Questions for Matt DeHart case?

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Wed Feb 24 14:57:02 PST 2016


On 2/24/16, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/16, Douglas Lucas <dal at 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-years/
>
>
> 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-Eastern-Maine-Medical-Center-Emergency-Department-Report.pdf
>
>
> 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.




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