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		shareme on Feb 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heav... Anyone see the wikileaks connection? Some DOD contractors were attempting to hire them to put out miss-information to discredit wikileaks.. Which might explain the original Anonymous insvestigation

lwat on Feb 11, 2011 [–]

Actually it was Bank of America that hired Palantir and HBGary Federal to help them defend against the upcoming BoA Wikileaks release.

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