“powerful institutions – whether military or private security firms – are involved in unaccountable activities that the public is totally unaware of that can only be exposed by whistleblowers and hackers”.  Jeremy Hammond

Read the Guardian's pre-sentencing interview with Mr. Hammond here.

Government snooping and secrecy are one of the issues on which the Guardian interview touches, but in addition Mr. Hammond makes clear that he was entrapped by an FBI mole.

From entrapment of Occupy Cleveland folks,  to the entrapment of computer hackers like Mr. Hammond,   governments are set on silence.