Tornado Development Inc

Federal prosecutors this week abruptly changed the label they had hung next to Bret McDanel's name, turning him from criminal hacker into innocent whistle-blower. In an extraordinary reversal approved by top Justice Department officials, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to strike down a conviction it won last year against McDanel.

Federal prosecutors this week abruptly changed the label they had hung next to Bret McDanel's name, turning him from criminal hacker into innocent whistle-blower. In an extraordinary reversal approved by top Justice Department officials, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to strike down a conviction it won last year against McDanel.