[Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions , Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Tue Feb 15 08:56:41 PST 2011
No need to wait for the movie any longer, V-peeps.
You can sit here and chat about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (a private,
NOT GOVERNMENT, entity) or you can visit their President and CEO at:
http://www.uschamber.com/about/board/thomas-j-donohue
While'you're there, look around, kick a few tires.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
On Tue, February 15, 2011 8:51 am, Darrell Keim wrote:
> I can't be certain, but I suspect they would tell you that they aren't
> members of the US Chamber. Not all Chambers are.
>
> They became members when I was there, but were looking at discontinuing.
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Sue Hovey <suehovey at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> I don’t know who the local Chamber president is now, but it might be
>> worth while to ask for a response.
>>
>> Sue h.
>>
>> *From:* Ron Force <rforce2003 at yahoo.com>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, February 13, 2011 4:55 PM
>> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To
>> Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
>>
>> The average working stiff never hears of it. Go to the news sites for
>> CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox--not a peep.
>>
>> Ron Force
>> Moscow Idaho USA
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com>
>> *Cc:* vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> *Sent:* Sun, February 13, 2011 6:12:59 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To
>> Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
>>
>> Can someone tell me why the average working stiff is unimpressed by this
>> sort of news?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/
>>
>> Anyone from the local chamber care to comment?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> EXCLUSIVE: US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions,
>> Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
>> <http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/>
>>
>> ThinkProgress has learned that a law firm representing the U.S. Chamber
>> of
>> Commerce, the big business trade association representing ExxonMobil,
>> AIG,
>> and other major international corporations, is working with set of
>> “private
>> security” companies and lobbying firms to undermine their political
>> opponents, including ThinkProgress, with a surreptitious sabotage
>> campaign.
>>
>> According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the Chamber hired the
>> lobbying firm Hunton and Williams. Hunton And Williams’ attorney Richard
>> Wyatt, who
>> once<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076.html>represented
>> Food Lion in its infamous lawsuit against ABC News, was
>> hired<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076.html>by
>> the Chamber in October of last year. To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and
>> his
>> associates<http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/johnwoodsagreeingthemis.PNG>,
>> John Woods and Bob Quackenboss, solicited a set of private security
>> firms —
>> HBGary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called
>> Team
>> Themis) — to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor
>> unions, in particular ThinkProgress, the labor coalition called Change
>> to
>> Win, the SEIU, US Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com.
>>
>> According to one
>> document<http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/ProposalForTheChamber.pdf>prepared
>> by Team Themis, the campaign included an entrapment project. The
>> proposal called for first creating a “false document, perhaps
>> highlighting
>> periodical financial information,” to give to a progressive group
>> opposing
>> the Chamber, and then to subsequently expose the document as a fake to
>> undermine the credibility of the Chamber’s opponents. In addition, the
>> group
>> proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to “generate communications”
>> with
>> Change to Win. View a screenshot below:
>> <screenshotfixed.jpg><http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/screenshotfixed.jpg>
>>
>> The security firms hoped to obtain
>> $200,000<http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/themisplan.pdf>for
>> initial background research, then charge up to $2
>> million
>> <http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/themisplan.pdf>for a
>> larger disinformation campaign against progressives. We don’t know if
>> the proposal was accepted after Phase 1 was completed.
>>
>> The e-mails ThinkProgress acquired are available widely on the web. They
>> were posted by members of
>> “Anonymous<http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks>,”
>> the hactivist community responsible for taking down websites for
>> oppressive
>> regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and American corporations that have censored
>> WikiLeaks. Anonymous published the emails from HBGary Federal because an
>> executive at the firm, Aaron Barr, was trying to take Anonymous down.
>> Barr
>> claimed<http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Cyberactivists-warned-arrest-ftimes-3487898538.html?x=0>that
>> he had penetrated Anonymous and was hoping to sell the data to Bank of
>> America and to federal authorities in the United States. In response,
>> members of Anonymous hacked into Barr’s email and published some
>> 40,000<http://gawker.com/#%215753570/anonymous-hackers-pay-back-fbi-snitch-with-50000-leaked-emails>company
>> e-mails.
>>
>> It is widely believed that Wikileaks has sensitive information about
>> Bank
>> of America, and plans to expose it later this year. This revelation
>> prompted
>> Bank of America to hire the law/lobbying firm Hunton and Williams, which
>> in
>> turn, according to the e-mails posted online by Anonymous, hired HBGary
>> Federal and other firms to go after Anonymous and supporters of
>> Wikileaks.
>> For instance, one proposal from HBGary Federal and its associates
>> proposed
>> targeting Salon reporter and Wikileaks-supporter Glenn Greenwald with
>> “actions
>> to
>> sabotage<http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/09/the-disinformation-campaign-bank-of-america-considered/>or
>> discredit” him.
>>
>> ThinkProgress has published a series of articles investigating the
>> Chamber
>> and its activities. We
>> exposed<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/24/stealth-chamber-banks/>the
>> Chamber’s efforts to coordinate a lobbying campaign on behalf of large
>> banks, including JP Morgan, to kill significant portions of financial
>> reform. In October, we
>> published<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/chamber-foreign-funded-media/>a
>> series
>> <http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/05/foreign-chamber-commerce/>looking
>> into the Chamber’s efforts to solicit donations from foreign
>> corporations for the same account the Chamber used to run partisan
>> attack
>> ads during the midterm campaign, as well as the Chamber’s
>> participation<http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/>in
>> secret fundraising meetings convened by the billionaire plutocrats David
>> and Charles Koch.
>>
>> ThinkProgress will be posting more details of the Chamber lobbyist
>> campaign
>> to target progressives soon.
>>
>> – With reporting from Scott Keyes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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