huffingtonpost.com
November 15, 2013
Convicted hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced Friday to 10 years in
prison for stealing internal emails from the global intelligence firm
Stratfor.During the hearing, he claimed in a defiant sentencing statement that his acts were meant to expose the truth and that he hacked foreign government websites at the behest of an FBI informant.
“The acts of civil disobedience and direct action that I am being sentenced for today are in line with the principles of community and equality that have guided my life,” Hammond said in a prepared statement provided to HuffPost Live. “I took responsibility for my actions, by pleading guilty, but when will the government be made to answer for its crimes?”
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