On 2/24/16, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/24/16, Douglas Lucas <[email protected]> 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.
