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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by streetnigga on Friday January 03, 2014 @06:25AM (#7004928)
That paints the prosecution in a horrible light. Has anyone gotten further on who applied such pressure? Folks like the Secret Service[1]?

"The heavily redacted documents released today confirm earlier reports that the Secret Service was interested in a “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” that Swartz and others had penned in 2008. In May 2011, a Secret Service agent and a detective from the Cambridge police department interviewed a friend of Swartz and inquired specifically about the political statement."

If you are a hammer, you must smash all nails as hard as possible until they commit suicide? Is that prosecution discretion?

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/swartz-foia-release...

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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by wmil on Saturday January 04, 2014 @01:34AM (#7010248)
It's not clear if there was any pressure. Carmen Ortiz was rumoured to be planning a run at MA governor. She might have thought this case was a good way to get her name in the press.
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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by walid on Saturday January 04, 2014 @05:46AM (#7010674)
It did. In all the wrong ways. If she had any political ambitions, she can kiss them goodbye.
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