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In response to Firedoglake’s release of Aaron Swartz’s FBI file Carl Malamud, a person named in the New York Times story referenced in the FBI file, went on to Boing Boing’s coverage of the story and posted a link to a PDF he prepared.
The PDF contains names superimposed over the official redactions made by the FBI, including Malamud’s name which was poorly veiled when the FBI redacted it within a block quote of a publicly available New York Times article within Swartz’s file.
These are not official disclosures they are Malamud’s stated views on the names that were redacted.
Note the name of the Times reporter and Mr. Malamud who was featured in the story and the censored quote.
Richard Davis of the Government Printing Office (GPO) played a leading role in the PACER affair.
Stephen Schultze was affiliated with the Berkman Center For Internet and Society at Harvard University at the time of the PACER case.
The role Amazon Inc. played in the situation is still unclear though it seems likely they gave the FBI access to user information – under what conditions are hard to know.
It is also worth noting where Mr. Malamud did not add his or any other name to the 4/15/2009 entry detailing a conversation between the FBI agent and a still unnamed person.
Given the rather mundane redactions the FBI seems to have made, questions remain over the FBI’s use of U.S.C Section 552 (b)(7)(F) the physically endangering other persons justification for not releasing the 22nd and 23rd pages of Swartz’s FBI file. More to come.
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thank you, DSW and Carl! it continues to astound me on how totally irrelevant to the pursuit of genuine criminals the Feebile Boys’ Institute has become.
it would be laughable IF they didn’t still retain the power to destroy lives with their covert ops, manufactured “evidence,” and “incitement plotting/enabling informants” against citizens that inconvenience their political masters.
Thanks for the update, and a tip of the hat to Carl Malamud, who, I’m sure, is very upset by what happened to Schwartz. I have heard Malamud speak, and I have great respect for him.
Keep us posted.
Does anyone know where a video of Larry Lessig’s speech yesterday, regarding Aaron’s law, can be found? I checked Harvard’s website and youtube and couldn’t find it.
The speech is bound to be well worth listening to.
“The role Amazon Inc. played in the situation is still unclear though it seems likely they gave the FBI access to user information – under what conditions are hard to know.”
A warrant issued by a magistrate or judge? Or did Amazon, like AT&T roll over like a dog and allow it to happen, unlike Quest, who said during the warrant less wire tapping, go pound sand, get a fucking warrant?
Lessig here…
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/an_incredible_soul_lawrence_lessig_remembers
Not the link you asked for but compelling none the less. Rot in hell Ortiz! Go after real criminals….
Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Tenet, Rummy….. Fabricating corporate connected fascists!
When leaders lie and fabricate to justify and initiate war, it is a crime. Instead we get Ortiz going after “good egg,” instead of going after spoiled rotten eggs, reeking like the stench of dead decomposing fascist taken out by a band of brothers, In defense of the republic and the world from fascist. America has been raped by our own, corporate fascists with no accountability, and obliterating “law” under the color of law!
The FBI redacted the name of the author of a New York Times article — but not the date the article was published, or the article’s title?
Um, what the hell? Has the FBI not advanced a jot since the days of Luddite Louis Freeh, who was too busy ordering fishing expeditions into Bill Clinton’s sock drawer to bother bringing the FBI into the 20th century, much less the 21st?
Really makes you wonder about those two pages they withheld.
I found Larry Lessig’s speech from last night, regarding Aaron’s law, if anyone is interested.