'The Other Bradley Manning' Faces Life for Intelligence Hack

December 27, 2012 from Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! takes a detailed look at the case of Jeremy Hammond, an activist facing a potential life sentence for allegedly hacking global intelligence firm Stratfor's computers and giving WikiLeaks millions of emails. A federal judge with ties to Stratfor has refused to step down from the case.

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Jeremy Hammond

Jeremy Hammond is a political activist from Chicago charged in a criminal complaint with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc.. He is the founder of the computer security training website HackThisSite, created in 2003 following his graduation... Explore this topic

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is an international, online, non-profit organisation which publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media from anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claimed a database of more than 1.2 million... Explore this topic

Stratfor

Strategic Forecasting, Inc., more commonly known as Stratfor, is a global intelligence company founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas by George Friedman who is the founder, chief intelligence officer, and CEO of the company. Fred Burton is Stratfor's Vice President of Intelligence. ... Explore this topic

Anonymous

Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It strongly opposes Internet censorship and su... Explore this topic

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Bradley Manning

Bradley Edward Manning is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website WikiLeaks. He was charged with a number of offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthor... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

Julian Assange

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist. He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes submissions of secret information, news leaks and classified media from anonymous news sources and whistleblowers.... Explore this topic

Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights is a non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City, U.S., co-founded in 1966 by William Kunstler and others. CCR has focused on civil liberties and human rights litigation and activism, as well as providing legal assistance ... Explore this topic

LulzSec

Lulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec, is a computer hacker group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offli... Explore this topic

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