The local ABC 7 News got an exclusive interview. I re-transcribed the quotes from Tracy Valenzuela, as they weren’t quite accurate on the ABC website.

It’s still unclear if Tracy actually did participate in the DDOSing of PayPal, without even realizing it. (A possibility, since, according to Wired, the IP addresses of the participants in the “Low Orbit Ion Cannon” operation were not concealed.) — OR if her IP address was somehow falsely identified with other innocents’ as part of an FBI phishing expedition.

By the way; Nice touch FBI, showing up at this mother’s home, where she lives with her two kids, at 6am with the house surrounded with armed agents in kevlar vests.

Tracy’s first hand explanation:

“I was on the Internet, reading the news, clicking around to different sites. I saw something about PayPal shutting down payments to WikiLeaks, and I clicked on some other site and joined a protest, and next thing I knew, about three months later, I was awoke in the morning at about 6am, with my house surrounded with FBI Agents, strapped with guns and kevlar vests.”

Tracy Valenzuela: "I think I had a right to protest, but I was wrong to think I had the freedom to do it."