Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, and Their Transparent Empire of Lies UPDATE: ‘Anonymous’ Connection

Posted on | June 10, 2012 | 51 Comments

FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
Seventy members of the House of Representatives are reportedly prepared to unite in support of Senator Saxby Chambliss’s call for a Justice Department investigation of the “SWATtings” against Mike Stack, Patrick Frey and Erick Erickson.

There is also reportedly interest among Republicans in Congress about the “lawfare” aspect of the Kimberlin case, along the lines of what Ace of Spades talked about Friday: Legislation to prevent a convicted felon from using claims of “harassment” to intimidate people who are guilty of nothing but telling the truth about his criminal past.

Beginning with his lawsuit against Seth Allen in October 2010, Kimberlin and his allies have used this strategy in a number of variations. In some cases, as with Allen and Aaron Walker, legal action seemed chiefly intended to get behind the online aliases of those who were publicizing Kimberlin’s heinous history.

Allen used the pseudonyms “Socrates” and “Prespostericity,” while Walker was known as “Aaron Worthing” in the blogosphere. Once the actual human beings behind those aliases were discovered — I believe the colloquial term for this is “patched” — then Kimberlin and his surrogates could mount personal attacks against these online critics. This could happen two ways: Either by using negative personal information about the critics in an effort to discredit them, or else by contacting the critics’ employer (or, in some cases, their spouse’s employer) to claim that the critic was engaged in wrongful activity by blogging about Kimberlin’s criminality.

The success of Kimberlin in employing this tactic shows one reason, by the way, why using online aliases creates a vulnerability for anyone engaged in what we might call “combat blogging.” There is no such thing as a pseudonym that is totally secure. You may think that your online alias protects your private life, but if you ever get into heavy-duty blogwars — giving an antagonist a motive for wanting to know who you really are — your privacy becomes a weakness.

As soon as I began digging into the Kimberlin story on May 17, I became aware that what Ken at Popehat has called “Team Kimberlin” includes a number of persons operating behind Twitter pseudonyms who were involved in publicizing negative information about Kimberlin’s critics. And I also learned that Team Kimberlin had been trying to “patch” Ace of Spades.

Perhaps readers now see why I have spent the past three weeks in scramble-the-jets mode. “But wait a minute,” you say, “why Ace?”

The answer involves WeinerGate, Kimberlin’s 501(c) Velvet Revolution, the late Andrew Breitbart and a guy named Neal Rauhauser.

Readers who have been following the series of posts I call “The Kimberlin Files” have become familiar with the name Neal Rauhauser. You know about the lunatic conspiracy theory Rauhauser published under the title, “Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?” You know that Rauhauser has described Kimberlin as his “client,” and that Rauhauser accompanied Kimberlin to the May 29 hearing in Maryland at which Aaron Walker was arrested.

Focusing on the Kimberlin-Rauhauser connection is, I think, the key to unlocking a mystery that has puzzled me and others for a while: What are they trying to hide?

The frenzied intensity of attacks we’ve seen from Team Kimberlin in the past three weeks strikes many observers as suggestive of what criminologists call “consciousness of guilt.”

A source familiar with the investigation of “Team Kimberlin” told me that recent exposures caused them to “freak out,” and that certain streams of communication between their team members suddenly went into “radio silence” mode. Meanwhile, certain of their pseudonymous online presences have begun frantically attacking those who are helping shine the light on Kimberlin, even to the point of sending veiled threats and “disinfo” messages to anyone who seems to be connected to the light-shiners.

While it is interesting to speculate on the actual identities behind the various online personas employed by Team Kimberlin, their general mode of operation very much resembles what Neal Rauhauser was doing in the 2010 “TwitterGate” scandal. As I’ve said to several people familiar with the case, we seem to be looking at “Beandogs 2.0.”

Today, I needed to clear my head and relax, so I went driving around and, among other things, visited a fireworks store to do some Fourth of July shopping. But I also made some phone calls, and learned of some interesting evidence showing a direct connection between Neal Rauhauser and the international criminal hacker conspiracy known as “Anonymous.”

