CEO Aaron Barr stepped down after a hack of the company s Web servers spilled more than 70,000 confidential e-mails onto the public Internet last week. Barr’s proposals, apparently prepared at the bequest of D.C. law firm Hunton and Williams, for camapigns on behalf of a major bank and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to discredit Wikileaks and public employee unions. At the heart of the controversy were proposals for. cyber offensive operations proposed to H&W appear to have been stop-gaps.
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