Marcel Lazar, the 44-year-old Romanian hacker known as Guccifer, was sentenced to 52 months in prison today by a US federal court for a string of hacking incidents which centered around high-profile US political figures, including former President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Lazar’s primary claim to fame was unveiling Clinton’s use of a poorly-secured private email server for official business while Secretary of State, a fact which sparked a protracted FBI investigation and considerable criticism of Clinton for security lapses, though she was ultimately not charged with any crimes for doing so.
Lazar’s lawyers said his motivation was to bring to light the action of public officials, especially those connected to the defense and intelligence sectors. They had urged leniency on the grounds that he did not financially profit from anything he did.
The US government, however, had pushed for particularly harsh sentencing, as a way to establish how unacceptable hacking into officials’ computers was for any reason. The court ruling reiterated that no hacking of such computers could ever be tolerated.
Months? How about YEARS in prison for doing a puic service? If she did not violate the law he woul not have been able to hack the server. But the law flaunting Hillary or General Petreaus can get away with it.
The rule should be if one busts an official in being negligent — one should get award not jail. An arrogant official thinking herself above the law will be rewarded and become the president.
Did Romania give their citizen to US?The fall guy for US screwups.
Assange,beware.
He should have been allowed to use the defense that his crime did a greater public good, and so was no crime.
The criminal here is the one exposed, not the one doing the exposure.
the last sentence of the article should add: “…except by government employees on official business.”
And yet, our own law enforcement agencies claim to be able to, nay, entitled to, break the law in order to enforce the law.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/601314/
From the blog post:
“’Most crime ‘requires mens rea,’
says [Michael] German [a former undercover agent with the FBI who
researches national security law at the Brennan Center for Justice],
meaning criminal intent. ‘If I’m committing this activity that would
otherwise be criminal, but I’m not doing it for a criminal purpose, I’m
doing it for a law enforcement purpose, it really isn’t criminal
activity after all.’”
Our masters also claim that they can, in effect, hack all of our communications, most times on the flimsiest of pretenses.
This is justice in modern-day America.
She was an alleged public servant violating ethical, moral, and legal preceptswithout regard for the harm her actions caused to people around the globe. We paid her salary on top of the bribes and scams she collected from her puppeteers. Therefor, we have a right to know what was in Lady Mc Death’s work [?] related electronic mail. It is public property. It belongs to us. The government is hacking civilians and we are not even in their their employ. No one sends their moldy asses to the clinker. The issue is not who provided the public with the relevant information about our employee’s ghoulish on the job performance. but, rather what dastardly deeds were committed and discussed by Killary and her cohorts. She flunked another “smell test. Free up Lazar.