Truthout reports: "The US Secret Service has refused to release its records on Aaron Swartz to Truthout. The agency claimed in a letter, sent to Truthout and a researcher in response to two separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, that the release of any documents the agency has on the late Internet activist would interfere with its 'enforcement proceedings." 

  • http://cobramcgiantballs.tumblr.com/ Xploder

    How amazing….I say as i puke…

  • Cowicide

    would interfere with its ‘enforcement proceedings.”

    They sure have that newspeak down pat, don’t they?

    • EH

      I have to wonder if this means they’re using their AS info to investigate other people.

      • Cowicide

        Yeah, good point. 0_o

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

    so…they’re planning on exhuming the body so they can throw it in jail and claim it as a win?

    • Boundegar

      They cannot take “enforcement proceedings” against the dead.  Not since the Cadaver Synod of Pope Formosus, anyway.

  • stephenl123

    How did the Secret Service get involved in this?  If they were involved all along, I’m a bit shocked that the earlier articles didn’t mention that, because it’s rather weird.  Why would the Secret Service be involved in a copyright dispute or a charge of alleged illegal us of a closet at MIT?

    • stephenl123

      OK.  I see: “On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by two MIT police officers and a U.S. Secret Service agent on state charges of breaking and entering a building with intent to commit a felony.”  That’s damn creepy.  What was the Secret Service agent doing there????  So this is what Truthout is after?

  • allenels

    The whole affair is unsettling. It seems that this brilliant young man had so much to offer especially since the US now speculates so much about cyber-spying by China, Russia….and others not mentioned.