Summary: Barrett Lancaster Brown (born 14 August 1981) is an American journalist, essayist, activist and former associate of Anonymous. In 2010, he founded Project PM, a group that used a wiki to analyze leaks concerning the military-industrial complex, which was labeled a "criminal organization" by the Department of Justice.[1][2][3] In late 2020, Brown restarted Project PM.[4] In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for the crimes of accessory after the fact, obstruction of justice, and threatening a federal officer stemming from the FBI's investigation into the 2012 Stratfor email leak. Prosecutors had previously brought other charges associated with sharing a link to the leaked Stratfor data, but those charges were dropped in 2014.[5][6][7][8] As part of his sentence, Brown was also required to pay almost $900,000 to Stratfor in restitution.[9] In November 2020, Brown claimed asylum in the UK on the basis that he had been persecuted in the US for his journalism.[4] Brown says in 2021 he overheard officers discussing sealed charges in the US against him when he was arrested in London for allegedly overstaying his visa and incitement offenses.[4][10]
