didn't mention is that the judge in this case is related to someone who actually was a client of stratfor yes yes yes i think. it's kind of funny actually yeah that the judge was writing over this case in a new york district court her husband was one of the couple thousand clients of stratfor who subscribe to the email updates you pay some like twenty five dollars a month and you can get intelligence from this so-called global intelligence company sent to your inbox well the judge's husband was one of the few thousand people whose identities were compromised in this attack step stretford already filed they already came to a settlement with a class action lawsuit and we believe now that the judge's husband actually received that settlement because he was impacted by the heck so there's calls now from members of anonymous and members of the jeremy hammond solidarity network to try to bring this up into the media is something we're doing right now so that you know we realize oh maybe a judge someone with an arsenal interest in the case perhaps be sitting on the bench the judge is telling a t

the whistleblowing website wikileaks has continued to release the stratfor documents, which number in the billions. supporters say the documents shed light on how the private intelligence firm onagers activists and spies for corporate clients. jeremy hammond has been held without bail or to offer more than eight months. this lawyers argued tuesday the accused hacker would be unable to review the troves of digitize evidence related to the case from jail, but their request for his release was denied. jeremy hammond's supporters defended his actions. >> the media calls germy a hacker and member of anonymous. the courts call him a criminal. we call jeremy a hero and we ask, what crimes has jeremy committed that have equal expose the crimes committed by the very state prosecuting him? again we say, exposing the crimes of the state is not a crime. >> those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the israeli bombardment of gaza ha