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.<div><br></div><div>They became members when I was there, but were looking at discontinuing. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Sue Hovey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">suehovey@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div><font size="4">I don’t know who the local Chamber president is now, but it
might be worth while to ask for a response.</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="rforce2003@yahoo.com" href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Ron Force</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 13, 2011 4:55 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers
To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents</div></div></div>
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">The
average working stiff never hears of it. Go to the news sites for CBS, ABC, NBC,
Fox--not a peep.<br>
<div> </div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Joe Campbell
<<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com" target="_blank">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Dave
<<a href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com" target="_blank">tiedye@turbonet.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b>
vision2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sun, February 13, 2011 6:12:59
PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] US
Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s
Political Opponents<br></font><br>
<div>Can someone tell me why the average working stiff is unimpressed by this
sort of news?<br><br><br></div>
<div><br>On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Dave <<a href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tiedye@turbonet.com</a>>
wrote:<br><br></div>
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<div><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/</a><br><br>Anyone
from the local chamber care to comment?<br><br>Dave<br><br>
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<h2><a title="Permanent link to 'EXCLUSIVE: US
Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions,
Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents'" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EXCLUSIVE: US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited
Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents </a></h2>
<p>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.
</p>
<p>According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the Chamber hired the
lobbying firm Hunton and Williams. Hunton And Williams’ attorney Richard
Wyatt, who <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">once</a> represented Food Lion in its infamous
lawsuit against ABC News, was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hired</a> by the Chamber in October of last year.
To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and his <a href="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/johnwoodsagreeingthemis.PNG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">associates</a>, 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 <a href="http://StopTheChamber.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StopTheChamber.com</a>. </p>
<p>According to one <a href="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/ProposalForTheChamber.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">document</a> 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: </p>
<center><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/screenshotfixed.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><screenshotfixed.jpg></a></center>
<p>The security firms hoped to obtain <a href="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/themisplan.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$200,000</a> for initial background research,
then charge up to <a href="http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/themisplan.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$2 million</a> for a larger disinformation
campaign against progressives. We don’t know if the proposal was accepted
after Phase 1 was completed.</p>
<p>The e-mails ThinkProgress acquired are available widely on the web. They
were posted by members of “<a href="http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anonymous</a>,” 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 <a href="http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Cyberactivists-warned-arrest-ftimes-3487898538.html?x=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">claimed</a> 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 <a href="http://gawker.com/#%215753570/anonymous-hackers-pay-back-fbi-snitch-with-50000-leaked-emails" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">40,000</a> company e-mails.</p>
<p>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 “<a href="http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/09/the-disinformation-campaign-bank-of-america-considered/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">actions to sabotage</a> or discredit” him. </p>
<p>ThinkProgress has published a series of articles investigating the
Chamber and its activities. We <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/24/stealth-chamber-banks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">exposed</a> 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 <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/chamber-foreign-funded-media/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">published</a> a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/05/foreign-chamber-commerce/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">series</a> 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 <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">participation</a> in secret fundraising meetings
convened by the billionaire plutocrats David and Charles Koch. </p>
<p>ThinkProgress will be posting more details of the Chamber lobbyist
campaign to target progressives soon.</p>
<p>– With reporting from Scott Keyes</p></blockquote><br><br><br><pre>-- <br>Windows, OSX, or Linux is the same choice as:<br>McDonald's, Burger King, or a (real) Co-Op.<br></pre></div></blockquote>
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