Before I show you that, however, let me point out a basic fact: Brett Kimberlin is a liar. He lies to reporters. He lies under oath in court. His apparent compulsive lying is one of the great constants of Kimberlin’s life, going back to when he was convicted of perjury as a teenager. Patterico calls attention to how blatantly Kimberlin lies:

[Kimberlin said] that he does not maintain any online presence and said he and his family have been victims of threats themselves and accused the bloggers of constructing a “false narrative” about him.
“I don’t blog, I don’t comment, I don’t tweet on any blogs at all. This is a right-wing attack on me and my organizations and it’s a smear job. It’s a swift boat action against us,” Kimberlin said.
— Arlette Saenz, ABC News, June 6

“[I]t’s part of my job to, to work on the Internet because it’s basically a social networking job and so I get Google alerts all the time mentioning my my organizations . . .”
— Brett Kimberlin, in Montgomery County court hearing vs. Aaron Walker, May 29

These two statements seem incompatible. If Kimberlin is “on the Internet” doing “a social networking job,” how is it that he never uses Twitter or writes on blogs? With whom does he network on the Internet, and how does he do it without using the most common tools for online social networking?

Ah, but there is that evidence I mentioned earlier, involving Neal Rauhauser and the “Anonymous” hacking conspiracy.

UPDATE: E-mail communications in September 2011, in regard to “Occupy Boston” protests, involving Neal Rauhauser (claiming to speak on behalf of Kimberlin’s non-profit Velvet Revolution) and someone named Gregg Housh:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Alex Pearlman <alexnpearl…@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: FYI Clarence Thomas message goes to Occupiers
To: Gregg Housh <greggat…@gmail.com>
Cc: neal rauhauser <nrauhau…@gmail.com>, Marisa Egerstrom <
megerst…@gmail.com>

We also have the general site, occupyboston.com. I’m part of the
Media/Message team and can get this to them ASAP. Thanks so much!

