Stratfor’s full statement on “illegal” released of the hacked e-mails. Claims some could be forged, some real, will comment on neither.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12:20 Andy Greenberg of Forbes, longtime WikIleaks watcher, takes look here, and explores Anonymous link.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">12:10 Another revealing e-mail about discussion with Israeli Defense Force source (among other things, guy is upset Obama “abandoned” Mubarak)… Jason Leopold tweeting out some good nuggets, here on Israelis and Hugo Chávez.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11:55 PM Interesting e-mails on Israel and iran and nuclear threat and Gaza and more.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>11:35 The YesMen weigh in with their take</b>. “The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs, also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. (Bhopal activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, that led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.)”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11:00 WikiLeaks posts long list of media orgs around world that gave Stratfor info.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10:45 And now e-mails written by Karl Rove.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:50 Fascinating e-mails on McCain deciding to not press fraud claims on election night 2008. And this: “Curiously, there are whispers of McCain being set up by the Cheney/Bush crowd, because McCain was never liked by either. Some are shocked he did so well. Coupled with serious errors in tactics. Some made no sense. For example, the Hispanics in Florida loved Palin but his camp would never send her there when easy money was to be had. My guy said Rove and company want to bring in someone they can control next go around. McCain was not controllable. Jeb Bush’s name is being discussed. Source advised Rick Davis was an arsehole and McCain’s econ team had no clue, trusting in academics vice business-people. “</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:30 It was just six days ago that NYT’s Bill Keller declared WikiLeaks dead… Follow @wikileaks feed for updates.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9:00 Claim of Wachovia laundering $70 billion in Mexican drug cartel money… Also, WikiLeaks has released names of media partners. No New York Times or Guardian this time (and no wonder), but McClatchy, Rolling Stone, The Yes Men, many abroad. WikiLeaks official feed tweets: “Over 25 media organizations working in silence for months ahead of tomorrow. How´s that for self discipline? Good work everyone”… Early e-mails re: Sweden draw claims of Assange getting back at government there.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8:30 We learned some time ago that the Stratfor emails were hacked, likely by folks associated with Anonymous, but no one knew that they would emerge tonight via long-dormant WikiLeaks. Now millions ready to be released. Here is the announcement on their site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now we have this report from Reuters, more to come, so stay tuned.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reuters: “The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said it would begin publishing more than five million emails on Monday from a US-based global security think tank, apparently obtained by hackers. In its latest high-profile disclosure, WikiLeaks said in a statement it had acquired access to a vast haul of internal and external correspondence of Strategic Forecasting Inc (Stratfor), based in Austin Texas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Stratfor describes itself as a subscription-based provider of geopolitical analysis with an intelligence-based approach to gathering information.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange told Reuters: ‘Here we have a private intelligence firm, relying on informants from the US government, foreign intelligence agencies with questionable reputations, and journalists. What is of grave concern is that the targets of this scrutiny are, among others, activist organisations fighting for a just cause.’</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Stratfor’s chief executive officer and founder, George Friedman warned on Jan. 11 that emails had been stolen but said the thieves would be hard pressed to find anything significant.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the WikiLeaks site: “The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The emails also expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients. For example, Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the ‘Yes Men’, for the US chemical giant Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. The disaster led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And more from WikiLeaks: “Like WikiLeaks’ diplomatic cables, much of the significance of the emails will be revealed over the coming weeks, as our coalition and the public search through them and discover connections. Readers will find that whereas large numbers of Stratfor’s subscribers and clients work in the US military and intelligence agencies, <b>Stratfor gave a complimentary membership to the controversial Pakistan general Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, who, according to US diplomatic cables, planned an IED attack on international forces in Afghanistan in 2006</b>. Readers will discover Stratfor’s internal email classification system that codes correspondence according to categories such as ’alpha’, ’tactical’ and ’secure’. The correspondence also contains code names for people of particular interest such as ’Izzies’ (members of Hezbollah), or ’Adogg’ (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists—from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s ‘Confederation Partners’, whom Stratfor internally referred to as its ‘Confed Fuck House’</b> are included in the release. While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoffs, including $1,200 a month paid to the informant “Geronimo,” handled by Stratfor’s Former State Department agent Fred <b>Burton.