[Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
Dave
tiedye at turbonet.com
Tue Feb 15 10:57:50 PST 2011
The US Chamber is now denying any knowledge of Team Themis' actions.
And the other two members of the now defunct team are also denying and
disavowing.
Dave
On 02/15/2011 08:51 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:rforce2003 at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 13, 2011 4:55 PM
> *To:* vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto: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
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> *From:* Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> <mailto:philosopher.joe at gmail.com>>
> *To:* Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com <mailto:tiedye at turbonet.com>>
> *Cc:* vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
>>> <http://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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