[Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents

Tue Feb 15 17:49:50 PST 2011

I am denying knowledge of your denying knowledge about this.  And, you are
on double secret probation, Joe!

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm denying that I even read this.
>
> If I need to deny my own existence in order to stay "clean" I'll do it.
>
> "Then who wrote this?," you might ask. Exactly!
>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
> 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>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>
>> philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Dave < <tiedye at turbonet.com>tiedye at turbonet.com>
>> *Cc:* vision2020 < <vision2020 at moscow.com>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>
>> tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:
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>>   <http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/>
>> 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 <http://StopTheChamber.com>
>> 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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