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greg Mitchell is the author of The Age of WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, and nearly a dozen other books, including the latest, Journeys With Beethoven.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREG MITCHELL TWITTER Greg Mitchell writes a daily blog for The Nation focusing on media, politics and culture. He is the former editor of Editor & Publisher and author of thirteen books. His latest book, on the 2012 Obama-Romney race, is Tricks, Lies, and Videotape. His other books include Atomic Cover-Up, The Campaign of the Century (winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize), two books related to WikiLeaks and a pair of books with Robert Jay Lifton on Hiroshima and the death penalty in America. His Twitter feed is @GregMitch and he can be reached at: &nbsp;epic1934@aol.com. &nbsp; His personal blog is Pressing Issues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example :</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The emails also expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients. For example, Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the "Yes Men", for the US chemical giant Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. The disaster led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. In August 2011, Stratfor CEO George Friedman confidentially told his employees : "We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I don’t plan to do the perp walk and I don’t want anyone here doing it either."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor’s use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS : "What<b> StratCap</b> will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like". The emails show that in 2011 Goldman Sach’s Morenz invested "substantially" more than $4million and joined Stratfor’s board of directors. Throughout 2011, a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent. But, confidentially, Friedman told StratFor staff : "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you if, for the sake of convenience, you think of it as another aspect of Stratfor and Shea as another executive in Stratfor... we are already working on mock portfolios and trades". StratCap is due to launch in 2012.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Stratfor emails reveal a company that cultivates close ties with US government agencies and employs former US government staff. It is preparing the 3-year Forecast for the Commandant of the <b>US Marine Corps,</b> and it trains US marines and "other government intelligence agencies" in "becoming government Stratfors"</span>. Stratfor’s Vice-President for Intelligence, Fred Burton, was formerly a special agent with the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and was their Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division. Despite the governmental ties, Stratfor and similar companies operate in complete secrecy with no political oversight or accountability. Stratfor claims that it operates "without ideology, agenda or national bias", yet the emails reveal private intelligence staff who align themselves closely with US government policies and channel tips to the Mossad – including through an information mule in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yossi Melman, who conspired with Guardian journalist David Leigh to secretly, and in violation of WikiLeaks’ contract with the Guardian, move WikiLeaks US diplomatic cables to Israel.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ironically, considering the present circumstances, Stratfor was trying to get into what it called the leak-focused "gravy train" that sprung up after WikiLeaks’ Afghanistan disclosures :&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[Is it] possible for us to get some of that ’leak-focused’ gravy train ? This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. And we have something to offer that the IT security companies don’t, mainly our focus on counter-intelligence and surveillance that Fred and Stick know better than anyone on the planet... Could we develop some ideas and procedures on the idea of ´leak-focused’ network security that focuses on preventing one’s own employees from leaking sensitive information... In fact, I’m not so sure this is an IT problem that requires an IT solution."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like WikiLeaks’ diplomatic cables, much of the significance of the emails will be revealed over the coming weeks, as our coalition and the public search through them and discover connections. Readers will find that whereas large numbers of Stratfor’s subscribers and clients work in the US military and intelligence agencies, Stratfor gave a complimentary membership to the controversial Pakistan general Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, who, according to US diplomatic cables, planned an IED attack on international forces in Afghanistan in 2006. Readers will discover Stratfor’s internal email classification system that codes correspondence according to categories such as ’alpha’, ’tactical’ and ’secure’. The correspondence also contains code names for people of particular interest such as ’Hizzies’ (members of Hezbollah), or ’Adogg’ (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists – from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s "Confederation Partners", whom Stratfor internally referred to as its "Confed Fuck House" are included in the release. While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoffs, including $1,200 a month paid to the informant "Geronimo" , handled by Stratfor’s Former State Department agent Fred Burton.