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RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his role in the spreading of cellphone messages that have embarrassed prosecutors and tarnished the image of an anti-corruption task force.
In a criminal complaint made public on Tuesday, prosecutors in the capital, Brasília, accused Mr. Greenwald of being part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of several prosecutors and other public officials last year.
Mr. Greenwald could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Intercept Brasil, a news organization Mr. Greenwald co-founded, has published several articles based on a trove of leaked messages he said he received last year.
In a 95-page criminal complaint, prosecutors say Mr. Greenwald did more than merely receive the hacked messages and oversee the publication of newsworthy information.
Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a “clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime.”
For instance, prosecutors contend that Mr. Greenwald encouraged the hackers to delete archives that had already been shared with The Intercept Brasil, in order to cover their tracks.
Prosecutors also say that Mr. Greenwald was communicating with the hackers while they were actively monitoring private chats on Telegram, a messaging app.
Mr. Greenwald moved to Brazil in 2005 after meeting David Miranda, a Brazilian man he later married and who became a federal congressman last year.
Mr. Greenwald became widely known for his role in the release of classified national security documents leaked by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. He co-founded The Intercept Brasil in 2016.
After The Intercept Brasil began publishing articles based on the leaked cellphone chats last June, Mr. Greenwald became a deeply polarizing figure in Brazil’s bitter political divide.
The articles raised questions about the integrity, professionalism and motives of key members of Brazil’s justice system — particularly of figures directly involved in the investigation of a vast corruption scheme that resulted in the imprisonment of powerful business and political figures.
Among the revelations in the articles, for instance, were chats in which Sérgio Moro, a former federal judge who handled the prosecution of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2017, provided strategic guidance to prosecutors, in violation of legal and ethical norms. Mr. Moro is now Brazil’s justice minister.
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On January 22 2020 01:49 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:Show nested quote +RIO DE JANEIRO — Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his role in the spreading of cellphone messages that have embarrassed prosecutors and tarnished the image of an anti-corruption task force.
In a criminal complaint made public on Tuesday, prosecutors in the capital, Brasília, accused Mr. Greenwald of being part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into the cellphones of several prosecutors and other public officials last year.
Mr. Greenwald could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Intercept Brasil, a news organization Mr. Greenwald co-founded, has published several articles based on a trove of leaked messages he said he received last year.
In a 95-page criminal complaint, prosecutors say Mr. Greenwald did more than merely receive the hacked messages and oversee the publication of newsworthy information.
Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a “clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime.”
For instance, prosecutors contend that Mr. Greenwald encouraged the hackers to delete archives that had already been shared with The Intercept Brasil, in order to cover their tracks.
Prosecutors also say that Mr. Greenwald was communicating with the hackers while they were actively monitoring private chats on Telegram, a messaging app.
Mr. Greenwald moved to Brazil in 2005 after meeting David Miranda, a Brazilian man he later married and who became a federal congressman last year.
Mr. Greenwald became widely known for his role in the release of classified national security documents leaked by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. He co-founded The Intercept Brasil in 2016.
After The Intercept Brasil began publishing articles based on the leaked cellphone chats last June, Mr. Greenwald became a deeply polarizing figure in Brazil’s bitter political divide.
The articles raised questions about the integrity, professionalism and motives of key members of Brazil’s justice system — particularly of figures directly involved in the investigation of a vast corruption scheme that resulted in the imprisonment of powerful business and political figures.
Among the revelations in the articles, for instance, were chats in which Sérgio Moro, a former federal judge who handled the prosecution of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2017, provided strategic guidance to prosecutors, in violation of legal and ethical norms. Mr. Moro is now Brazil’s justice minister. Source
He better move to a country that doesn't extradite to Brazil/the US or he's probably going to die in (or on the way to) a lifetime in prison.
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Patiently awaiting JimmiC dropping in to explain to us how Glenn should have just done his best to not do cyber crimes if he wanted to not get arrested by the Brazilian government.
User was warned for this post.
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On January 22 2020 07:05 rexxO wrote: Patiently awaiting JimmiC dropping in to explain to us how Glenn should have just done his best to not do cyber crimes if he wanted to not get arrested by the Brazilian government. Is it really necessary to namecheck another user out of the blue like this? What purpose does this post serve?
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On January 22 2020 07:05 rexxO wrote: Patiently awaiting JimmiC dropping in to explain to us how Glenn should have just done his best to not do cyber crimes if he wanted to not get arrested by the Brazilian government. Trying to get in the cool crowd with that post?
I'm against corruption whether it is Right or Leftwing. That is what separates me from the people who only point fingers at the other side. Feel free to look back on my comments when the actual story broke. For some reason some people seem to think if the left is corrupt then the right must not be or vice versa when the sad truth is both have the capabilities to be corrupt and right now many countries in SA accept it as long as it is from their side, because of course the other side would be worse.
You can also look at the story I posted about the corruption in Guatemala one page back, that is a rightwing person.
It would be a much better place if people stood against corruption itself instead of just against corruption from the other guys. I have no problem with whistle blowers and wish their was more of them, and they should release everything when they do it, so there is proper context.
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Extremely disturbing video on Venezuela situation. highest murder rate in the world over 1/3 carried about the FAES a paramilitary group Maduro Praises. And these people are getting killed in poorest neighborhoods and ghetto's. I guess there is a big cost savings when you just execute anyone you think might be a criminal and then others just because.