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Gregg Housh <greggat…@gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, Boston has this:
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/occupyrevolution/home
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM, neal rauhauser <nrauhau…@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>   Gregg,
>>
>>   Thanks for the intro – I just put out a ‘clarification’ to the NYGA’s
>> Declaration of Occupation. It’s a bit more literate than what they did and I
>> think I’ve got the overall tone and content about right. Is this something
>> we can get people to discuss? I didn’t have the patience to get to speak in
>> one GA, can’t imagine how to do outreach to a whole bunch all at once w/o
>> begging assistance.
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/66968871/NYCGA-Declaration
>>
>>   Keep in mind I work with the guy who triggered the investigation into
>> Clarence Thomas over the Citizens United payoff and there is a lot of
>> similar stuff like that sitting around here. Those groups get in the mood to
>> clean house, we’ve got the treasure map for them.
>>
>>                  Neal
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Gregg Housh <greggat…@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Ive been in on the Boston planning. The people you want to talk to for
>>> it to start to get any sort of cohesion will probably be these two: “Marisa
>>> Egerstrom” <megerst…@gmail.com>, alexnpearl…@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:25 AM, neal rauhauser <nrauhau…@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>   We’re getting in position to drive part of the narrative for the
>>>> Occupiers. Here is how it’s being done.
>>>>
>>>>    Overnight I created a fairly complete list of the OccupyWhatever
>>>> Twitter accounts.
>>>>
>>>> http://twitter.com/#!/list/WeOccupyAmerica/occupations
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    There is now a paper.li so we can see what they are talking about:
>>>>
>>>> http://paper.li/WeOccupyAmerica/1317378132
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    And we have our Press Agent running on @WeOccupyAmerica. This account
>>>> had 2,500 hand picked followers, mostly Progressives, no bots, no junk, no
>>>> wingnuts. It’s picked up 300 followers in the last day and since I’m using
>>>> it in this fashion now I can’t be aggressive about policing who follows.
>>>>
>>>>    This is what we’re doing message wise:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   1. Continuous low speed trickle of Eight Rules, nonviolent engagement
>>>> advice from Cynthia Boaz
>>>>
>>>> http://weoccupyamerica.blogspot.com/2011/09/eight-rules.html
>>>>
>>>>   2. We can use the list of accounts to send them individual public @
>>>> messages, so far we have said:
>>>>
>>>>      a. please help us find the rest of you
>>>>      b. please look at Andrew Krieg’s article on 20 House members
>>>> pushing investigation of Clarence Thomas (started 9/30 early AM, will run
>>>> all day)
>>>>
>>>>   3. Next steps with this will include some of the following
>>>>
>>>>      a. other Velvet Revolution activities – American Crossroads seems
>>>> most likely to draw their eye
>>>>      b. If we can get Seema Kalia’s work on Wall Street corruption
>>>> positioned right that will be HIGHLY inflammatory
>>>>      c. Keep an eye on progress against Thomas & labor uptake, maybe we
>>>> get a shot at Scalia for this NLRB/Boeing stuff he & his son do
>>>>      d. taking suggestions from the folks in the bcc: on what else needs
>>>> attention, as well as from @Occupier accounts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    I’ve personally visited the Wall Street occupation, to establish some
>>>> grassroots cred specific to this movement, to renew contact with old
>>>> friends, and to meet new ones. I’ve got my fingers into the D.C. planning
>>>> and I’m going to make a run to Baltimore to help get that one moving, too. I
>>>> may well go back to New York for a bit if it’s warranted and I’m going to
>>>> check my Amtrak miles to see if I can swing a trip to Boston.
>>>>
>>>>    There are already back channels developing but it’s so chaotic I
>>>> can’t discern which ones are important. I would greatly appreciate those of
>>>> you who have an occupation near you skulking a bit, and bringing me half a
>>>> dozen contacts for each. If you’re actually getting involved up close and
>>>> personal, well, let’s *talk*.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     The visible emails are Jen Preston of New York Times, Mark Ames of
>>>> ExiledOnline, and Adrian Chen from Gawker – three of the four journalists I
>>>> know who don’t suck. The rest of you down in bcc: are free to hit reply if
>>>> you have something you want to give one of them, and I’ll validate you as a
>>>> source. If you’re feeling sneaky you can pass me stuff and I’ll hand it off
>>>> to them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    So … reform or bust, what say you?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> —
>>>> mailto:nrauhau…@gmail.com//
>>>> GV: 202-642-1717
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> —
>> mailto:nrauhau…@gmail.com//
>> GV: 202-642-1717

While the readers begin to dissect the information in that e-mail thread, I’ll clue you in: Gregg Housh is well-known as an operative of “Anonymous,” and has been involved in a business partnership with someone who was raided by the FBI this year.

UPDATE II: To make explicit what this means: First, in November 2011, it was announced that Gregg Housh had agreed to co-author a book about “Anonymous” with the group’s public spokesman, Barrett Brown, for a reported six-figure advance.

Second, Housh has been described as a “seventh-grade dropout, devout atheist, and proud computer troll” who once served “three months . . . in federal prison for copyright infringement via software piracy.” Third, in March of this year, the feds busted the “Anonymous” offshoot known as “LulzSec” and, apparently in connection with those arrests, the FBI raided Barrett Brown in Texas.

Now, read that e-mail thread I’ve posted very closely, and tell me what you see about the connection between Rauhauser and Housh. I’ll be back to explain more, in case you don’t immediately spot the key bit of information.

UPDATE III: Did you spot it? “Gregg, Thanks for the intro.”

That is to say, when Rauhauser was looking for an introduction to the leaders of “Occupy Boston,” he asked Gregg Housh — with whom he clearly had a prior acquaintance — to make the introduction. Housh has a federal felony record and had a co-authorship deal with Brown, the “Anonymous” spokesman raided by the FBI in March of this year. And at some point prior to September 2011, Rauhauser and Housh were already good enough buddies that Neal could ask his buddy Gregg for a favor, namely this intro to the leadership of “Occupy Boston.”

