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BREAKING: Neal Rauhauser Named as Defendant in @Bullyville Federal Lawsuit

Posted on | March 18, 2014 | 104 Comments

Former Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser has been named among the defendants in a federal lawsuit filed by the operator of the popular anti-bullying web site Bullyville.com.

In the lawsuit, McGibney v. Retzlaff, Bullyville founder James McGibney says his business was harmed as a result of online smears and harassment conducted by a Texas man, Thomas Retzlaff, a fan of so-called “revenge porn” sites targeted by Bullyville. McGibney’s lawsuit also names Rauhauser and a New York woman, Lane Lipton, as having assisted and promoted the attacks against Bullyville.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, charges Retzlaff, Rauhauser, Lipton and five unknown “John Doe” defendants with tortious interference with contractual relations, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and public disclosure invasion of privacy.

McGibney’s lawsuit claims Rauhauser and Lipton used several online aliases, including the bvtruth.wordpress.com web site and the Twitter accounts @OccupyRebellion, @MissAnonNews and @BV_Truth, to make false accusations against Bullyville:

The very first post on bvfiles.wordpress.com is a small post asking, “Is McGibney a  pedophile?” . . . Defendants posted a picture of McGibney’s children under the Pedophilia comments with the caption “are these children in danger?”

Rauhauser, who was once a partner in the Democrat digital media consulting firm Progressive PST, has more recently been known as an associate of Brett Kimberlin, the Indiana “Speedway Bomber.” A convicted perjurer, forger and drug smuggler who gained notoriety for making unsubstantiated claims that he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle, Kimberlin created two non-profit “progressive” organizations after his release from prison in 2001. Several of Kimberlin’s critics have suggested that Rauhauser, a self-described computer hacker and ally of the so-called “Anonymous” hacking conspiracy, was paid by Kimberlin to harass them into silence. Kimberlin last fall filed a federal lawsuit accusing more than 20 defendants — including syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, Red State editor Erick Erickson, Breitbart.com and author James O’Keefe III — of engaging in a conspiracy to defame him.

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104 Responses to “BREAKING: Neal Rauhauser Named as Defendant in @Bullyville Federal Lawsuit”

  1. Anamika
    March 18th, 2014 @ 4:24 pm

    You have a problem with that?

  2. Mm
    March 18th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm

    Not yet. I think the overall impact is still sinking in. There are many victims of harassment who will go over this with a fine tooth comb.

  3. Mm
    March 18th, 2014 @ 4:56 pm

    “So here you have Neal Rauhauser and Kevin Zeese, both known associates
    of Kimberlin, involved in the smearing of Mike Stack, while Rauhauser
    was separately involved in the harassment of Seth Allen and Patrick
    Frey.”
    http://theothermccain.com/2014/03/02/kevin-zeese-neal-rauhauser-and-the-occupy-infiltrator-frame-up/#disqus_thread

  4. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm

    Better version…

  5. rather be anon
    March 18th, 2014 @ 5:51 pm

    I’m gonna go way out on a limb and say Rauhauser will not attend court. He’d end up arrested.

    I’ll go even further out on a limb and say he won’t talk to a competent attorney about how to thread this needle. He will rely on idiot conspiracy theory garbage made up by guys like himself and the hapless Mr. Schuler – whose predicament, coincidentally, is partly due to Neal Rauhauser’s prodding. Of course, Schuler can be enough of a jackass without Rauhauser’s help…

  6. rather be anon
    March 18th, 2014 @ 5:57 pm

    This is a point that somehow is missed by ends-justify-the-means lowlifes who are just out to make other people suffer. Maybe they can understand by analogy:

    It’s legal to snap photographs. It’s legal to drive by a certain route. It can constitute harassment to drive circles on your political opponent’s neighborhood surveilling everything and everyone. There are several legal issues the distinction can turn on, but one of them is basically INTENT. Yes, justice does care what you are trying to do. That’s why attempted murder is illegal, no matter how incompetently executed.

    And just like you say, acquiring publicly available information is legal, but the issue is in what you use it for. Sociopathic jerks like Neal Rauhauser apparently think there is some technicality or magic spell that keeps them in the clear. This strategy only works until a judge understands that’s what they are trying to do.

  7. rather be anon
    March 18th, 2014 @ 5:57 pm

    This is a point that somehow is missed by ends-justify-the-means lowlifes who are just out to make other people suffer. Maybe they can understand by analogy:

    It’s legal to snap photographs. It’s legal to drive by a certain route. It can constitute harassment to drive circles on your political opponent’s neighborhood surveilling everything and everyone. There are several legal issues the distinction can turn on, but one of them is basically INTENT. Yes, justice does care what you are trying to do. That’s why attempted murder is illegal, no matter how incompetently executed.

