Demand Progress renewed its calls to fire...
Demand Progress renewed its calls to fire prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case, it said in a Friday release. Swartz, the founder of the Internet activist group, committed suicide in January while facing federal computer crimes charges related to downloading…
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academic research papers on MIT’s campus. A recent MIT report (http://bit.ly/17CMCCI) showed the prosecutors were “motivated by anger at Swartz for publicly asserting his innocence,” Demand Progress said. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann are the prosecutors in the case, it said. Demand Progress also supports House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in his calls for a briefing on the case from Attorney General Eric Holder. Issa wrote in a letter last week “the implication that the Department ratcheted up the prosecution by moving the case to ‘an institutional level’ after it discovered the petition by Demand Progress suggests that the Department acted in a retaliatory manner and that it bases its charging decisions on externalities such as an Internet campaign.” The Justice Department had no immediate comment.