Rauhauser proposed to transact official business of Kimberlin’s 501(c)3 Velvet Revolution with the “Occupy” movement via this connection obtained via his contacts with “Anonymous” operative Gregg Housh. And why would a paid agent of a tax-exempt non-profit organization have this kind of connection? Why was Rauhauser interested in “Anonymous,” and how did that interest overlap with the activism of Velvet Revolution?

Let reporters start asking those kinds of questions.

Let members of Congress start asking. Let the FBI start asking. And the next time Neal Rauhauser shows up at one of Brett Kimberlin’s court proceedings, how about somebody start asking Kimberlin about Neal, and then start asking Rauhauser about Brett. Who knew what, and when did they know it?

How about a little hint?

In a June 2, 2011, post at Daily Kos (where he used the pseudonym “Stranded Wind”), Rauhauser offered this bizarre claim:

Congressman Anthony Weiner was stalked, set up, smeared, and this was coordinated to protect Clarence Thomas from scrutiny.

What did Rauhauser link? A petition by Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution demanding impeachment and prosecution of Justice Thomas. Read more background on Raushauser here.

Is there more? Oh, yeah — lots and lots more. But I think readers will agree that this is enough to push the story forward one more day, and you can chew on this until Monday afternoon, when I plan to peel this onion just a bit more.

-– Robert Stacy McCain, Whereabouts Unknown

THE KIMBERLIN FILES:

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Comments

51 Responses to “Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, and Their Transparent Empire of Lies UPDATE: ‘Anonymous’ Connection”

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June 10th, 2012 @ 10:40 pm

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JeffWeimer
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:41 pm

(or, in the case of Walker, their spouse’s employer)

Actually, Stacy, they BOTH worked at the same firm. That didn’t stop them from doing that to you, however.
The Monster
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:47 pm

> Walker was known as “Aaron Walker” in the blogosphere.

Um… That’s not much of a pseudonym there. Wasn’t his nym “Aaron Worthing”?
Stogie Chomper
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:47 pm

I can find no trace of a Neal Rauhauser in Maryland, though there are persons named that in other parts of the USA. I suspect his name is also a pseudonym. You’re right that no pseudonym is safe. I spent the day cracking that of legalschnauzer, then solved it in 1 minute when I clicked on his “Follow Me on Twitter” link. That link gave his actual identity, which led me to his address, phone number and some lawsuits he had engaged in, representing himself.
Gryph202
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:52 pm

That’s cause Walker’s real surname is Worthing.
robertstacymccain
June 10th, 2012 @ 10:59 pm

Fixed it. Thanks for acting as the copy desk.
Bob Belvedere
June 10th, 2012 @ 11:23 pm

Contact Name:Neal Rauhauser
Contact Email:neal [at] strandedwind.org
Phone:202-642-1717
Headquarters:Champaign, Illinois 61821United States
Staff:1
http://wiserearth.org/organization/view/a0809bdc3c45526cad7e7a0480f196b2
JewishOdysseus
June 10th, 2012 @ 11:25 pm

Sometime in the past few days I saw a bunch of comments by Kimberlin discussing/praising “Anonymous,” but I figured it was already digested, didn’t bother to copy it. Dammit.
Dustin
June 10th, 2012 @ 11:45 pm

Other way around, friend.
Dianna Deeley
June 10th, 2012 @ 11:48 pm

So Rauhauser had VR and its innumerable “campaigns” as at least helpful to Occupy in 2011? How interesting.
Terry in GA
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:00 am

Stacy got da goods!! Somebody done pissed off the wrong man when they messed with Ali.

Breitbart IS HERE
Jimmie
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:18 am

Oh, my! I think I have it, or am very close to it.

Start with Clarence Thomas. Take a look at this video and notice the account name that posted it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJX7CPPiBjk
JeffS
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:21 am

Somewhat off thread, but Team Kimberlin has to be gnashing their teeth at a cash cow gone down in flames:

OccupyWallStreet flopped. Stand by for “flash encampments”.

