Barrett Brown Sentencing: Journalist Faces 8 Year Jail Term For Threatening FBI Agent and Cyber-Attack

By: David Gilbert | International Business Times

Barrett Brown, 33, a freelance journalist and activist who has been behind bars for over two years, will find out in a court in Dallas on 16 December if he will face further prison time for his part in a cyber-attack on intelligence company Stratfor, and for threatening an FBI agent and his family.

In April 2014, Brown pleaded guilty to a reduced set of three charges which carry a maximum sentence of eight-and-a-half years in prison. Previously Brown had been facing a much longer maximum prison sentence of up to 105 years for posting a link to a file containing stolen credit card details - even though he had never opened the file in question.