    And just like you say, acquiring publicly available information is legal, but the issue is in what you use it for. Sociopathic jerks like Neal Rauhauser apparently think there is some technicality or magic spell that keeps them in the clear. This strategy only works until a judge understands that’s what they are trying to do.

  8. Quartermaster
    March 18th, 2014 @ 5:58 pm

    That there is a double negative dudette.

  9. Quartermaster
    March 18th, 2014 @ 5:58 pm

    That there is a double negative dudette.

  10. rather be anon
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:01 pm

    Wow, genius question. The answer, in short, is that one of the things you can always forsee is that Team Kimberlin will always be awful and stupid. They’ll also have no self awareness of that. Hope that clears it up for you.

  11. Aslaug Lodbrok
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:06 pm

    You didn’t mention who the lawyer is that is representing bullyville. Its NR’s former favorite attorney, Jay Leiderman. Now, that’s kinda
    interesting. Do you know what’s up with that? What happened to their
    former alliance to save the world from republicans.

    And also, did you
    see that powerpoint thing Snowden put out basically describing NR’s
    entire MO. It was a State Dept project tasked to the NSA to use folks like NR
    to do what NR did. It came out a week or so ago. Sorta kinda similar to
    the way other govt agencies are being weaponized to destroy
    conservatives/republicans. This time, the NSA via the State dept. It
    more than supports the idea that NR is being protected by higher ups,
    but could also explain how BK got money from the State Dept. Hmm?

  12. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:09 pm

    What powerpoint thing?

  13. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:16 pm

    Just delusional enough to be in need of a 5150 confinement for 72 hours of psychiatric evaluation.

  14. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:16 pm

    I’ve been trying to make this point for a while now. Engaging in these acts was a really bad decision on their part.

    My understanding is that every state in the Union has harassment laws which cover this sort of activity. Also, it becomes a federal crime if one DOXes a government employee (local, state or federal).

  15. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:18 pm

    She cannot ever keep her stupidity to herself …

  16. Aslaug Lodbrok
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:19 pm

    “New Snowden Documents Show that Governments Are “Attempting To Control, Infiltrate, Manipulate, and Warp Online Discourse”

    I couldn’t paste the hyperlink so I copied a headline. Hope that helps. You could search that and get a broader picture.

  17. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm

    Note the reference to Maltego, a Neal give-away …

  18. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:23 pm

    Are you referring to this:

  19. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:26 pm

    Spot on.

  20. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm

    I will go (not so far) out and say that he will fabricate email/twitter/website trails of fake evidence and attempt to mail them to the court in the delusional hope that it will all be accepted without being authenticated.

    Tell me I’m wrong.

  21. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 6:35 pm
  22. rather be anon
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:00 pm

    That kind of strategy would be both stupid and totally damn obnoxious, so it makes sense that Rauhauser would at least consider it. He will reject it if he thinks of something even more stupid and obnoxious, though.

  23. Doug Kirby
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:02 pm

    Bah… that site is a bunch of lefty agiprop and as loopy as Zerohedge. One of the mandates for CIA/NSA is to sow discord and disruption in our enemy’s operations. Why would anybody think the internet is out of bounds for that? And by the way, it”s a little cleaner than guns or umbrella tips….

  24. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm

    OMG OMG OMG…Did you people actually look at that thing???

  25. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm

    Point taken.

  26. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:21 pm

    Agreed. Just posted the link that the other commenter didn’t seem to be able to post …

  27. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:23 pm

    Much of what is graphed out is standard ops for a long con or longer-running scam …

  28. Aslaug Lodbrok
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:23 pm

    I wasn’t recommending the site. I was trying to find the Snowden documents that Glenn Greenwald reported on. The blog just reported on that report. Read the Snowden docs and forget the blog itself.

  29. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:25 pm

    Any self-respecting and somewhat successful con-man uses similar diagrams with specific information as opposed to the generalizations depicted in these diagrams.

  30. Aslaug Lodbrok
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm

    whatever.

  31. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:28 pm

    I speak with the voice of experience. I spent nearly 40 years involved in one con or another. This fact is well known to the regulars here and a source of much friction.

  32. Doug Kirby
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:33 pm

    Yep and con games can be a legitimate tool for national security. Oh, Mr. Nixon, you missed your calling in the NSA… 🙂

  33. rmnixondeceased
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:35 pm

    You are correct about the former and probably correct on the latter. I did offer them my services back before I went to prison … they were not too keen on that idea.

