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Marine gets no jail time in killing of 24 Iraqi civilians
Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich will not serve a jail sentence following his guilty plea in the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005, a military judge said Tuesday.
The announcement by Lt. Col. David Jones came after Wuterich took responsibility during his sentencing hearing at Camp Pendleton for the killings in the Euphrates River town of Haditha and expressed remorse to the victims’ families.
Jones said he had planned to recommend 90 days in the brig — the maximum as requested by the prosecution — but that the plea bargain approved by Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser had called for no jail time.
Wuterich, 31, was the last of eight Marines charged in the Haditha killings to have his case resolved. Six had the charges against them dropped, and one Marine was acquitted.
As the squad leader, Wuterich ordered his Marines “to shoot first, ask questions later” as they stormed two houses on Nov. 19, 2005, after a roadside bomb had killed one Marine and injured two others.
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On Friday, as part of Fuck FBI Friday, the Anti-Sec branch of Anonymous hacked the website and email of Frank Wuterich’s lawyers.
> http://www.puckettfaraj.com/
The contents of these email messages include detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records pertaining to not only Frank Wuterich but also many other marines they have represented.
And to add a few layers of icing to this delicious caek, Anti-Sec got the usual boatloads of embarrassing personal information. How do you think the world will react when they find out Neal Puckett and his marine buddies have been making crude jokes about the incident where marines have been caught on video pissing on dead bodies in Afghanistan? Or that he regularly corresponds with and receives funding from former marine Don Greenlaw who runs the racist blog http://snooper.wordpress.com?
Lawyers Haytham and Neal were not smart enough to change their passwords. As a result, we now have emails sent after the website was attacked. Enjoy a sneak preview:
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:59:26
To: Neal A. Puckett <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
Atwood Marcelyn <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>
Michael Epstein
917.674.4677
From: Whitcraft, Teri <Teri.Whitcraft@abc.com>
Date: February 3, 2012 12:50:22 PM EST
To: Michael Epstein <epstein@viewfindernyc.com>
Subject: FW: anon hacks marine lawyers website
Oh my
Teri Whitcraft
From: Ferran, Lee H.
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 12:47 PM
To: #ABCTV Domestic News
Subject: anon hacks marine lawyers website
The lawyers for Frank Wuterich (recently tried Marine in Haditha killings) had their website hacked by an Anonymous affiliate today. Puckett & Faraj website now features a manifesto from Antisec and is playing Sound of Da Police music video. Claims they stole personal emails about Wuterich trial as well as 9Cboatloads of embarrassing personal information. Said they did it because Wuterich got off while Manning is getting worse.
From: Neal A. Puckett <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:00:56
Cc: MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>,
Mike Epstein <epstein@viewfindernyc.com>
To: Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
Partner,
Just FYI. I got a phone call from Epstein who says the PFC Bradley Manning supporters just jacked our website. I sent an emergency message to Chief Ingredient to take it down.
N
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
www.puckettfaraj.com
www.twitter.com/puckettfaraj
From: “Neal A. Puckett” <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Subject: EMERGENCY!!!!
Date: February 3, 2012 12:59:24 PM EST
To: Micah Johnson <info@chiefingredient.com>
Cc: MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>
Micah,
Our website just got hacked. Can you take it offline and help us cure the problem immediately, please!
Thanks!
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
From: “Neal A. Puckett” <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:02:52
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!!
Cc: MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>,
Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
To: Micah Johnson <info@chiefingredient.com>
More info. To whom can we report this? Why didn’t security prevent this?
Neal
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
From: “Neal A. Puckett” <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:40:09
Cc: MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>,
Mike Epstein <epstein@viewfindernyc.com>
To: Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
It’s down now. Mike says it’s the organization supporting Bradley Manning. But yes, of course it’s the result of Haditha.
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:00 PM, “Neal A. Puckett” wrote:
Partner,
Just FYI. I got a phone call from Epstein who says the PFC Bradley Manning supporters just jacked our website. I sent an emergency message to Chief Ingredient to take it down.
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:54:57
Subject: Damage assessment
Cc: Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>,
MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>
To: Micah Johnson <info@chiefingredient.com>
Micah,
News agencies are reporting that our website was hacked and that the hackers claim our emails and sensitive personal information was taken.
Is that possible?
Neal
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
From: Micah Johnson <info@chiefingredient.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:55:08
Cc: MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>,
Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
To: “Neal A. Puckett” <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Hi Neal,
This was done by someone who clearly knows what they are doing. Anonymous is one of the largest, if not THE largest group of hackers in the world at this time. They’ve taken down Sony, DoD and many others in recent months.
I’ve replaced their hacked version with a blank screen for right now (it’s the quickest thing to get theirs off of there). I’ve also updated the FTP password.
This isn’t like the previous hack where one file was replaced and it redirected. In this case Anon was able to gain FTP access directly to the server and remove ALL files to your site. We’re working on restoring the backups now, and looking to see how far this attack went.
At this time, it only looks like the web files were removed, but the database was left intact and untouched.
We’re going to have to lock down not only the front end (as done previously), but we are going to have to limit the IP addresses that can access anything to do with the server.
Unfortunately, there are a couple things to consider with this one:
- This was clearly not a random attack.
- If this truly is anon, it may not be limited to just your site or just this one attack. Currently, your domain is on a web server that hosts some of our other sites and clients as well. It may be a good idea to host your site on a fully secured private web server. This can run from $400 - $2,000 per month. On a shared server, the other domains could be vectors for possible access to your site as well.
- Anonymous is a little out of my league. Since you are being targeted, I would suggest hiring a specialist for this type of matter. I’d be more than happy to help you select one, but it seems that someone dedicated to ensuring the security on an ongoing basis and can have 100% control over the server and site may be the direction needed at this point. RackSpace and similar companies offer managed solutions that may cover what is required.
As far as reporting this, and to who, I must admit that I’m not exactly sure. I believe it would be the FBI. Here’s a government resource I was able to find on the matter: http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm
Please feel free to give me a call on my cell phone to discuss further.
619-618-9994.
With Best Regards,
Micah
From: Micah Johnson <info@chiefingredient.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:59:24
Cc: Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>,
MARCY Atwood <marcy@puckettfaraj.com>
To: “Neal A. Puckett” <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Hi Neal,
There wasn’t any sensitive information attached to the website that I know of. It was a database of publicly available blog posts.
However, there is one concern that I have: Shortly before this attack, we got the notice of the email password at Google being changed or being updated. With their “email” claim and the fact that they had access to the FTP site (which may have been obtained through email communications), it may also be possible that they were able to hack into Google’s Mail servers.
The first thing to do would be to change the admin and all the passwords on all the accounts at Google Mail.
- Micah
From: Haytham Faraj <haytham@puckettfaraj.com>
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!!
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:37:38 -0500
To: “Neal A. Puckett” <neal@puckettfaraj.com>
Why the fuck does Chief Ingredient not know about this before we have to tell them.
Haytham Faraj
From: Neal Puckett <napuckett@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:08:16 -0500
Subject: hacked emails
To: Al West <abw.diver@gmail.com>
Al,
All of the firm’s emails were stolen today by “Anonymous” the international hackers. All because we won the Wuterich case. Beware.
May want to change your passwords to your email accounts. Any emails between you and me may have been captured and could be released onto a website.
Just FYI.
Neal
Neal A. Puckett, Esq
LtCol, USMC (Ret)
Puckett & Faraj, PLLC
1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.706.9566
Anonymous also hacked BDNNews.com and leaked a 16 minute FBI phone call regarding Anons on Friday. Expect Moar.
