tuckfheman reblogged
The sentencing of the hacker-turned-federal informant known as “Sabu” has been mysteriously put on hold amid a rekindled crackdown on so-called computer criminals.
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“There’s a pretty clear case of entrapment, in terms of trying to get Jeremy Hammond,” attorney Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights told Democracy Now! recently. Ratner, who serves as a US counsel for anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, added that he suspects the government may have hoped to intertwine the whistleblower project into the case as well. In addition to the Stratfor files being sent to the government computer, they also made their way to WikiLeaks, where they have been continuously published.
