[Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions , Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Tue Feb 15 18:09:14 PST 2011
Darrell's right, Joe.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.
I mean . . .
Look what it's done for me so far.
And now . . . DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION! (whatever that is)
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
On Tue, February 15, 2011 5:49 pm, Darrell Keim wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *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:
>>>
>>> <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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