On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> New Yorker turned me down again but at least responded. You can see my query
> on the Wikileaks thing below. Sent it out to a bunch of other people
> including some I haven't tried before.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Book excerpts - "Hot, Fat, and Clouded"
> To: Blake Eskin <
Blake_Eskin@newyorker.com>
>
>
> Blake-
> Okay, thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> Thanks again,
> Barrett Brown
> Brooklyn, NY
> 512-560-2302
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Blake Eskin <
Blake_Eskin@newyorker.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Barrett,
>> This is interesting but doesnt work for us.
>>
>> Best,
>> B
>>
>>
>> On 3/26/10 3:52 AM, "Barrett Brown" <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Blake-
>>
>>
>> I wanted to try you for one more query. To recap, I write for Vanity Fair,
>> Huffington Post, True/Slant, Skeptic, The Skeptical Inquirer, and some other
>> things here and there, and my second book of political commentary is being
>> released this summer. I've also just begun with The New York Observer since
>> we last spoke.
>>
>> You may be familiar with the organization Wikileaks, which has run into
>> some trouble with the U.S. intelligence service as of late and which on the
>> 15th of this month published a leaked secret Army Intel document describing
>> the organization at length and proposing methods by which it might be deemed
>> less effective. The admins sent out a series of messages two nights ago to
>> the effect that one editor had been detained for 22 hours and shown photos
>> taken of one of their production meetings, that two or more were tailed on
>> their way out of Iceland by State Department-associated folks, and that all
>> in all, some number of them had been the subject of an "aggressive"
>> surveillance operation by U.S. and Icelandic intelligence operatives.
>>
>> I wrote a piece on those particular goings-down yesterday for HuffPo and
>> did a radio interview on it today for Antiwar, but I'm also about to write
>> another piece on the material contained in the Army Intel, which has a
>> number of interesting portions. Aside from the few sinister parts - "The
>> identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution,
>> legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers
>> could potentially damage, or destroy this center of gravity and deter others
>> considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site." - there
>> is quite a bit here that provides some insight into how Army Intel perceives
>> aspects of the internet, as well as a number of accurate and occasionally
>> insightful descriptions of those aspects. I would also provide some
>> background into Wikileaks itself as well as Iceland's possible status as a
>> safe haven for information that might be restricted elsewhere; Wikileaks
>> admins are involved in preparing the proposed legislation in question, the
>> Modern Media Initiative.
>>
>> I also just did an e-mail interview with a key figure in the decentralized
>> internet group known as Anonymous; this is the one who did the initial video
>> warning to Scientology that prompted the other "members" to after the CoS
>> and who maintained the associated websites from which the global protests
>> and other actions were organized. Anonymous has no leaders or really any
>> structure; this person just happens to have initiated the attack and helped
>> to direct it afterwards. I've been able to verify that it's the same person
>> as he or she has control over the YouTube account and sites in question.
>> Part of the interview and the related matter of Anonymous could be used in
>> the Wikileaks story.
>>
>> Please let me know if you would have any interest in such an article.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Barrett Brown
>> Brooklyn, NY
>> 512-560-2302
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Blake Eskin <
Blake_Eskin@newyorker.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Barrett,
>>
>> Thanks for your query. This doesnt sound right for us, but Ill let our
>> books blog know about the forthcoming book. Good luck with it.
>>
>> All best,
>>
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