[LucyT]

Double ping for some.

CIA Director Brennan Confirmed as Reporter Michael Hastings Next Target

Article, also see # 24.

Thanks for the pings.

[george76]

This is not the first contraversy for John Brennan. During the 2008 run up to the elections, it was announced that 0 passport information had been breached. It was later discovered that the breach was an employee of Brennan’s, while Brennan was working for candidate ...

http://www.examiner.com/article/michael-hastings-was-investigating-cia-chief-john-brennan

[maggief]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/13/what-story-was-michael-hastings-working-on-before-his-death/

Brennan was implicated in an alleged internal email from private intelligence firm Stratfor, published by Wikileaks, as the head of the federal government’s crackdown on investigative journalists when he served as the White House’ counter-terrorism adviser.

The email was obtained from a December 2011 hack against the firm by the hacktivist collective Anonymous.

While the CIA confirmed that Hastings was working on the story about Brennan, the agency denied allegations that he was hunting down investigative journalists.

One of the hackers allegedly involved in Stratfor hack, Jeremy Hammond, is currently facing a maximum sentence of up to a decade in federal prison and a $2.5 million fine, under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, for his role in the hack.

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Another interesting case ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392199/Aaron-Swartz-Secret-Service-Reddit-founder-Aaron-Swartz-surveillance-suicide.html

Secret Service had Reddit founder Aaron Swartz under surveillance before his suicide

Newly-released documents show the Secret Service searched Swartz’s home and research office at Harvard University
Swartz, 26, was facing trial on charges he hacked into a Massachusetts Institute of Technology archive of scholarly articles with the aim of making the articles free to the public
He hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment in January, before the start of the trial
His family called his death ‘the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach’

[combat_boots]

John the Muslim Brennan.

Surprised he didn’t have Hastings disemboweled first.

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My dear God I hate these people.