Richard Clarke on Chamber Attack Plans: It's A Felony, They Should Go To Jail

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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March 25, 2011 12:00 PM
Richard Clarke on Chamber Attack Plans: It's A Felony, They Should Go To Jail
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By Susie Madrak

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Earlier this month, Richard Clarke, who served for both Democratic and Republican Presidents, including a stint as the cyber security czar for the Bush administration, denounced the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for plottingwith a group of military contractors to hack into progressive groups. Clarke was in DC speaking at a cyber security conference hosted by Symantec. Although Clarke focused his remarks about the growing threat of global cyber terrorism, ThinkProgress spoke to the longtime public servant about the ChamberLeaks story we originally broke.

According to documents first reported by ThinkProgress, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s attorneys began working with three military contractors — Berico, HB Gary, and Palantir — to come up with a proposal to discredit groups like ThinkProgress, the SEIU, StopTheChamber.com, MoveOn.org, and others. The tactics proposed included spying on families, using malware computer viruses to steal private information, using fake documents to embarrass liberals, and creating fake identities to infiltrate their targets.

Clarke denounced the scandal in no uncertain terms. Noting accurately that the Chamber “took foreign money in the last election,” a story also uncovered by ThinkProgress, Clarke said the Chamber’s attorneys had conspired to commit a “felony”:

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CLARKE: I think it’s a violation of 10USC. I think it’s a felony, and I think they should go to jail. You call them a large trade association, I call them a large political action group that took foreign money in the last election. But be that as it may, if you in the United States, if any American citizen anywhere in the world, because this is an extraterritorial law, so don’t think you can go to Bermuda and do it, if any American citizen anywhere in the world engages in unauthorized penetration, or identity theft, accessing a number through identity theft purposes, that’s a felony and if the Chamber of Commerce wants to try that, that’s fine with me because the FBI will be on their doorstep in a matter of hours.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. If all the criminals we've been giving a pass to were properly prosecuted

I think we'd have to turn several states into wall-to-wall prisons.

On edit: Not that it wouldn't be worth it!

[Vincardog]

2. KICK this reply

[WhoIsNumberNone]

14. Or we could release all those thousands who are locked up for possession

If we did that we'd have plenty of space for the real crooks.

[DeSwiss]

3. "They Should Go To Jail"

- The operative word here being "should."

K&R

[BlueJac]

4. Bookem' Dano........

throw the fuckers in jail

[SDuderstadt]

5. I could not...

agree with Clarke more.

[Enthusiast]

6. Clarke is right again. Imagine that..........nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Holder is a worthless piece of shit busting pot dispensaries

while letting all the major crimes go.... yeah that includes bush and his cronies, wall street, insurance companies
and the banksters.

Well, he's not a worthless piece of shit to those guys..... they love his shit.

[defendandprotect]

12. Agree with that -- any capable elected official, ready to work for the public, is tossed -- !!

[wildbilln864]

8. k&r! nt

[Lugnut]

9. K&R n/t

[90-percent]

10. Clarke and 9-11

Clarke was a hold over from the Clinton Admin. He repeatedly tried to get Condi Rice and others to convene a meeting about "the system glowing red". The GW Bush White House blew off Clarke and his urgent warnings. I think the first meeting was scheduled for Sept 12.

And we all know what happened on 9-11.

Years later somebody asked Dick Cheney why 9-11, and he said, referring to Richard Clarke's service in the GWB Administration:

"He sure messed that one up, didn't he?"

If I was Clarke and ever had occasion to cross paths with Cheney, I'd rips Dick's lungs out with my bare hands!

The gall. These guys get away with crimes and murders and torture. If Dick Cheney does it, it's not illegal.

-90% Jimmy

[rasputin1952]

17. With the GOP...

it is alwayssomeone else's fault. It is a party that is run by psychopaths, and the more psychopathic one is, the higher they move up in the hierarchy.

Cheney is so bad, he got the victim of a shooting by him to apologize for getting shot! I'm surprised he doesn't ride around in a vehicle adorned w/human skulls, the seats covered by "fine Corinthian Leather", said leather being made from the skins of Corinthian babies...:grr:

[The Wizard]

11. March them into the sea (NT)

[defendandprotect]

13. Chamber of Commerce proposals make clear they are a rw OUTLAW organization ...

yet one more rw organization getting their way by deception and crime --

[Avant Guardian]

15. Apparently 'outlaw' is the new norm for RW organizations behavior

Laws only apply to Democrats.

[RufusTFirefly]

16. Go ahead. We dare you!

That's what these right-wing thugs are saying repeatedly.
And you know what? They're getting away with it. Time and time again

Who says crime doesn't pay?
We have some "elder statesmen" who took office illegally, committed war crimes, and are now living off their ill-gotten gains.

Until someone restores the rule of law, these crimes will continue and grow increasingly more brazen. (If such a thing is possible.)