the wire
Subject: the wire
From: Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>
Date: 1/5/10, 12:17
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Hi,

Understood.  I just wanted to give you the information for future reference.  Henry Louis Gates' lawyer, Charles Ogletree, knows about the case: maybe he could be encouraged to lend you some law students to help investigate: the case's importance goes far beyond me, since it established a precedent that Confederate memorials can't be touched, whereas a victory would have established the opposite precedent, the beginning of the end of Confederate memorials. The case also gave the neo-Confederates a winning strategy: if at first you don't succeed, intimidate, isolate, and libel.

"Charles Ogletree" <ogletree@law.harvard.edu>,

Regards,
Jonathan

2010/1/5 Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
I'm not going to be able to address a lot of these specifics in the chapter since it would require a great deal of set up to do so and at any rate I'm down to the wire and have to write the epilogue today; I plan on addressing much more of what happened at Vanderbilt in a future article that would be focused on that specifically, perhaps for Vanity Fair. What I may also do is have part of the chapter concerning you and Vanderbilt excerpted at HuffPo or some such before the book comes out, along with additional details regarding Vanderbilt. I've got to look into the possibility of collusion further before I run with it, also, so that would give me more time to do that and also to better familiarize myself with the rest of the documentation you've sent me.