  34. K-Bob
    March 18th, 2014 @ 7:48 pm

    I thought the generalizations in that diagram were more or less bafflegab to show someone else what kinds of generic confidence measures the presenter has at his disposal.

    The funny thing is a lot of that crap is basic sales technique, too.

  35. Mm
    March 18th, 2014 @ 8:02 pm

    The first thing that jumped out at me was the spelling mistake. Then the crazy graphing that suggests someone on a bad acid trip. What is that chart supposed to be?

  36. bet0001970
    March 18th, 2014 @ 9:28 pm

    The thing that jumped out at me was the FameBall circle.

  37. Aslaug Lodbrok
    March 18th, 2014 @ 9:30 pm

    Cass Sunstein is married to our UN Ambassador Samantha Power. He is likely the godfather of the Snowden docs referencee below that train people to do just exactly what describes this current RICO lawsuit faced by the right blogosphere. It also tracks with the bullyville lawsuit. It tracks with what happened to a whole bunch of folks, including Breitbart. It is not just for foreign enemies. These are current Lefty tactics that Snowden is revealing. Only lefties are reporting on it. This tidbit is from a Slate author describing the potential origin of this behavior pattern.

    Please read through to the end and see if you think seen this behavior as described by Mr. Sunstein – close confident to our President, is a familiar behavior pattern.

    “Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest
    confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs.” In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites — as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that Sunstein deems “false conspiracy theories” about the Government. This would be designed to increase citizens’ faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists.

    Sunstein advocates that the Government’s stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups.” He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called “independent” credible voices to bolster the Government’s messaging (on the ground that those
    who don’t believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to those who appear independent while secretly acting on
    behalf of the Government). This program would target those advocating false “conspiracy theories,” which they define to mean: “an attempt to explain an event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who have also managed to conceal their role.”

  38. Doug Kirby
    March 18th, 2014 @ 9:53 pm

    Seriously? You’re quoting Glenn Greenwald? And do you suggest RT.com for your foreign policy recommendations? You sound like a lefty, anarchist emoprog. The real world can be difficult, dangerous and (in many places) frightening and living in the United States has allowed many of us to forget that. Perhaps Alex Jones’ website may be more to your liking…

  39. CindyLou
    March 18th, 2014 @ 10:30 pm

    Anamika, try bvfiIes.wordpress.com

  40. Katie Scarlet
    March 18th, 2014 @ 10:45 pm

    Must get Zapem?

  41. Katie Scarlet
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:03 pm

    Tin foil won’t work, you need to find some lead foil as that stops thought radiation from penetrating your cranium.

  42. Anamika
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:07 pm

    You think I’m an idiot to click that fake link? LMAO!

    If you want my IP address, ask Wombat.

  43. ZZZZZZZZ
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:18 pm

    Double negatives are sometimes acceptable.

    However, “can’t never” is just bad grammar, the sort intellectual elites usually associate with chinless rednecks driving ancient pick ups with a selection of spare tires in the bed.

    Make of it what you will.

  44. Anamika
    March 18th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm

    Anamika, try bvfiIes.wordpress.com

    I request NO ONE click that site (without at least using a proxy.) Its a phishing site (notice the capital “i” instead of ‘l’)to collect the ip addresses of mistaken visitors, and/or was originally designed as an attempt to trick the bvfiles admin to give away their login info.

  45. Adjoran
    March 19th, 2014 @ 12:50 am

    If one were to undertake to “prove you wrong” every time you were, it would become a full-time job.

    Just admit you are stupid and don’t get the interwebs.

  46. Anamika
    March 19th, 2014 @ 1:08 am

    I’m 100% right in this instance. That website url never existed. McCain was confused/mistaken, and you guys are defending that error blindly. That’s so silly.

  47. rmnixondeceased
    March 19th, 2014 @ 7:02 am

    Consider that a con-man has only one product to sell: his con (which usally is the fact that he is selling himself and his version of reality). Thus con-men are actually excellent salesmen and often start their careers in sales before falling off the rails into criminality.

  48. Frankie
    March 19th, 2014 @ 9:11 am

    I thought only Schmalfeldt shit himself?

  49. McGehee
    March 19th, 2014 @ 10:09 am

    He does it recreationally.

  50. Frankie
    March 19th, 2014 @ 11:22 am

    This is the graph (minus the added Neal items) that was posted to the website that Kimby linked to in his Second Amended Complaint. The part here he talks about Team Themis, magicians trying to turn people against him, etc. Coincidence?