Sonofagun.
More evidence below of the dangerous proclivities of this dangerous man, who, I suspect is carrying on some covert agenda.
I mean wire-tapping businessmen doesn’t only endanger civil liberties. It also threatens the intellectual property of businessmen.
All those trading records, and company filings, and personal information are now on the government’s files.
That can shade ever so easily into corporate espionage, right?
How do you know the government doesn’t send the information it collects to favored corporations?
The FBI has just rolled out a big campaign against foreign espionage on American businesses. Nothing wrong about that.There’s a lot of theft of trade secrets.
But then, maybe it should start looking closer to home. Google, Facebook, Hotmail, Yahoo, all the hosting companies and even the encryption software – all of them are reading your files, your folders, your emails, your documents, your voip chat. But of course, they would never be trading on that inside knowledge, would they? And what about the phone companies? And the software in the Justice Dept or at Homeland Security? Between Amdocs (Israeli firm), CACI (Israeli-American), NSA (USG), Echelon (USG) and the rest of them, every single word, keystroke, and maybe even your thoughts (mind-reading software) is being logged and kept on file with the government and its buddies. And they don’t make a dime off all that, do they?
Is Preet Bharara spying for the empire, under the guise of conducting criminal investigations? Is he spying out where the money is, so under some flimsy legal pretext, the government can seize it? Is this just war by other means?
“Mr. Bharara himself appears to have shifted his focus — at least publicly — away from the prosecution of financial fraud. In recent months, cybercrime has become a top concern, with Mr. Bharara mentioning the subject with increasing frequency in articles and speeches, just as he had in past years with insider trading. Indeed, even as his office was busy trying Mr. Gupta, Mr. Bharara wrote an op-ed article in The New York Times, saying that he had “come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyberthreat.” At a cybersecurity conference in January, he listed it as his top concern.
“Of all the issues I face as United States attorney — and there are many, many things that I have to deal with that are scary — cyberthreat in all of its breadth, variety and complexity is what worries me the most, the absolute most,” he told attendees.
So far, his office has brought just a handful of such cases, and not all have been home runs. In January, prosecutors charged two Russians with stealing personal and financial information from United States citizens through the use of computer programs. Last year, an appeals court vacated the conviction of a Goldman Sachs computer programmer accused of stealing trading programs from the investment bank.
It is unlikely, however, that insider trading investigations will grind to a halt anytime soon. Several cases remain outstanding, including the prosecution of Anthony Chiasson, a co-founder of the once-prominent hedge fund Level Global Investors. And examinations of other hedge funds continue, as the remnants and offshoots of the Rajaratnam investigation wend their way through the pipeline.”
Comment:
Yep. Now they’ve got a Sri Lankan, an Indian born dude, and a Russian, time to move along…nothing to see here.