Moreover, for USG going after journalists is a naked abandonment of any sense of first amendment protections.
It is wrong and the leadership should be ashamed. Period.
If this trend continues, I will turn in my SAR membership and my citizenship.
Somehow in many excessively publicized cases we've seen over the years it never was a problem for the government that everybody is talking about it. But when it comes to the surveillance case, suddenly there's an urgent need of protecting jury from being tainted. It smells as fishy as it gets. A complete and open abuse of power.
They should... had they any feelings. They do not, though, and the only two languages they speak is money and violence. If you cannot speak neither then they will run you over and you will be forgotten about.
Let's face it, even with all of the NSA spying and drone attacks... how many US citizens are _really_ up in arms? A minority. The majority will continue to care more about their mortgages or where to get their next 420 high than they do about anything the government and the government's owners are want to do to the populace.
Idiocracy was a documentary.
The system works!
The implication that a 'fair trial' is only possible when the public is ignorant is kind of insane in this scenario, where the government is obviously trying to silence detractors.
But no, let's throw out the First Amendment instead.
I'm pretty sure that 99% of the U.S. population isn't following this story at all, so finding a dozen jurors who have never heard of the case shouldn't be too difficult, even if the media were allowed to write about it without any limitations.
And when it's time to select the jury, I'm sure the prosecution will summarily reject any potential jurors who know anything about the internet (like what a URL is), since such a person could never be convinced that linking to a publicly available document is a crime.
The released documents included a list of email addresses and credit card numbers belonging to Stratfor subscribers. For posting that link, Brown is accused of disseminating stolen information – a charge with media commentators have warned criminalises the very act of linking."
You know. For your safety.
Meanwhile, it appears Project PM is limping along. The domain project-pm.org seems to be the new site, though it is down at the moment. It's a shame that the account creation page is disabled right now. There's plenty of work to be done cross referencing the NSA files with other releases. I think the most frustrating aspect of this whole debacle is how one-sided the entire scenario is. If you or I decided to develop some zero days for popular software and sell it to interested entities for millions of dollars per year in subscription fees, we'd be thrown in prison for years for violating numerous computer crime and copyright laws. Stick an LLC on the end of the organization and voila! Now you can break laws with impunity and even blessings from the military industrial complex. No trials for DMCA or CFAA violations. No prison time. Just lots and lots of money.
It sounds like the hackers of the world are doing it wrong.
Except this is now US reality.
