Extraordinary story here of the Obama administration's aggressive approach to whistleblowers and journalists.
A U.S. investigative journalist, Barrett Brown faces an incredible 105 years in jail, in large part for posting in a chat forum an already public url link to internal emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor, which were hacked by a third party.
Brown has written for The Guardian, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post.
He's been in custody since a heavily armed FBI raid on his home in Sept. 2012, after which he was denied bail.
If all this wasn't amazing enough, Brown and his legal counsel were slapped this month with a gag order preventing them from speaking to the media about the case.
Read more about Brown's chilling case in this Rolling Stone story and on this support site.
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