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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 01:41 AM
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Targets of Chamber of Commerce fight back

Anti-Chamber activists will file bar complaints against the business group's powerful law firm


Three attorneys at Hunton & Williams, the international law firm that is implicated in a scheme to attack WikiLeaks and critics of the Chamber of Commerce, will be hit with bar complaints next week by anti-Chamber activists who were targeted in the scheme.

"It's a powerhouse law firm and if they're allowed to deal in this kind of illegal activity, what do ethics in the law mean?" asks Kevin Zeese, attorney for the group StopTheChamber.com. "These guys are openly talking about potentially criminal activities -- invading privacy, moving toward libel and slander and defamation of character -- by creating forged documents, tricking us to putting them out, and accusing us of putting out disinformation."

Remember, Hunton is the law firm for the Chamber that worked with three technology firms to develop plans to undermine critics of the business group by various forms of subterfuge (see the proposal about creating false documents that would be used to discredit Chamber critics here). The Chamber has disavowed any knowledge of the proposal, but Hunton has persistently declined to comment.

In one exchange of e-mails that has been seized on by Stop The Chamber's Zeese, Hunton attorney John Woods wrote to Aaron Barr, CEO of HBGary Federal, one of the tech firms:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/17/bar_complaints_hunton_williams
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 01:50 AM
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1. Nice. n/t
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OnyxCollie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 03:37 AM
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2. K&R. nt
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BobbyBoring Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:39 AM
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3. Since when
Does the DOJ make recommendations about what law firm to retain? Somethings rotten here
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:14 AM
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4. It is well past time to sit back and take it. Action is the only answer now.
Thank you to the groups like StoptheChamber.com and all the other activist organizations standing tall against criminality and power.
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