Maybe
there’s a good side to Attention Deficit Disorder after all.
melanerpes
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:23 am

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM, neal rauhauser
wrote:

Gregg,Thanks
for the intro…

in reply to this: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Gregg Housh wrote:

Ive been
in on the Boston planning. The people you want to talk
to…

which was in reply to this: On
Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:25 AM, neal rauhauser wrote:

We’re
getting in position to drive part of the narrative for
theOccupiers.

Evidently, Rauhauser is promoting his “services” to Occupy, leveraging his prior contact with Housh to get a sort of “referral” from Housh to Occupy.
Dianna Deeley
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:35 am

The IRS needs to have its nose rubbed in this. Seriously. I know it’s really small potatoes, but I’d love to see what would happen if they started in on the books.
JeffS
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:37 am

Regarding Updates I, II, and III, my thoughts as well:

Neil starts out with a well laid out operations plan to engage the Twitter community, blogging, and sympathetic media to spread the word about OccupyWallStreet. This bespeaks of experience in the matter. He’s done it before, as you noted, which is corroborative evidence (probably circumstantial) of his involvement with the 2010 Twitter smear campaign .

And another thought, probably of no consequence, but here it is……

If Rauhauser was as deep into the strategic and communications planning for the “Occupy” movement as this e-mail indicates, what is his relationship with Adbusters, said organization having proposed that aggregation of losers in the first place? Did Rauhauser seize the moment, hoping to expand his networking, and his potential cash inflow? Or was his participation coordinated at some other level?

That’s more questions than answers, I realize. As I said, it’s a thought, some more dots to connect. Or discard.

And here’s another one: If Rauhauser and Adbuster had some sort of relationship (could be simple networking, might be more), might that have been facilitated by “Anonymous”, somehow?
Dianna Deeley
June 11th, 2012 @ 12:42 am

So the phone’s in DC and the office is in Champaign?
g b
June 11th, 2012 @ 1:11 am

Petition For Thomas to Recuse Himself from Health Care Rulings Unfurled at Supreme Court Feb 17 2012

http://www.youtube.com/user/VRAdmin
K-Bob
June 11th, 2012 @ 2:28 am

I’m still convinced the word “lurid” isn’t being used enough here. I mean, other than my last comment calling for “more ~~cowbell~~ lurid”, there’s only one use of the term in a Kimberlin story.

Am I wrong?
juliusstahl
June 11th, 2012 @ 2:56 am

Dragging Anonymous into the fight against anti-free speech terrorist Brett Kimberlin is one of the stupidest moves you could make and another indication of the ignorance and naivete of Kimberlin victims.

You are foremost ignorant of Anonymous. The meme that “Anonymous is a hacktivist group” is both false and defamatory and was invented by Mainstream Media journalists, and you and the entirely of the conservative New Media and blogosphere repeat this MSM meme endlessly.

There are three groups that operate under the name of Anonymous:

1. 4Chan – Seven million users; not hackers; not politically aligned
2. Anonymous Project Chanology anti-Scientology movement – >9000 activists; not hackers; scrupulously law-abiding; cross-ideological alliance of everyone including progressives, liberals, libertarians, conservatives, Tea Partiers, and constitutionalists, Protestant ministers, and Catholic priests.
3. Post-Wikileaks hacker groups like LulzSec, Op Payback etc.

Note that only #3 are hackers and leftists. This is the only group conservatives and the MSM talk about meanwhile smearing 4Chan and Chanology who are innocent.

If you have a shred of intellectual integrity you will stop smearing them and writing as if all groups self-identifying as Anonymous are left-wing hackers.

Moreover, you and the rest of the conservative blogosphere should throw your entire weight behind Anonymous and against Scientology.

For God’s sake, the Church of Scientology is the only organization on the planet aside from the government of China that coerces women into abortion.

And the only public figure of stature who has taken on Scientology is a Republican, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels.

There is nothing that you and the other conservative victims have suffered to compare with the 15-year terrorization by Scientology of its leading Jewish critic, Holocaust survivor Paulette Cooper.

It is your ignorance of both Chanology and its war Scientology that has rendered you and the entirety of the conservative blogosphere naive about Kimberlin.

