Anonymous posted this to their site anonnews.org On April 29th a person using the twitter account “@septscelles” released a large file to Barrett Brown that purportedly contained secret US Chamber of Commerce documents. This file was later made available via File Dropper as a (strangely truecypted) torrent named "chambersecrets2". It is also reported to have been made available in an unencrypted form on the Pirate Bay. Despite the promise of secrets and leaks, early research has thus far shown that this information is publicly available through a simple Google search. It's very possible that “@septscelles” is just an attention seeking troll. Despite this, there is a more insidious possibility. We learned from the HB Gary emails that the Chamber of Commerce was advised to “feed the fuel between the feuding groups, [creating] disinformation." Specific mention was made of "[creating] messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization [and to] submit fake documents and then call out the error…” The file is very large, and will therefore take some time to fully examine. Nevertheless, we would like to state that this information was provided by an unknown party and may be an attempt to discredit Anonymous through a campaign of misinformation. More information will be coming soon. We Are Anonymous We See Through Your Lies We Do Not Forgive We Do Not Forget Expect Us.

It seems Anonymous is still examining the docs for useful info, though they're claiming they didn't release them. I deeply apologize in advance for the inconvenience if this turns out to be nothing...though I'm finding a few interesting things in the Mackinac Center files. So far looks like all publicly available info, just all conveniently packaged into one file.

Lots of court docs. A massive collection of union contracts. Screenshots of University websites that speak positively about unions.

Still looking.

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As we speak I'm sitting on a mile high pile of data released about the US Chamber of Commerce. Thousands and thousands of docs released a few hours ago. Wanna help read through the docs and see what crazy things the Chamber is up to? There's thousands of these docs. It's a 1.2 GIGABYTE download. My computer is choking on it. Looks like a lot of docs scraped from their sites.

This evening I came across a reference to a torrent on Twitter that caught my eyeball -- A "torrent" in this case is basically a document dump. Basically. The message intrigued me not only because it mentioned documents from the US Chamber of Commerce, but also....

A. It's a document dump from Anonymous

and

B. It contains documents from an organization that particularly makes my teeth curl, the Michigan based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Those are the dudes who brought us the Overton Window. They're kind of nuts.

This document release contains content from the American Legislative

Exchange Council, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Mackinac Center. The Chamber of Commerce came to our attention via the HBGary email

dump. Their connections to ALEC and the Mackinac Center are not entirely

clear, but the information we provide should help clarify things. Both files are encrypted using the http://truecrypt.com system. We

don't feel a great need to protect this content since we're distributing

it, but we do feel a need to help you improve your tradecraft. The larger file, ALEC-Chamber-Mackinac.tc, is the content itself. The

password for this is "Barrett Brown". The smaller file, Press-Release-2.tc, contains clarifications that may

or may not be needed, depending on how wise those who download this

data prove to be. If the need becomes apparent we will provide the

password to Barrett Brown, with the expectation that he will release it

via http://anonnews.org and other channels. We are Anonymous.

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We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.





The torrent contains information about:

- The US Chamber of Commerce

- The ultraconservative think tank the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan

- The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)