Hartmann - Caught? Fake conservative identities re-writing the web?

Lee Fang, Think Progress joins Thom Hartmann. Thom noticed for years that people have been going into his message boards - particularly around the time of elections - and posting right-wing propaganda - and one guy ADMITTED that he's being paid by Conservative organizations to do this. But it appears that the Chamber of Commerce may be up to something much more nefarious using fake internet identities. Earlier this year - ThinkProgress obtained hacked emails from the defense contractor HB Gary Federal - that suggest that - with the help of other security firms - HBGF was working with the Chamber of Commerce to sabotage Progressive organizations like ThinkProgress and the union SEIU.


It appears their strategy was to use fake online personas - complete with fake Twitter - Facebook - and Linked-in accounts - to infiltrate and gather private data and intimidate people who work for organizations critical of the Chamber of Commerce. For example - meet Holly Weber - born in 1984 - attended Reynold High School - worked for Lockheed Martin - served time in the Air Forice and...is completely made up. Holly Weber is not real - she's one of the fake online personas created by HB Gary Federal. And it looks like the guy who created so-called Holly Weber - an executive at Gary Federal - Aaron Barr - apparently drew his inspiration from Maxim magainze - and this model whose name IS ACTUALLY Holly Weber - and WAS ACTUALLY born in 1984. So...what is going on here?

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[ba4563070]

"A few agents of the thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous..." -George Orwell, 1984

[SpitfireOFatj]

@removetroIIgroup Republicans used to pine for the 50's but now they pine for the 80's when Reagan was in charge. They like having the office of the President reduced to the PR department for Big Business. To them, it's just a sales job.

[aaamerican2]

Lee Fang is the man, keep up the good work.

[SpitfireOFatj]

@puttputtking "Reagan was one of our best presidents in the world."

Reagan was a disaster, the only reason his legacy was rewritten is because none of his former cabinet members would ever be able to get a job in Washington again. In crimes and corruption he beat out Taft.

[puttputtking]

@SpitfireOFatj Believe that if you want, and diss Reagan all you want, but Reagan was one of our best presidents in the world. Took us out of the carter recession, Ended the Cold War. Oh yeah, it's definitely just a sales job to us. Whatever. We could say it's just a sale job to you democrats as well.

[puttputtking]

@QueenOnlyMe Funny that you never mentioned acorn, and all that stuff was even discovered right before the 2008 election, yet the voter fraud still helped him win.

[QueenOnlyMe]

@puttputtking >> You know, after all sorts of investigations and attempts to make that look as if it happened, less than 5 cases were ever discovered and they were about voting out of precinct and not "dead voting".

[puttputtking]

Well Fake Conservatives, that's not as bad as ACORN creating fake identities, having dead people vote for Obama. Shows Democrats have no honesty whatsoever in them. 

[MsZippity]

@thekatman2 Yeah...it's basically just a Republican Corporate issue. Stop apologizing for these jerks. IT'S THEM.

[MsZippity]

Right wing political version of calling for phone sex for profit. Absolutely being done from right wing that has no moral compass whatsoever. I'm certain they pay people to post. This is just the next step. Who needs the actual people? Just like all the friends Newt Gingrich had....NOT! People OVER PROFIT. Thje End Justifies Their Corporate Means. These people are the Anti-Christ's minions.

[SpitfireOFatj]

Hi there you bastards! How does it feel to know that you are defending a system that has no future?