[CIMC-work] FBI Search: Jeremy Hammond's Apartment
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What is the status of this story, and why has it been deleted from our
newswire?
christine
In a message dated 3/17/2005 11:30:33 AM Central Standard Time,
msszczep at uchicago.edu writes:
A peculiarly timed raid...
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9 FBI Agents entered the home of Jeremy Hammond and roomates with a search
warrant; taking _all_ computers, equipments, and everything related.
Thursday 6 AM March 17, 2005
There was a loud knock on the front door. I woke up and came downstairs. A
bald man flashed an FBI badge by the window and I recognized that it was
the same gentleman that had spoken to Jeremy Hammond. I opened the door
and a few of them stepped in. His name is Brian Brusokas. He said,
"Remember me? We met at the coffee shop"
Brian Brusokas and another FBI agent took out a notepad and asked if I
will give any statements because he claims that I have "minimal
involvement." I said that I will not give a statement until I am with a
lawyer. They did the same thing to our roommate, Christopher. I was not
present at the time of his questioning.
Earlier this summer two FBI agents had contacted Jeremy enquiring about
the speech that he gave at Defcon on electronic civil disobedience. And
for a few months after that, they would contact Jeremy and chat in the
coffee shop, the nature of the conversation was never disclosed to me. The
contact ended a few months prior to this search warrant.
They said they were looking for all electronic equipment that could have
been related to hacking. They started taking pictures with a digital
camera in every room, explaining that they will be doing the same thing
after they conducted the search. They teamed off and began searching
through the shelves, examining all pieces of evidence and taking notebooks
and scraps of papers.
They took our apartment lease, bank statements, notebooks and binders.
They took our computers (1 HP ?e vectra, Mac Tower, Back Mac Tower,
Packard Bell Force CPU, X-Box, and a E-book) PDA?s, hard drive, all four
CD cases, and memory cards. There is a receipt of what was taken and was
given to us along with the search warrants. They took a picture of that as
well, claiming that it is their evidence that they left the documents with
us.
They went upstairs and rummaged through my closet, bedroom, bathroom, and
backpack. They went through my back pack and took a picture of my English
paper on Computer Hackers in addition to our phone books.
They left around 9 am and I called Jeremy as his father?s place. They were
already there.
I believe this a scare tactic prior to March 19th Anniversary of US
invasion in Iraq. This happened to other activists before the Republican
National Convention as well.
Please be aware that all your conversations on the phone, AIM, and any
mobile devices can be tapped without notice.
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