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Headline at “Kimberlin Unmasked”:

Proof That Writing Truthfully About
Brett Kimberlin Could Make You A Target

One of five named defendants in the lawsuit Kimberlin has filed in Montgomery County, Maryland, the identity of Kimberlin Unmasked so far remains unknown, but you can follow him or her on Twitter.

Brett Kimberlin could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison

Our co-defendant John Hoge is encouraging his readers to buy the book Citizen K via Amazon. Me, I’m selling popcorn.

 

 

You might be surprised (but I doubt it) that Kimberlin’s associate Neal Rauhauser has published an elaborate assertion that this is all about a conspiracy against . . . Neal:

I realized in early January of 2011 that these people weren’t going away without extraordinary effort. I spent the next two years leading them into one pratfall after another, which culminated in 87 House offices sending a letter to the Department of Justice over something a right wing provocateur had done to some of their foot soldiers in an effort to frame me. I thought that a letter to the DoJ’s Office of the Inspector General in November of 2012, which triggered an angry eighty minute call with an FBI agent the next day, would have been the last of it, but they keep dreaming up nonsense and trying to put me in the middle of it. . . .
I outed all the stuff I did in late March of 2012. Delusional, paranoid people kept ‘investigating’ me, which is code for committing crimes and trying to make it look like I was involved. I set them up a few more times, outed all of that in November of 2012, and the response was people committing a crime so ridiculous and yet so high visibility that I think some of them may face federal indictment for it. You would think that an enormous public humiliation like what happened in January of 2013 would finally scare a little sense into them, but in June of this year they were back with another halfassed ‘sting’ that promptly blew up in their faces. . . .
This is the first of two civil actions by Brett Kimberlin, another favorite target of rightwing fabricators. Caught between Kimberlin and the revelations of the Groundswell leak, I don’t think these guys are going to have much fun between now and the 2014 midterm. And nobody is taking their crazymaking seriously any more, which is a big relief to many people.

Neal Rauhauser was a speaker at the 2010 Netroots Nation conference

Does any of Neal’s paranoid gibberish make sense to you? If so, seek psychiatric help immediately, because Rauhauser is nuttier than a Snickers bar. An article from July 2012:

Rauhauser’s life reads like James Bond or Inspector Jacques Clouseau.
What is known for sure is that a family in Iowa adopted him as a child. He married, sired two children, his wife divorced him, he rarely had or has contact with his children, he owes between thirty and thirty five thousand dollars in back child support (a federal and state criminal offense), and is involved with Speedway Bomber, Brett Kimberlin.
Rauhauser is a master of black operations and political dirty tricks, especially political cyber warfare. Like Kimberlin, he uses lawfare, abusing the legal system to get revenge on his perceived enemies. Like Brett Kimberlin, Rauhauser’s enemies are people who try to expose him, have an opposing political point of view, or disagree with him.

My June 2012 report about Neal Rauhauser — “‘A Faint Whiff of Vigilante Hysteria’: Weinergate’s Kimberlin Connection” — explains the events that brought Rauhauser into Kimberlin’s orbit:

In February [2012], Rauhauser published a bizarre eight-page document (“Andrew Breitbart’s ISR Cell?”) expressing the belief that he and Kimberlin were targets of a conspiracy involving Andrew Breitbart and many others, including Mike Stack, who played a key role in exposing Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner’s online sexcapades.

Under his alias “Stranded Wind” at Daily Kos, Rauhauser declared on July 27, 2011, that conservative blogger Patrick “Patterico” Frey “looks to be a pretty good candidate for the planner/operator behind Weinergate.” In June 2012, Rauhauser falsely accused Brandon Darby of obstruction of justice. And using the online alias “Carlito2000,” Rauhauser was subsequently involved in the strange events that preceded Barrett Brown’s September 2012 arrest for threatening an FBI agent. Rauhauser also evidently helped encourage Nadia Naffe’s frivolous lawsuit against Patterico: “Rauhauser proudly trumpeted his silly but telling hope that the lawsuit would accomplish his (and Kimberlin’s) long-held goal of costing me my job.”

To quote Da Tech Guy: “Discovery should be interesting.” And to quote myself, the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

 

UPDATE: Oh, my, isn’t this just classic? Neal Rauhauser attempts to persuade journalists covering the Barrett Brown case that Brown was a victim of Neal’s enemies:

Anyone who wants to understand what happened to Barrett Brown really needs to read “The Kook Who Knew Too Much.”