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WikiLeaks has built an investigative partnership with more than 25 media organisations and activists to inform the public about this huge body of documents. The organisations were provided access to a sophisticated investigative database developed by WikiLeaks and together with WikiLeaks are conducting journalistic evaluations of these emails. Important revelations discovered using this system will appear in the media in the coming weeks, together with the gradual release of the source documents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hhmn</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wikileaks Strikes Again, Dumps Hacked Emails from Global Security Firm Stratfor</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike Riggs|Feb. 26, 2012 8:06 pm</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tomorrow morning 25 media organizations across the globe (including Rolling Stone and McClatchy here in America) will publish stories based on a massive cache of emails obtained by Wikileaks. According to a press release on the Wikileaks website, the emails are from the private security firm STRATFOR, which is based in Texas and does contract work for various federal agencies (including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense) as well as corporate espionage. Here's more from that press release:&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The emails also expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients. For example, Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the "Yes Men", for the US chemical giant Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. The disaster led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. In August 2011, Stratfor CEO George Friedman confidentially told his employees: "We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I don’t plan to do the perp walk and I don’t want anyone here doing it either."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Stratfor’s use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund</b>. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS: "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like". The emails show that in 2011 Goldman Sach’s Morenz invested "substantially" more than $4million and joined Stratfor’s board of directors. Throughout 2011, a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent. But, confidentially, Friedman told StratFor staff: "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you if, for the sake of convenience, you think of it as another aspect of Stratfor and Shea as another executive in Stratfor... we are already working on mock portfolios and trades". StratCap is due to launch in 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Stratfor emails reveal a company that cultivates close ties with US government agencies and employs former US government staff. It is preparing the 3-year Forecast for the Commandant of the US Marine Corps, and it trains US marines and "other government intelligence agencies" in "becoming government Stratfors". Stratfor’s Vice-President for Intelligence, Fred Burton, was formerly a special agent with the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and was their Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division. Despite the governmental ties, Stratfor and similar companies operate in complete secrecy with no political oversight or accountability. Stratfor claims that it operates "without ideology, agenda or national bias", yet the emails reveal private intelligence staff who align themselves closely with US government policies and channel tips to the Mossad – including through an information mule in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yossi Melman, who conspired with Guardian journalist David Leigh to secretly, and in violation of WikiLeaks’ contract with the Guardian, move WikiLeaks US diplomatic cables to Israel.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ironically, considering the present circumstances, Stratfor was trying to get into what it called the leak-focused "gravy train" that sprung up after WikiLeaks’ Afghanistan disclosures:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"[Is it] possible for us to get some of that ’leak-focused’ gravy train? This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. And we have something to offer that the IT security companies don’t, mainly our focus on counter-intelligence and surveillance that Fred and Stick know better than anyone on the planet... Could we develop some ideas and procedures on the idea of ´leak-focused’ network security that focuses on preventing one’s own employees from leaking sensitive information... In fact, I’m not so sure this is an IT problem that requires an IT solution."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like WikiLeaks’ diplomatic cables, much of the significance of the emails will be revealed over the coming weeks, as our coalition and the public search through them and discover connections. Readers will find that whereas large numbers of Stratfor’s subscribers and clients work in the US military and intelligence agencies, Stratfor gave a complimentary membership to the controversial Pakistan general Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, who, according to US diplomatic cables, planned an IED attack on international forces in Afghanistan in 2006. Readers will discover Stratfor’s internal email classification system that codes correspondence according to categories such as ’alpha’, ’tactical’ and ’secure’. The correspondence also contains code names for people of particular interest such as ’Izzies’ (members of Hezbollah), or ’Adogg’ (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists – from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s "Confederation Partners", whom Stratfor internally referred to as its "Confed Fuck House" are included in the release. While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STRATFOR recently made headlines when its servers were hacked by Anonymous.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for the value of the intel: Eamon Javers of ABC News and author of a book on corporate espionage tweets, "This stratfor stuff is incredible. There will be days and days of material out of this email dump by wikileaks." Meanwhile, The Atlantic's international editor Max Fisher tweets, "STRATFOR is a joke and so is wikileaks."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reason.tv on Wikileaks:&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/26/wikileaks-strikes-again-dumps-hacked-ema</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>