So I searched Sam Nunn & Grabbe and it brings me to this.
https://www.memresearch.org/grabbe/hackers1.htm
Which brings you to a 1995 article titled “THE STILL BEFORE THE STORM”
Wow! Thank you for posting this. This is exactly what I've been saying, only so much better. Here is an excerpt to catch the attention of others. I firmly believe the uncovering of the DS we see today started more than 25 year ago with the work of these brave people led by Charles Hayes aka
The Angel of Death ..
The following article, "The Still Before the Storm," by James Norman, details how a group of "Fifth Column" hackers have initiated a campaign to clean up political corruption, resulting so far in the announced retirement of over thirty politicians (who have received packages of information detailing their financial shenanigans). Norman calls this group "CIA computer hackers", though in fact the group is totally outside government. (One member is ex-NSA, an agency that member now despises, and another member is ex-CIA.) But, anyway, as Norman notes:
". . . the Fifth Column has managed to penetrate Swiss and other foreign banks to quietly withdraw what is now an astounding $2.5 billion in illicit money from coded accounts they have identified as belonging to government figures.
"Starting in 1991, this five-man Fifth Column team has been using its own Cray supercomputer to break into foreign bank computers, download vast libraries of data and trace this money to a wide range of illegal activities, from kickbacks on drug and arms deals to insider trading profits, software piracy and the sale of state secrets. Oh yes, don't forget tax evasion."
What I like about the Fifth Column campaign is that it simply asks politicians to live by their own rules. If they want to launder money themselves, then they should get rid of the money-laundering statutes and let the rest of us have the same privileges. If they don't want to pay taxes, then let them get rid of the tax laws. If they want to continue the insane "war on drugs," then they shouldn't be taking payoffs from drug lords. (It is amazing how non-authoritarian people become if forced to practice what they preach.)
This article is an introduction to the politically possibilities of hacking. Hackers Versus Politicians, Part II, will present a brief how-to for the enterprising hacker to (legally) prepare his or her own background report on any given politician (sorry, Senator Exon has already received an envelope). Let's face it: journalists are too technically incompetent to do the job.