| Subject: Fwd: Chat with Jonathan Farley |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 10/8/10, 21:55 |
| To: Caleb Pritchard <cpritchard2001@gmail.com> |
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From:
Jonathan Farley <lattice.theory@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Subject: Chat with Jonathan Farley
To:
barriticus@gmail.com9:35 PM me: I'm sending you a link to a private shared Google document with our first round of plans
Jonathan: Okay.
I was going to email you to see if that was spam.
9:36 PM me: nope
obviously all of this is secret
Jonathan: OK
me: this is just a simply early operation, and won't come to fruition for a while
9:37 PM Jonathan: Nothing shows up when I click on the link.
me: oh
you might need a Gmail account
Jonathan: Now I see it.
me: I recommend you get one anyway
ok
I'm now serving as an advisor to the Wynne LeGrow campaign in VA-04
he's an open atheist
9:38 PM running against Randy Forbes, founder of the Prayer Caucus
let me know if you'd be interested in helping do opposition research, I have links to the congressional records and other available materials
Jonathan: I have a guess but don't know for sure what a "sock puppet" is.
9:39 PM me: a false internet identity
Jonathan: Personally, while I did have a friend try to pretend to be a supporter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to get information from them (I forget what exactly now), in general I am against pretending to be right wing and making stuff up.
9:40 PM me: that's not what we're doing
this isn't a false flag sort of deal
Jonathan: OK.
me: the purpose is to get real conservatives to eventually say damaging things to us
Jonathan: I see. OK.
me: and otherwise keep tabs on the bloggers
many of whom are obviously racist
9:41 PM Jonathan: OK.
me: but pretend otherwise
9:42 PM we may think up other procedures as time goes on and as opportunities arise, but we won't do anything we wouldn't be comfortable going public with afterwards
Jonathan: I'll look into LeGrow and Forbes.
me: great, here's a link to get you started
9:43 PM Jonathan: My strength is in coming up with ways to attack, but I doubt any Democrat has the guts to accept the advice I'd give.
me: well, they've been somewhat receptive
9:46 PM Jonathan: I'll read these more carefully, but I am interested in helping. I have a political consulting company, The Warren Group. We are advisors to Alvin Greene currently.
me: Alvin Greene?
have you talked to him?
Jonathan: Yes.
me: what was your impression of him?
9:47 PM Jonathan: Since he's a client, it's a bit difficult to answer...
9:48 PM me: Is he not clearly a Republican ringer?
this is off the record
Jonathan: Anyway, I support 100% of what is in this essay
9:49 PM and 100% of what's on the website
:)
No, he is not a Republican ringer.
If anything, Jim Clyburn is a Republican ringer.
9:50 PM He is not stupid, but, as I've told him directly and written publicly, he is a bad public speaker and the public has gotten this impression about him.