Assange: US prosecuting Barrett Brown for quoting assassination threats against me — RT News.
The charges against journalist and activist Barrett Brown, accused of threatening an FBI agent, are partially based on his quoting another person’s threat to assassinate the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange said.
Brown, 33, whose sentencing was delayed until January on Tuesday, faced federal charges including computer-related crimes, obstruction of justice and publicly threatening an FBI agent performing his duty. He’s now looking at up to eight years in prison for aiding hackers in breaching corporate computers, after pleading guilty in April to being an accessory.
The accusations stem from Brown’s sharing of a link to a trove of files hacked from the servers of HBGary Federal and Stratfor, security intelligence firms and government contractors, in 2012, his other involvements with ‘hacktivism’ groups, and his actions during and after an FBI raid on his apartment and the home of his mother in March 2012.
