Journalist Faces 105 Years for Private Intelligence Reporting

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 11, 2013 Barrett Brown spent his 300th day behind bars this week, accused of using information acquired by the hacker group Anonymous to report on private intelligence firms, threatening an FBI agent, and committing credit card fraud by linking to a document that contained stolen credit card data. His supporters say the writer is being targeted for daring to investigate the secret world of security contracting. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )