Hope he's got some soap-on-a-rope.

Hope he gets a "Federal Pound Me in the Ass Prison".

Ask Reality Winner about "the best laid plans of mice and men"

Why do we have the prison rape posts every time there is a story about a despicable person going to jail?

It certainly doesn't fit the "Quality Discussion" portion of Sigforum's motto.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Why do we have the prison rape posts every time there is a story about a despicable person going to jail?

It certainly doesn't fit the "Quality Discussion" portion of Sigforum's motto.

Good point.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Why do we have the prison rape posts every time there is a story about a despicable person going to jail?

It certainly doesn't fit the "Quality Discussion" portion of Sigforum's motto.

I agree, maybe we should be hoping for a Jeffery Dahmer result.

agreed, we should just give him the rope and hope that he does an Aaron Hernandez...

Update. and still no confirmation on who was paying him. word is he was not an intern, but a "fellow" - paid by an outside interest (Soros linked). Oh well, rot in jail asshole.


Democratic staffer held without bond in Senate 'doxing' case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Jackson Cosko, the former Democratic staffer accused of “doxing” Republican senators by leaking their personal information, was ordered held without bond Tuesday, with the judge saying he posed a risk to the community.

Prosecutors revealed investigators found cocaine and methamphetamine during a search of his possessions, and speculated he may have been under the influence when, according to police, he used his government credentials to post personal information of some lawmakers at the height of the grueling Kavanaugh-nomination fracas, and broke into a senator’s office while threatening to release other information.

Those threats seemed to worry Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson, who ordered him held without bond, rejecting his lawyers’ pleas that he be released on strict conditions.

Even an offer of having him turned over to his parents, with orders to stay away from electronic devices and wear an ankle bracelet, weren’t enough to sway Judge Robinson.

Police said Mr. Cosko released personal addresses and phone numbers of Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and several other Republican senators, all of them major figures in the confirmation battle over Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

“These are serious offenses that were directed at one of the cornerstones of American democracy,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Demian Ahn.

He said Mr. Cosko was “caught in the act” of breaking into the office of Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat for whom he had worked until being ousted earlier this year. Mr. Ahn said Mr. Cosko had served as a tech staffer with administrative rights in Ms. Hassan’s office, suggesting he had access to more sensitive information. And he had a graduate degree in information technology.

After being confronted by a Hassan staffer who apparently knew him from before, and knew he wasn’t supposed to be in the office, Mr. Cosko sent messages threatening the staffer and warning he had more embarrassing information he would release in retaliation, police say.

Mr. Ahn said when police searched his home, storage unit and car they did find plans to target other lawmakers, and also found notes he had written to himself laying out a checklist for trying to get rid of the evidence of his activities.

“It is virtually a hackers’ obstruction checklist,” the prosecutor said.

The search also turned up powders that tested positive for cocaine and meth, “numerous smoke pipes,” a variety of computers, phones, and tablets, and a Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and X-Box One. Mr. Cosko also had stationery and envelopes from Ms. Hassan’s office, according to the list of items found during the search.

Mr. Cosko had been working for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, at the time of the doxing, and the government says he used his official login for at least one of his leaks of information.

Ms. Jackson Lee’s office has not responded to multiple inquiries from The Washington Times, though her staff has told Texas newspapers she has fired Mr. Cosko.

Mr. Cosko sat at the defense table studying a copy of the indictment against him as his lawyers and the prosecutors argued over the implications of past drug use and a bench warrant that had been issued earlier this decade for his appearance in court.

His father was also in attendance, and John Hudley, who argued on behalf of Mr. Cosko, said his mother has decided to retire from her job to devote her time to trying to get her son on a better path.

Mr. Hudley challenged the government’s suggestion that Mr. Cosko was a threat, saying that he shouldn’t be held responsible for what other people did with the information he might release.

https://www.washingtontimes.co...doxx-senators/?cache

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His father was also in attendance, and John Hudley, who argued on behalf of Mr. Cosko, said his mother has decided to retire from her job to devote her time to trying to get her son on a better path.

Mr. Hudley challenged the government’s suggestion that Mr. Cosko was a threat, saying that he shouldn’t be held responsible for what other people did with the information he might release.

So, it's really other people's fault that Cosko released the private information on the Republican Senators? The father sounds like a piece of work, too. I'm glad the judge is seeing through these slimeballs.

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past drug use and a bench warrant that had been issued earlier this decade for his appearance in court.

So he has a bench warrant this decade, and he has been working for democrat senators - boy the left sure knows how to pick their IT staff. Do any of them hire non-criminals?

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:

His father was also in attendance, and John Hudley, who argued on behalf of Mr. Cosko, said his mother has decided to retire from her job to devote her time to trying to get her son on a better path.

Mr. Hudley challenged the government’s suggestion that Mr. Cosko was a threat, saying that he shouldn’t be held responsible for what other people did with the information he might release.

Here's your problem....I'll bet this is how this snowflake has been protected by Mommy and Daddy all of his life...well, things change don't they!

Along with whatever prison sentence this reprobate has earned it would be fitting if the judge added no computer access while incarcerated.

The kid was smart enough to convince those higher up that he was useful but, dumb enough to be put on task where he was expendable. Somebody put him up to this, to self-motivate himself to be the social-cyber-soldier he likely pictured himself as. Wasn't it Stalin or, Castro who referred to such as useful idiots...

This kid is first and foremost a snowflake. He will be singing like a canary before too long. There will be more to come with this story and I'm guessing there is another Jackson besides this kid who is up to their neck in this.

Stories like this are encouraging, in the sense that it at least indirectly acknowledges the value in and necessity of privacy - a trend that's otherwise racing in the other direction.

Now we just need to ensure the message gets across that we all deserve the same degree of privacy, whether a Senator or a shelf-stocker on the late shift at the local Piggly Wiggly.

if I recall, he was denied bail at the hearing...

good

I keep hearing how highly educated Democrats are. This guy spent years in school and will never work in IT security again.

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I keep hearing how highly educated Democrats are. This guy spent years in school and will never work in IT security again.

Wanna bet. He'll be an agent for democrats for a long time now.
"What's your experience"? "Well I doxxed Republican senators"...
"WELCOME ABOARD"!!!!

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This kid is first and foremost a snowflake. He will be singing like a canary before too long. There will be more to come with this story and I'm guessing there is another Jackson besides this kid who is up to their neck in this.

Bring him to the "suite"...

http://www.rollcall.com/news/c...-guilty-faces-prison

A former Capitol Hill staffer accused of doxxing Senators during the Brett Kavanaugh nomination hearings pleaded guilty Friday to five charges, including witness tampering and computer fraud.

Jackson A. Cosko, 27, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of making public restricted personal information; one count of computer fraud; one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of justice. Cosko posted the cell phone numbers and home addresses of senators onto the web from House and Senate computer networks.

In documents submitted as part of today’s plea, Cosko admitted that he was angry about being fired in May 2018 as a systems administrator in Sen. Maggie Hassan’s office. Between July and October 2018, he “engaged in an extensive computer fraud and data theft scheme,” according to a statement from Alessio D. Evangelista, the Acting U.S. Attorney in this case, and Matthew Verderosa, Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police.

Cosko could face more than two years in prison. His plea agreement requires him to forfeit computers, cellphones and other equipment used in the crimes.

Sentencing is set for June 13, 2019.

“Doxxing” is the act of gathering personal information about someone — by legal and illegal means — and posting that information online.

An October 2018 affidavit from Capitol Police Capt. Jason Bell alleges that on Oct. 2, staff from Hassan’s office called police after they witnessed Cosko enter the senator’s office and use a computer. Cosko, a former Hassan staffer, did not have “permission or authorization” to be in Hassan’s office that night.

Cosko admitted to breaking into Hassan’s office on at least four instances and accessing Senate-network computers to steal information, including the contact information for other senators.

Hassan staffers confronted Cosko, and after he typed a few more things he left the office, the affidavit said.

Witnesses from Hassan’s staff said the computer was logged in to a staffer’s account, and a program they had never used was running. Later that night, a Hassan staffer, identified as “Witness 2” in the court documents, received a threatening email from livefreeorpwn@gmail.com, with the subject line “I own EVERYTHING.”

“If you tell anyone I will leak it all. Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children’s health information and socials,” read the email.

Cosko was behind the release of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s home addresses in Kentucky and Washington D.C., by adding them to a public Wikipedia page.

The information was picked up by the @congressedits Twitter account, which automatically broadcasts Wikipedia changes from Capitol IP addresses to thousands of followers. Twitter suspended that account in October 2018, after the doxxed information was posted in their feed.

During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and sexual assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford, the personal home addresses, home and cell phone numbers, and email addresses of GOP committee members Lindsey Graham, Orrin G. Hatch and Mike Lee were added to their public Wikipedia pages.

The Capitol Police determined the IP addresses used to edit the Wikipedia pages during the hearing were tied to the House, and the later release of McConnell’s info was done from a Senate network. Investigators eventually tracked down the digital trails to Cosko.