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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 06:59 PM Feb 2017

Donors to Journo Barrett Browns Defense SUE DOJ

Long Island Press brings us news about donors to activist/ Journalist (and former Political Prisoner) Barrett Brown defense fund - suing the DOJ to protect their identities.

Specifically:


A federal complaint filed in California accuses the Department of Justice of trying to collect the names of anonymous donors to a legal defense fund for journalist Barrett Brown, who had been imprisoned for four years prior to his release in November.

The class-action suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California on Monday, claiming a United States Assistant Attorney and the FBI agent at the center of Brown’s 2012 arrest subpoenaed WePay, the host of a crowd-funded legal defense fund, for the identities of anonymous donors and the amounts they contributed.


Here's the link to the story

http://www.longislandpress.com/2017/02/09/donors-to-journalist-barrett-browns-defense-fund-sue-doj-fbi/


This is a link to the Anon remarks on Barrett's case

https://freeanons.org/welcome-home-barrett-brown/

Seems to me, the feds never intend, to leave Barrett alone.







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