 

56 comments

  2. Please recall that within the last two weeks NR signaled more civil actions, and suggested that those on the right were behind courthouse bombing threats, etc. Both you and John Hoge wrote about this. Then and now I think he was setting up a frame job – predict that certain things were going to happen, bang, they happen (I wonder WHO could be behind it all), and then cite to his own work as support. The thing about litigation is that people don’t always act the way you expect them to act. They might file counterclaims, instead.

  3. Well, I’m not a lawyer, I’m a journalist, but do you reckon I could write a rather persuasive affidavit in support of a motion to dismiss? There is an entire universe of facts from which I could choose in writing such an affidavit, and that document would then become part of the public record.

  6. Yes, with guidance from a lawyer so that you stick to the relevant facts and the law. So, NO Rule Five, for example. I know that is a blow, but buck up. A Popehat pro bono volunteer would be of great help here. As for my comment about counterclaims, I meant that certain defendants might feel inclined to file motions to get someone adjudicated a vexatious litigant, or even enjoin additional parties, like BS, NR, Karoli, etc., etc.

  7. Discovery is a two edged sword. Take a look at the whole thing with Aaron Walker. Walker obeyed the court procedure. Kimberlin did not. And the sealed discovery amazingly enough was published on the internet. Kimberlin paid zero price for his flouting of the law, and in the meantime, Walker got smeared.

    Expect this to be the MO in this case. Kimberlin will simply refuse to provide required discovery. This won’t put him in contempt of court – you have to enforce it with a motion to compel. He might – *might* get a sanction for some attorney fees to make up for the extra time and money necessary due to the intransigence. But that is probably second go round – first one will be just a time extension. And then he can provide minimal or incomplete info and claim that he is meeting the standard. At that point, again, you can do a motion to compel, but then you run out of time or the suit schedule keeps getting pushed. Finally, you can say, well, if they don’t provide discovery, they can’t use it in the trial. Which is fine, but then neither can you, because it doesn’t exist.

    And it doesn’t matter to Kimberlin, because he isn’t out to win the case anyway. It is as Rauhauser wrote, to bleed the targets, to grind them down. Note well on the Maryland Case Search site that the case schedule extends through the end of 2014 – that is 14 months of crap to drag people through, which is the point of the thing. He doesn’t care about winning, because the case, as noted, is without merit. Just on the face of it – how in the world could he bring malicious prosecution charges against Ali, RSM, and KU? They have not brought any cases against Kimberlin at all.

    The best case here is that the court throws out this suit – and if that happens, there will be no discovery.

    It ain’t like it is on TV, folks.

  8. Replying to myself, but further note – to get the case thrown out requires legal filings best done by an attorney, and, you don’t get your money back when that happens.

  9. I can’t comment on the merits of the suit, but I can say that Brett Kimberlin may be confused about the identities of the tar baby and the brier patch in this case.

  10. Thank you for writing all that out. I have a question, though: Given the history, the way Kimberlin threw sealed documents out to his minions, refused to comply with discovery, lied and lied and lied again, in a case that was thrown out, surely this matter is going to be either tossed very quickly, or the judge is going to land on Kimberlin with both feet?

    This is not going to be fun for Kimberlin, either, is it?

  11. Does any of Neal’s paranoid gibberish make sense to you? If so, seek psychiatric help immediately, because Rauhauser is nuttier than a Snickers bar.

    Usually, I can at least follow a train of thought, even if the thinking is completely warped. Neal? Yeah, I got nuthin’.

  13. Well, it got to this point. I mean, it does seem like someone in the MoCo courts is on to the game, seeing as how some other things were thrown out before service even occurred. In this case, it has gone on the docket. But I don’t think the judges and clerks over there are following the blogs. Or if they are, the ones they are following aren’t on TOM’s blogroll IYKWIMAITYD.

    In order for it to get thrown out for failing to provide discovery, you have to get to that deadline, and you would still have to do a motion to compel, and at that point you can ask for attorney’s fees as well as throwing the case out. The judge won’t just grant either just because he or she is irked, someone has to ask for it as a sanction. So, again, see above how that might play out.

  15. Now I am LMAO. These last few comments on your blog have become your “defense strategy” according to Bill Schmalfeldt. Too funny. I will disclose another sooper dooper defense strategy: buy popcorn.

  16. As to how he keeps doing it, well, look at the Maryland Case Search. It is just what he does. Just looking at it, one might guess that he has some help by someone in the system, but that would just be an opinion.

  20. Like I said, keep an eye on the judge. If BK gets hisself a good Democrat judge with no more respect for the law than a Kennedy or Sotomayor and no loyalty to any oath but his Party commitment, it could be a pain.

  23. Bingo: it’s Montgomery County, and Kimberlin mimicry of AG Holder impresses them. Any other court would have slapped him in jail long ago.

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