AP/Cook County Sheriff’s Office
Jeremy Hammond in a March 2012 booking photo from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Chicago.
This is an important post by Chris Hedges for Truthdig. I am reposting here with permission. It was first posted Nov 17, 2013.
NEW YORK—I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that works on behalf of the government, including the Department of Homeland Security, and corporations such as Dow Chemical. In 2011 Hammond, now 28, released to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications some 3 million emails from the Texas-based company Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor. Continue reading
Grace Ji-Sun Kim 