Quinn Norton on Aaron Swartz

What it's like to be close to someone that the state is out to destroy.

US Secret Service Investigated Aaron Swartz

According to the Secret Service, they get involved in investigations with:

• Significant economic or community impact

• Participation of organized criminal groups involving multiple districts or transnational organizations

• Use of schemes involving new technology

Downloading scholarly articles is none of those things.
A lot of people are justifiably furious with US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and AUSA Heymann’s conduct on this case.
But the involvement of the Secret Service just as it evolved from a local breaking and entry case into the excessive charges ultimately charged makes it clear that this was a nationally directed effort to take down Swartz.

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/01/13/two-days-before-cambridge-cops-arrested-aaron-swartz-secret-service-took-over-the-investigation/

And it gets worse ...

http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/01/18/was-aaron-swartz-effort-to-foia-bradley-mannings-treatment-why-doj-treated-him-so-harshly/

Carmen Ortiz Releases Totally Bogus Statement

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/02090421710/carmen-ortiz-releases-totally-bogus-statement-concerning-aaron-swartz-prosecution.shtml

Update : http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/19-2

Glenn Greenwald on Aaron Swartz

Must read :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/ortiz-heymann-swartz-accountability-abuse

Aaron Swartz Interview

My Email Exchange With Aaron Swartz Shows An Original Thinker

Aaron Swartz, Freedom Fighter & Innovator

RIP Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz has a cool thing : Science that Matters