Had you been paying attention to Chanology and had you studied Scientology’s “fair game” policy to destroy its critics you would have been vigilant about internet and communications security and not it the least surprised by Kimberlin’s tactics. You would have known how to protect yourselves and to counter him.

Instead you are learning things the hard way.

You are being fair gamed by Brett Kimberlin. His tactics are identical to those of Scientology as laid down by L. Ron Hubbard. Critics of Scientology may be “lied to, tricked, sued, or destroyed.”

I am a conservative activist in Chanology and know Gregg Housh well. I will defend everything that he has done in Chanology, where his contributions to exposing Scientology’s crimes and abuses have been invaluable.

I despise the cyberthugs and cyberfascists of the post-Wikileaks Anonymous groups. Unlike 4Chan and Chanology they are not open to everyone but only to leftists. Worse, they are engaged in destroying the fundamental value of both 4Chan and Chanology which is freedom of speech.

You are engaged in a supreme act of folly in dragging Anonymous into a fight in which up to now they had little interest.

You have done this by using the defamatory “Anonymous are hackers” meme from the MSM to do a hatchet job on Gregg Housh by citing his ‘Anonymous’ connection since you, your readers, and the MSM believe in your ignorance that Anonymous are all hackers.

A wise general does not fight a battle he knows he cannot win. Rahm Emmanuel is very often a wise general.

He knew Democrats would not win against Walker in Wisconsin and therefore Obama’s support consisted of a single tweet.

By your update you have now risked turning the Kimberlin brush fire into an all-out cyberwar. You are a foolish, foolish general.

You and Kimberlin’s victims have been barely able to defend yourselves. Thank God for Michelle Malkin and Twitchy rallying support in Congress.

Are you prepared to take on Anonymous hackers? With your ignorance of 4Chan, Chanology, and Scientology I doubt it.

You have established Neal Rauhauser’s connection with Occupy via Gregg Housh. Fine. Drop it. Don’t write anymore about it, and get back to the priority business of countering Brett Kimberlin.
robertstacymccain
June 11th, 2012 @ 3:00 am

OK: “lurid” — I’ll try to work that into a Kimberlin story in the future. Also “sordid” and “horrific.”
K-Bob
June 11th, 2012 @ 3:17 am

Thanks! Now I have to play spot the word!

Thank you for the coverage of this story!

Ace’s post was epic. You guys who are covering this story need to know we appreciate it.

(…If only PayPal worked for me.)

BTW, something is up with comments at Ace’s place. He’s evidently being
somewhat forced to set up registration, thanks to some jerks who made
things rough for the site the other day.
JD331
June 11th, 2012 @ 3:20 am

juliussthal. Think for a second. Does anyone in the world know anonymous as you describe it? No? And why so sensitive and kimberlinish about this? You should know the way you are writing is pretty similar to the MO of Brett Kimberlin.

No one knows what chanology is and it’s probably not that relevant here unless the FBI starts brute force collecting servers from datacenters.

Anonymous can just throw Brett Kimberlin to the wolves and the problem is pretty much solved.
Wombat_socho
June 11th, 2012 @ 6:03 am

Not that unusual, if it’s a cell phone.
blaster
June 11th, 2012 @ 6:06 am

Of course another of Kimberlin’s attorneys is Kevin Zeese who is self described as a primary organizer of Occupy DC. This is the productive line of inquiry. OWS. How are “mainstream” Democrats connected to OWS (beyond their open support) and how is Obama connected.
Bob Belvedere
June 11th, 2012 @ 7:29 am

Interesting, eh? Of course, we can’t just go with one source.
Bob Belvedere
June 11th, 2012 @ 7:45 am

Sensational, shocking, disgusting, graphic, violent, savage, startling, grim, exaggerated, revolting, explicit, vivid, ghastly, gruesome, grisly, macabre, melodramatic, yellow (of journalism) .
Bob Belvedere
June 11th, 2012 @ 8:18 am

Who do you trust in this whole story?

