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[kpete]

Thu Mar 03, 2011 at 01:24 PM EST
Anonymous Will Avenge Manning
http://www.dailykos.com/news/Palantir
by barrettbrown

This diary will be updated throughout the day as events warrant. For now, I will note that several media will be running with the Palantir http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201109/6894/Themis-Questions-about-Palantir-surface-in-HBGary-Federal-s-aftermath story soon and that meanwhile we have provided relevant evidence to all comers. Much of that evidence is posted below. We ask that those who care about restoring decency and transparency to this crippled republic assist us in spreading the word about the crimes of those individuals - not just the "corporations," but the people themselves, many of whom are now scrambling away from the press.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/03/952165/-Anonymous-Will-Avenge-Manning

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Here's a fun little connection between Palantir and BoA's law firm, Hunton & Williams, which not only saw but clearly provided input into the proposal in direct contradiction to the lies that have been told to the opposite effect.
http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/...
http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/aaron_hbgary_com/439.html

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Speaking of that law firm, Mr. John Woods has failed to return our calls. And speaking of Mr. Woods, here's the info we're comfortable providing on him at this point.

High School: Lynnfield High School '86 (small)
BA: Colby College 1990
JD: University of Virginia 1995
Contribute approx. $250 in '08
Political Donations: Gave money to John McCain
Father owns Noland Company
Annual Revenue $100-$500M
A Runner. Member of GRIPLA.ORG (Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Law Association. Has a blackberry and has installed the Facebook app for blackberry.

That took ten minutes. We have more. We always have more.

We will return to destroying Palantir in just a bit; updates coming soon.

And just to anticipate objections:

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
Bradley must live.


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I knew something was coming re Palantir. However, I didn't know what. Now that you have explained how it is coming down, I question the wisdom of this:

a national television channel will be running with the Palantir story pursuant to an interview they did with us last week.

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GG article in Salon.com
Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011 05:16 ET
More facts emerge about the leaked smear campaigns
By Glenn Greenwald

So apparently, if Palantir's new version is to be believed, a 26-year-old engineer went off on his own and -- without any supervision or direction -- participated in the development of odious smear campaigns intended for two of the nation's deepest-pocket organizations (Bank of America and the Chamber), potential clients which the emails repeatedly emphasize would be very lucrative. I'll leave it to others to decide how credible that version is, but I will note that several facts undermine it:

http://www.salon.com/...


http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html

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Facebook Investor Peter Thiel: Palantir Is The Next Facebook Or Google
http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2011/02/28/facebook-investor-peter-thiel-palantir-is-the-next-facebook-or-google/

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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
By: emptywheel Thursday March 3, 2011 9:48 am

So if the government maintains that, by virtue of being an intelligence target, WikLeaks qualifies as an “enemy,” then they can also argue that Manning intentionally gave WikiLeaks information about how the government was targeting the organization. Which would make their aiding the enemy charge easy to prove.

But I also think that opens up the government to charges that it is criminalizing democracy.

As I noted above, the government’s own report on WikiLeaks describes its purpose to be increasing the accountability of democratic or corrupt governments. The government, by its own acknowledgment, knows that WikiLeaks’ intent is to support democracy. Furthermore, while the intelligence report reviews the debate about whether WikiLeaks constitutes protected free speech or criminal behavior (without taking a side in that debate), in a discussion of WikiLeaks’ efforts to verify an NGIC report on the battle of Fallujah, the report acknowledges that WikiLeaks did the kind of thing journalists do.

Wikileaks.org and some other news organizations did attempt to contact the NGIC personnel by e-mail or telephone to verify the information.

(snip)

Given the high visibility and publicity associated with publishing this classified report by Wikileaks.org, however, attempts to verify the information were prudent and show journalist responsibility to the newsworthiness or fair use of the classified document if they are investigated or challenged in court.

So while the military, according to its own report, describes WikiLeaks as a threat to the armed forces, it also acknowledges that WikiLeaks has behaved, at times, as a journalistic organization.

Mind you, all of this is simply a wildarsed guess about what the government may mean with its invocation of the “enemy.” But if I’m right, it would mean the government was threatening Manning with life in prison because he leaked information about the government’s surveillance of what it admits is an entity that engages in journalistic behavior.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/03/03/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/