Was Michael Hastings about to blow alleged Anonymous leader Barrett Brown cover? And if stories reported about anonymous being a CIA propaganda front company are to be believed then this story Michael Hastings was about to expose takes on a much darker & sinister twist.Monday, July 1, 2013Was The Fiery Death Of Journalist Michael Hastings Connected To Atlanta Security Firm Called Endgame?At the time of his death in a fiery car crash on June 18, journalist Michael Hastings was freebarrettbrown.org/michael-hastings-death-barrett-brown/ . Currently under federal indictment on charges related to computer hacking, Brown is the journalist who first reported on atlanta.citybizlist.com/article/nathaniel-fick-appointed-ceo The Web site freebarrettbrown.org reports that Hastings was planning to interview Brown in late June and had announced to his followers, " https://twitter.com/mmhastings/status/294534049094053888.&qu A Hastings/Brown interview almost certainly would have includedquestions about Brown's research on "black hat" private security firmsthat work with the official U.S. intelligence community. Some of theseoutfits also have powerful ties to corporate America via the U.S.Chamber of Commerce. www.endgamesystems.com/ , which is based on the seventh floor of the former Biltmore Hotel building in Atlanta.Before the interview could take place, Hastings was killed when his carexploded, with the engine blown some sixty feet from the wreckage on aLos Angeles street. Were individuals connected to Endgame and theU.S.Chamber--fearing possible exposure in government-sponsoredwrongdoing--involved in Michael Hastings' death?We don't have a solid answer to that question? But a report last weekfrom Alabama attorney Jill Simpson and election-integrity specialist JimMarch presents perhaps the most disturbing revelations yet aboutEndgame and similar private security firms. The report, dated June 24,2013, is titled " https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6Fh3F6hufhDMGVjMUgxdXEwMzg/ Here is how March summarizes the report www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Black-Hat-Versus-White- This is alook into the world of the private contractors that work in alliancewith the official US intelligence community and appear to bestate-sanctioned to commit crimes. We focus on one of these shadycontractors, Endgame--an Atlanta GA corporation that both Barrett Brownand Michael Hastings were looking at. We show who they are, whatthey do, what their founders did before, who funds them and who they areconnected to. We even filmed and photographed their building andlobby.Simpsonis best known as a former Republican operative who became awhistleblower in the political prosecution of former Alabama GovernorDon Siegelman. March is on the board of directors of blackboxvoting.org and is a former board member for the Southern Arizona chapter of the ACLU.They note the ominous meanings behind the term "Endgame" and providebackground on the firm's early days. Information about the people behindEndgame www.endgamesystems.com/about-us/#team , at the company's Web site:The finalmoves in a chess game are called the “endgame.” It has come to theattention of American whistleblowers and election integrity specialiststhat the CIA, NSA and White House have designed the ultimate final“endgame” for the free world as we know it--with a group of computer“security specialists.”One key component of this is a corporate office called Endgame, based inAtlanta, Georgia, (at the old Biltmore Hotel building, 817 W. PeachtreeNW suite 770). This company is a spin-off from the major intelligencesource X-Force that was founded originally by Chris Klaus whose careerdates to at least 1994 when he founded Internet Security Systems, aprivate “white hat” counter-hacker group.The X-Force was a team of elite cyber-security specialists who operatedwithin ISS in an Atlanta office and made daily reports to theintelligence community and White House about Internet security andmalicious software threats. They were allegedly defensive in nature, atleast when they started out, and protective of US security. One oftheir members was Christopher Rouland who was a famous hacker who gotcaught attacking the Pentagon’s systems by US Airforce cyber-cop JimChristy who gave him a “break” so long as he would work from thenforward as a “white hat” cybersleuth for the US government.What about the terms "white hat" and "black hat"? Simpson and March explain:“White hat” in this context means defensive Internet security--fightingthe “black hat” attackers. We write this in part to show that Roulandand his company Endgame have in fact gone back to “black hat” with theapproval of the Federal government, doing (and facilitating for others)the sorts of attacks that the Pentagon, the NSA and the like don’t wanttheir fingers found in.Firms who engage in such activities apparently are not anxious toreceive publicity. March went undercover to provide insight into theenvironment surrounding Endgame, and his work can be viewed in a videoat the end of this post.No one hasdone more to shine unwanted attention on Endgame than Barrett Brown.His role in the story began with the February 2011 hack of the privateintelligence company HBGary. From a report at The Nation, titled www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown# by reporter Peter Ludlow:The HBGary hack may have been designed to humiliate the company, but ithad the collateral effect of dropping a gold mine of information intoBrown’s lap. . . .The datadump from the HBGary hack was so vast that no one person could sortthrough it alone. So Brown decided to crowdsource the effort. He createda wiki page, called it ProjectPM, and invited other investigativejournalists to join in. Under Brown’s leadership, the initiative beganto slowly untangle a web of connections between the US government,corporations, lobbyists and a shadowy group of private military andinformation security consultants.One connection was between Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce. WikiLeakshad claimed to possess a large cache of documents belonging to Bank ofAmerica. Concerned about this, Bank of America approached the UnitedStates Department of Justice. The DOJ directed it to the law andlobbying firm Hunton and Williams, which does legal work for Wells Fargoand General Dynamics and also lobbies for Koch Industries, Americansfor Affordable Climate Policy, Gas Processors Association, Entergy amongmany other firms. . . .In November2010, Hunton and Williams organized a number of private intelligence,technology development and security contractors—HBGary, plus PalantirTechnologies, Berico Technologies and, according to Brown, a secretive corporation with the ominous name Endgame Systems—to form “Team Themis”—‘themis’ being a Greek word meaning “divine law.” Its main objective was to discredit critics of the Chamber of Commerce,like Chamber Watch, using such tactics as creating a “false document,perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” giving it to aprogressive group opposing the Chamber, and then subsequently exposingthe document as a fake to “prove that US Chamber Watch cannot be trustedwith information and/or tell the truth.”The bottomline? Barrett Brown helped expose Endgame's role in a disinformationcampaign that was designed to protect the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.Michael Hastings was set to interview Brown, and that almost certainlywould have yielded damaging information about both Endgame and the U.S.Chamber.Before that interview took place, Michael Hastings' car exploded.Does Endgame welcome scrutiny about its activities? The following video helps answer that question:Posted bylegalschnauzerat5:17 AM