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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It was also in the Washington Post.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=rforce2003@yahoo.com href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=philosopher.joe@gmail.com
href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">Joe Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 16, 2011 7:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] US Chamber’s
Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political
Opponents</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,new york,times,serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It
showed up in the LA Times yesterday:<BR><SPAN><A
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chamber-20110215,0,2884792.story"
target=_blank>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-chamber-20110215,0,2884792.story</A></SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN><A
href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hbgary-20110216,0,7025879.story"
target=_blank>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hbgary-20110216,0,7025879.story</A></SPAN><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">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Ron Force <<A
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "<A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>" <<A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, February 15, 2011 5:05:57
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>Good point BUT do they not know because mainstream media won't print the
story? </DIV>
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<DIV>Or does mainstream media not print the story because no one cares?</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On Feb 13, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Ron Force <<A
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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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" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Dave <<A
href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com">tiedye@turbonet.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> vision2020 <<A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">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
ymailto="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com"></A><A
href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com">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 class=title><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"
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>
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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 class=moz-signature>-- <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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