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

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Tue Feb 15 19:33:59 PST 2011


Tom writes:

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life."

Are you referring to Rush Limbaugh?

w.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Darrell Keim ; Joe Campbell ; vision2020 ; Dave 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] US Chamber's Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions , Smear Chamber's Political Opponents


  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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