It is no wonder that the only countries supporting Maduro are other dictatorships.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/venezuela-worlds-highest-murder-rate-200123135543539.html
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Not really supporting Maduro, but Spain is at best ignoring Guaido and at worst undermining him. Pedro Sanchez refuses to meet him and recognize him as the legitimate president, like other european countries because a faction of his government supports Maduro ("Podemos" leaded by Pablo Iglesias). Dirty talk says they even got financing from Venezuela in the past, but I haven't researched enough on it to comment.
This has caused "VOX", Spain's most right wing party to hold a rally to support Guaido as legitimate president and Venezuela's freedom and democracy.
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On a side note if the United We Can party does not have the Beastie boys classic as their party's official anthem. They are missing out on a glorious opportunity.
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On January 22 2020 07:05 rexxO wrote: Patiently awaiting JimmiC dropping in to explain to us how Glenn should have just done his best to not do cyber crimes if he wanted to not get arrested by the Brazilian government.
User was warned for this post.
Means to an end.
This "anti-corruption" force is nothing but reaaaaaaaally bad meme that can be summarized with this image:
They are just attacking with all their resources what they consider (and can fool the lowest common denominator) "left-wing" to hide and detract attention from their mistakes.
The comedy increases as there are ex-reality shows participants, youtubers and bloggers who actually believe on fanfics that goes as far as saying that feminists killed more than the two World Wars and it goes downhill from there.
There are even meme Facebook pages who lists what was called communist (a lot of brazillians are living a Cold War on their heads), fast foods and even Netflix is involved xD.
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Election experts writing for WaPo have shown that OAS claims of election fraud are simply not supported by the statistical evidence and rely on unreliable assumptions, that if applied to US elections, would indicate massive election fraud.
... We and other scholars within the field reached out to the OAS for comment; the OAS did not respond.
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There isn’t statistical support for the claims of vote fraud
There is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find — the trends in the preliminary count, the lack of any big jump in support for Morales after the halt, and the size of Morales’s margin all appear legitimate. All in all, the OAS’s statistical analysis and conclusions would appear deeply flawed.
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It is certainly concerning that they disagree with the statistical findings. But it is odd that they don’t go into the most concerning parts about the report such as the info heading off to a unregistered server in Argentina, over 100% of people in certain areas all voting in one way and so on.
I’m still very skeptical of these counter findings when compared to the entire report and Morales even being allowed to run again because term limits were “against his human rights”. I think we both know, and everyone who has read any of your posts knows that if anyone not calling themselves a socialist or communist had ran for extra terms because the court they stuffed made such a stupid ruling, you would be up in arms and likely calling it a coup.
Or maybe I’m wrong? Would you be OK if Trump ran for a third term, after losing a referendum on whether he should be allowed to fun for a 4th term, because the US Supreme Court said term limits were against his human rights? Would you not protest if it looked like he lost but then the system shut down for hours and it was later found out that the data all went to a server in Russia? Would you call it a coup if the military and police would not quell the protests with violence when asked by Trump?
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We've got news here that Bolsonaro tested positive for coronavirus (1st test), right after coming back from the US for talks with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Another member of his cabinet has already more conclusively tested positive.
Presumably, the infection ocurred while there, as only now things are taking off here. This raises some flags about whether Trump and co might also be infected.
(interesting that there are 3 different threads where I could have posted this)
Edit: erc, or maybe not https://www.foxnews.com/world/brazil-bolsonaro-coronavirus-test-negative-eduardo
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On March 13 2020 22:58 Sbrubbles wrote: We've got news here that Bolsonaro tested positive for coronavirus (1st test), right after coming back from the US for talks with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Another member of his cabinet has already more conclusively tested positive.
Presumably, the infection ocurred while there, as only now things are taking off here. This raises some flags about whether Trump and co might also be infected.
(interesting that there are 3 different threads where I could have posted this) Interesting, the wife of our Prime minster tested positive as well. So JT is also isolated, but you would have to think if his wife he will get it. But like Bolsonaro he is fairly young, if Trump gets it or already has it that could be really bad for him.
edit: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/prime-ministers-wife-sophie-gregoire-trudeau-tests-positive-for-covid-19-pmo/ar-BB116rxR?li=AAggNb9
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With Maduro putting his own power and wealth over that of his people things are going to get terrible there. They have no medical supplies because of the infrastructure not being fixed during the good times as Maduro and his corrupt officials robbed the people of their resource money. And things have only gotten worse as they can no longer produce much oil and the prices are falling like a rock. On top of all this, with the US trying to use "soft power" the sanctions have further crippled the people, though Maduro and his thugs are still reaping lots of money from the drug trade and blood gold mines where the people are treated absolutely horribly. Even the propaganda spewing from Maduro is making it much worse because people are unable to get actual information about what to do to avoid it.
With how bad it is in places like Italy, it is going to be Catastrophic in places like Venezuela. The Gaurdian gets into some of the details here. This is awful.
“When forces close to Maduro censor information, it is difficult to tell people what they need to know – it’s difficult to respond,” said José Manuel Olivares, an opposition politician and doctor. “Actions taken by Maduro to hurt the health system have made it a sad fact that the coronavirus pandemic will cause more deaths in Venezuela and the region.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/mask-gown-gloves-none-of-that-exists-venezuelas-coronavirus-crisis
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When Government doesn't do the responsible thing.
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When I first read this I was thinking I wonder what the gangs angle is because they can't have peoples best interest at heart. But then I thought it does not seem like Brazil's government has the best interests of people at heart either and has not for a long time, so who knows.
This is crazy times we live in.
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Dunno, gangbangers also have grandparents and don't like them to die.
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