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Cornyn, who is almost always invisible and totally silent, doesn't GAF, it's pure politics.
Wow, John Cornyn comes to the defense of Aaron Swartz on the governments attack on the activist.
Cenk of TYT does a great story here discussing the details on Swartz doing a FOIA request on how they treated Bradley Manning...
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"Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) sent a sharply worded letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday questioning the Department of Justice's prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead of a suspected suicide last week after fighting federal hacking charges for two years...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down, including the link to Wikileaks.
The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/john-cornyn-eric-holder-aaron-swartz...
John Cornyn Criticizes Eric Holder Over Aaron Swartz's Death
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) sent a sharply worded letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday questioning the Department of Justice's prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who was found dead of a suspected suicide last week after fighting federal hacking charges for two years.
Cornyn wrote that he was "saddened" by Swartz's "tragic" death, and raised aggressive questions about the appropriateness of the federal case against him. The office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz charged Swartz, 26, with 13 felony counts for downloading millions of academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR. Although the scope of the simultaneous downloads violated JSTOR's terms of service agreement, Swartz had legal access to the articles through his JSTOR account. JSTOR did not press charges against Swartz and urged the prosecution to drop their case against him.
"As you are doubtless aware, Mr. Swartz was facing an aggressive prosecution by the Department of Justice when he took his own life," Cornyn wrote, saying that the fact Swartz would have faced decades in prison if convicted "raises important questions about prosecutorial conduct."
Cornyn, a staunch conservative, also praised the strength of Swartz's moral convictions. Swartz was a leading progressive political activist.
"Mr. Swartz was, among other things, a brilliant technologist and a committed activist for the causes in which he believed – including, notably, the freedom of information," Cornyn wrote.
Cornyn, the Senate minority whip, joins House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) in speaking out against the Swartz case. Issa has launched a probe into DOJ's handling of the affair, while Lofgren is pressing for legislation that would declassify terms of services violations as a crime. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) also issued a statement this week praising Swartz's character and life's work.
Read the full text of Cornyn's letter to Holder:
Cornyn, who is almost always invisible and totally silent, doesn't GAF, it's pure politics.
Maybe or maybe not on his end, but some of the factual details, and other points brought up here are still very valid, and very very disturbing.
I fully aware of the details, read many articles about the histories of the two crusading, career-padding, bullyng attorneys.
But
Cornyn doesn't GAF. It's the politics of distraction.
How could you post about this when Obama is killing babies?
New Questions for Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor, Whose Career Is Filled with Cases of Picking on the Weak
Ortiz, the politically ambitious U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, spearheaded the prosecution against Swartz. “Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar,” Ortiz proclaimed in a 2011 press release. Her point man in the case was Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann, a specialist in computer crime and son of Philip Heymann, the United States Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration. Stephen Heymann led the 2010 investigation into Albert Gonzalez, theTJX hacker, in the largest iden y fraud case in history. Heymann’s office suspected that one of the unindicted co-conspirators named in that criminal complaint—“JJ”—was Jonathan James, a juvenile hacker who also killed himself two weeks after his house was raided.
The details of the Swartz case are so suggestive of prosecutorial abuse that they have already led to widespread condemnation of Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann. However, what’s missing from much of the expressed outrage is recognition that the “bullying” tactics employed by Ms. Ortiz are standard operating procedure for federal prosecutors when pursuing criminal cases.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...eak?paging=off
Texas Tribune: Cornyn Wants More Drones
Oh snap
"Cornyn wants another drone, and stands poised to hold Huerta’s confirmation until Texas gets its way."
and and I'm sure he'll cut social safety net, medicare, medicaid, poor kid/women assistance to pay for it.
Was recently announced that border security already costs $19B/year.
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Sheep!Oh snap
I'm trying to figure out who I should assume is the hypocrite in this one . . . .
Holder should send a drone to Cornyn's office tbh.
drone lover crying about a mean prosecutor
almost as bad as drone lover Obama swearing to uphold the law on a bible
Ya'll are, tbh. When did I say I was a Coryn backer? Another case of desperate fools changing the subject from what was originally posted. lol This is about details of the Swartz case. But nice try
Someone ask him what details of the Swartz case he is talking about.Ya'll are, tbh. When did I say I was a Coryn backer? Another case of desperate fools changing the subject from what was originally posted. lol This is about details of the Swartz case. But nice try
Yes, I'm desperately trying to change the subject. You figured me out.Ya'll are, tbh. When did I say I was a Coryn backer? Another case of desperate fools changing the subject from what was originally posted. lol This is about details of the Swartz case. But nice try
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