On 2/24/16, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/24/16, Douglas Lucas <dal@riseup.net> wrote:
So here's my article on DeHart's sentencing yesterday:
https://revolution-news.com/anonymous-activist-matt-dehart-sentenced-to-7-5-...
this is wonderful reporting; thank you Douglas!
some links referenced are dead? unable to retrieve: https://mattdehart.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/227145011-Matt-DeHart-East...
the OIG report on mind-altering drugs used during interrogations is indeed informative! http://www.dodig.mil/foia/ERR/09-INTEL-13_Redacted.pdf
''' All seemed well until the morning of August 6, 2010, when the veteran, needing to process his student visa, crossed back into the United States. He handed over his passport at the border patrol office at the Calais, Maine port of entry and, according to an FBI report, was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for “questioning in an espionage matter.” That very day—timing too exact to be coincidental—Detective Kniss filed a criminal complaint against DeHart in Tennessee for the child porn investigation, nearly two whole years after the alleged conduct. FBI agents took DeHart from the border station to a windowless examination room. According to the veteran, he was pushed into what looked like a dentist’s chair and administered a forced IV that made him feel drugged—an interrogation technique practiced at Guantanamo. About 20 minutes later, he was taken to a conference area and interrogated by the FBI, his requests for a lawyer denied. Using the new child porn filing as leverage—DeHart says an agent told him the bureau knew he was not guilty in that matter—the FBI extracted a forced confession that interpreted the embassy visits as attempts to sell military secrets in an arrangement involving other soldiers from the Indiana base. In DeHart’s telling, he was also questioned about Anonymous and WikiLeaks. The agents ultimately arrested him on the child porn charges and deposited him in a Bangor jail, where he collapsed. An ambulance took him to Eastern Maine Medical Center; there a medical report was made that called him “paranoid and delusional with an idea of the FBI monitoring him and accusing him of espionage.” The ER personnel released DeHart into the FBI’s hands. Agents then interrogated him for two weeks without counsel present, interviews the FBI acknowledges but the reports for which remain classified. At one point, DeHart claims, he was hooded and tasered. The bureau also acquired his “consent” to take over his online aliases; the defendant would later warn through the National Post that “They are becoming you on the Internet—specifically for the purpose of going after Anonymous.” During one of his court appearances in this time frame, Judge Margaret Kravchuk raised questions about the case, calling it “odd,” but nevertheless ordered DeHart sent to Nashville for pre-trial detention. '''
- ... still at a loss for words
America, this is you. By not standing/ opposing, you acquiesce to the despotism, facilitating the perpetuation of such evil.