I am denying knowledge of your denying knowledge about this. And, you are on double secret probation, Joe!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Joe Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I'm denying that I even read this. </div><div><br></div><div>If I need to deny my own existence in order to stay "clean" I'll do it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>"Then who wrote this?," you might ask. Exactly!<br><br><br></div><div><br>On Feb 15, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Dave <<a href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com" target="_blank">tiedye@turbonet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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. <br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
<br>
On 02/15/2011 08:51 AM, Darrell Keim wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">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" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com" target="_blank">suehovey@moscow.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">
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<div style="font-family:'Calibri';color:rgb(21, 14, 0);font-size:14pt">
<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>
<div> </div>
<div><font size="4">Sue h. </font></div>
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<div style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(245, 245, 245)">
<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"></a><a 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>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div style="font-style:normal;display:inline;font-family:'Calibri';color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">
<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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<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
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<hr size="1">
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b>
Joe Campbell <<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><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"></a><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"></a><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"></a><a href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com" target="_blank">tiedye@turbonet.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/" 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>
<blockquote type="cite">
<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"></a><a href="http://StopTheChamber.com" 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>
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