Boston - Documents show that the U.S. Secret Service played
a role in the federal investigation of free-information activist Aaron Swartz
and watched his case until he committed suicide.
Swartz died in New York City in January as he faced trial on
charges he hacked into a Massachusetts Institute of Technology archive of
scholarly articles with the aim of making them freely available.
The Secret Service documents, released under the Freedom of
Information Act, show the agency’s Boston field office secured documents and
electronic devices seized during a search of Swartz’s home and research office
at Harvard University.
Agents also joined local police who interviewed Swartz’s
associates, including a San Francisco woman who told them that he called her
after he was arrested and asked her to call his lawyer to arrange bail.
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