the clutches of shady corporations be a crime at all to discuss this anymore i'm joined now by christian stork of who what why dot org from our new york studio thanks so much for coming on christian thank you for having me so talk about the charges brought against barrett brown why is he facing more than a life time in prison. well barbara was indicted three separate times as you mentioned in your lead up one of those times was for copying and pasting a chat room a link or a link between chat rooms from an anonymous internet relay chat to a project pm relay chat project pm being barrett brown's initiative that he had interest in so he was first raided by the f.b.i. on march sixth two thousand and twelve in looking for information related to the hack of strat for a private intelligence firm with significant ties to the american intelligence community and also in relation to the entities his research effort was looking into they couldn't find anything and he sought. fugitives mothers with a laptop they then came to the mother's asking for the laptop he didn't give it they returned with a search