Indeed, donвЂ™t come to this documentary about truth and paranoia looking for simple answers. Someone who is a hacker or вЂhacktivistвЂ™ doesnвЂ™t have to be entirely morally clean.вЂќ вЂњIn this case, one of the interpretations could be that multiple things are true at the same time. вЂњMaybe because of Hollywood, we like this, like, very simplified narrative: someone is good or bad, a hero, a traitor, a villain and so on,вЂќ Kennebeck says via Zoom from New York.

ItвЂ™s not even clear whether DeHart вЂ“ a lover of computers and guns вЂ“ could be described as a whistleblower, though perhaps he did see something he was not supposed to. Was he a hero like Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who exposed the Pentagon Papers and was branded the most dangerous man in America? Or was he actually a predatory paedophile who tried to ride the wave of activist sympathy for whistleblowers such as Ellsberg, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden? What did it all mean? Perhaps the default assumption for liberals is that DeHart was framed by the deep state. But his request was denied and he was returned to US custody.

He was released on bail and, under cover of night, slipped across the border into Canada to seek political asylum. The then 25-year-old and his parents insisted that subsequent charges were fabricated as a pretext for an espionage investigation related to a shady CIA operation.ДeHart spent 21 months in prison where he alleges (supported by evidence) that he was tortured and intravenously drugged against his will. John Agard, poet, Half Caste (2005), 73 Izzy Atkin, freestyle skier, Olympic slopestyle bronze medallist (2018), the first British skier to win an Olympic medal, 24 Brian Barwick, president, Rugby League World Cup 2021, chairman, Rugby Football League (2013-19), chief executive, the Football Association (2005-08), 68 Judith Bingham, composer, Ghost Towns of the American West (2005), and mezzo-soprano, 70 Don Black, lyricist, collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber and James Bond theme songs, 84 Ian Burke, chairman, Pets at Home, Rank Group (2011-19), 66 Duke of Cambridge (Prince William), 40 Robert Childs, chairman, Hiscox, 71 Jeremy Coney, cricketer, New Zealand (1974-87), 70 Sir Ray Davies, singer-songwriter, the Kinks, Waterloo Sunset (1967), 78 Lana Del Rey, singer, Summertime Sadness (2012), 37 Lord (Andrew) Dunlop, Scotland and Northern Ireland minister (2015-17), 63 Lord (Terence) Etherton, Master of the Rolls and head of civil justice (2016-21), 71 Wally Fawkes, jazz clarinetist and cartoonist, 98 Brandon Flowers, musician, the Killers, Hot Fuss (2004), 41 Rt Rev Olivia Graham, bishop of Reading, 66 Baroness (Kate) Hoey, Labour MP for Vauxhall (1989-2019), 76 Sir Bernard Ingham, chief press secretary to Margaret Thatcher (1979-90), 90 Juliette Lewis, actress, Cape Fear (1991), 49 Ian McEwan, author, Atonement (2001), 74 David Morrissey, actor, Sherwood (2022), 58 Rain Newton-Smith, chief economist, Confederation of British Industry, 47 Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, 55 Chris Pratt, actor, Jurassic World Dominion (2022), 43 Sir Malcolm Rifkind, secretary of state for defence (1992-95) and foreign secretary (1995-97), 76 Lord (Maurice) Saatchi, co-founder of Saatchi & Saatchi, director, Centre for Policy Studies (1999-2019), co-chairman of the Conservative Party (2003-05), 76 Scottie Scheffler, golfer, world No 1, 26 Edward Snowden, CIA whistleblower, 39 Lana Wachowski, film-maker, the Matrix film series, 57.DeHartвЂ™s life was turned upside down in 2010 when his home in Indiana was raided and ransacked by the FBI, which had a warrant to search for possession of child sexual abuse images.

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