An American man who claimed asylum in Canada in April says the U.S. government is pursuing sham charges against him so that it can recover a sensitive national security document he accessed, according to Canadian court records obtained by the press. Matthew Paul DeHart, 30, says he is a member of hacktivist collective Anonymous and that the child pornography charges he faces are merely a ruse to allow the U.S. government to pursue espionage charges against him, according to Canada’s Postmedia News. DeHart says he was drugged and subjected to psychological torture by the FBI during an interrogation related to national security matters, Postmedia News reported. DeHart said he had obtained a leaked national security document, but did not say what the document contained. DeHart was released on $10,000 bail in Canada last month on the condition that he remain under house arrest with a GPS tracker and not go online
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Matthew Paul DeHart, Self-Described Anonymous Member, Says Child Porn Charges Are Government Ruse