I’m with Stacy McCain and his well-honed reporter instincts.
Bob Belvedere
June 11th, 2012 @ 8:37 am

This comment by Sammy Finkelman over at Patterico may explain the phone number:
http://patterico.com/2012/06/10/erickson-swatting-on-cnn/#comment-993095
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g b
June 11th, 2012 @ 11:10 am

Adbusters is now pushing “flash encampments”.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2012/06/10/adbusters-admits-ows-flopped-now-promoting-flash-encampments
While NR switched his one twitter handle of “Stranded Wind”, which was Green related, to “OccupytheHouse” which is pushing the takeover of foreclosed homes by the OWSies. A perfect thing for a “flash encampment” to do.
Dudge OH
June 11th, 2012 @ 11:17 am

If it is a pseudonym, a tinker with Google Translate shows that “rau haus” is German for “rough-house”.

Of course, that makes the “Berlin” of Kimberlin stand out to me, in a tin-foil hat kind of way!
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June 11th, 2012 @ 2:04 pm

And Robert Stacy McCain.
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[…] There’s an intersection of Neal with SWATting, Occupy, Anonymous, Beandogs, Weinergate, Twittergate and more to […]
HUGE! Neal Rauhauser’s Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-Mail : The Other McCain
June 11th, 2012 @ 11:04 pm

[…] Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-MailPosted on | June 11, 2012 | 1 CommentLast night, I published an e-mail showing that Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser, representing himself as an agent of Brett […]
Rob Crawford
June 12th, 2012 @ 11:52 am

Anonymous are cowards. Bullies. They should stick to their friends on 4chan and leave the adult world to adults.
Rob Crawford
June 12th, 2012 @ 11:55 am

You have to love someone claiming to be on your side offering threats if you continue to investigate.
Neal Rauhauser’s Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-Mail
June 12th, 2012 @ 12:36 pm

[…] night, I published an e-mail showing that Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser, representing himself as an agent of […]
Estase73
June 12th, 2012 @ 4:05 pm

It figures that Rauhaus would be from Chambana. You might look into something called the Progressive Action Resource Coalition. That was UofI’s home for truly demented leftists.
Patterico: ‘Certain Big Media Reporters Are Scared to Write About Kimberlin’ : The Other McCain
June 14th, 2012 @ 12:52 pm

[…] Rauhauser has claimed to have a good relationship with Preston — he CC’d her in the September 2011 e-mail he sent to “Occupy Boston” leaders on behalf of Velvet Revolution – but (a) Rauhauser is a notorious liar, and (b) someone told me that, in fact, Preston […]
Capital Research Center | Archives » Should nonprofits linked to ‘Anonymous’ and harassment stay tax-exempt?
June 14th, 2012 @ 8:18 pm

[…] his home after Kimberlin contacted his wife’s employer, reports that a known Kimberlin associate reached out last year to the criminal computer hacking ring known as […]
Team Kimberlin’s Busted Hustle Now Beginning to Unravel Rapidly : The Other McCain
June 16th, 2012 @ 7:34 pm

[…] September 2011 e-mail on behalf of Kimberlin’s 501(c) Velvet Revolution? He was reaching out to leaders of ”Occupy Boston,” via an introduction made through Gregg Ho… of the ”Anonymous” hacker conspiracyJust a coincidence, I’m sure.EXPECT FURTHER […]
The Kimberlin Files: Ali Akbar, the Fight for Liberty and … a Disturbing Silence : The Other McCain
June 18th, 2012 @ 1:39 pm

[…] Rauhauser reached out to leaders of the “Occupy Boston” protests in September 2011, he made the connection through Gregg Housh, who was a partner of ”Anonymous” spokesman Barrett Brown, who was raided by the FBI […]
‘Persona Management’ for Wackjobs: Rauhauser’s Methods of Deception : The Other McCain
June 20th, 2012 @ 1:31 pm

[…] 7, 2011. Rauhauser represented himself as an agent of Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution in a September 2011 e-mail to organizers of “Occupy Boston.” And as previously explained: “In a comment […]