Prosecutors used the same legal strategy against Barrett Brown as they did me. Are you next? | Ladar Levison
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/30/prosecutors-same-legal-strategy-barrett-brown-lavabit-ladar-levison
While I can’t speak to Barrett’s case detail, he claims (and I believe) that the government made at least 41 false statements against him. During his pre-sentencing allocution, for instance, Barrett reminded the court that, at his bond hearing, a federal agent swore “that I have lived in the Middle East, a region I have never actually had the pleasure of visiting.”
It reminded me of a similar, easily disproven, statement made in my own case
(...) We were both singled out by the government for what they thought we could – and would – tell them about other people. When we resisted, they twisted our words, our actions and the law. The result has been a set of disturbing court decisions that may give the government the ability to selectively prosecute anyone they wish. This time it was a journalist. Next time it could be you.
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