Subject: Chat with Sam Apple
From: Sam Apple <samapple@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: sup man
me: there'll be a piece on us in NYT tomorrow
me: Anonymous and Project PM
me: and another a few days afterwards
me: I've assembled a legal team for the Anons who were raided by feds
me: at least one of whom is facing grand jury investigation
me: if you want info, I can provide it
Sam: wow. nice. provide what?
me: search warrants
me: grand jury subpoenas
me: developing matters regarding the upcoming legal wrangling
me: the ABC scandal
me: etc
me: oh
me: give me a ring if you have a moment
me: I'll tell you a funny story about Disney, the Fresno ABC affiliate, etc
me: all in all
me: I'm providing exclusive info and will continue to do so to those people I like
Sam: is this stuff you can post, or does it need to be handled by someone else?
me: I don't have time to post anything
me: am running Anon and PRoject PM and have stuff due
me: film treatment a week overdue
me: talked to three reporters so far today
me: may go on CNN soon
me: etc, etc.
me: but if someone wants to cover it
me: I'll give them things
me: basically, I'm trying to position us in media ahead of grand jury, etc
me: I'm having to coordinate a lot of shit
Sam: gotcha. okay. i'll see if i can find a good person to take it on
me: k
me: guess you didn't see my Guardian op-ed?
me: from the other day?
me: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/27/anonymous-internet?commentpage=all#start-of-comments
me: has good background
me: and links to stuff
me: oh, also
me: ABC affiliate in Fresno
me: was running our press releases
me: I wrote two for them
me: as producer asked me for them
me: yesterday, Disney found out
me: they forced station to take them down
me: and yesterday the web director told Gawker that site was hacked, that we hacked it and put the releases up
me: Gawker spoke to me
me: I sent them the 30-message e-mail exchange between myself and producer
me: which notes, among other things, that the news director himself made tweaks, editing to those releases that they now claim were put up without their knowledge
me: I also have e-mail trail with me and the reporter of that station who was assigned to write about us
me: etc
me: Gawker called them back
me: was told they were "investigating"
me: this went down this afternoon
me: NYT knows, Gawker knows, nobody else knows yet
me: though I told Stanley Cohen, the lawyer fellow
me: I'm thinking of a lawsuit against ABC or Disney or something
me: but won't be able to decide on that until I speak to our various lawyers more
Sam: wow. this shit is getting crazy. i'll try to get someone on it. if you do have time to post something at some point, that would be great
me: yeah, I'll do that
me: maybe tonight
Sam: awesome
me: I can announce what specific lawyer from NLG will be repping us soon
me: perhaps later today
me: am about to find out
Sam: how do you always end up at the center of this stuff, yo?
me: I live an active life
me: and have poor impulse control
Sam: just don't get killed -- as there will be way too many possible suspects
me: I'll see what I can do
me: seriously, though, may get raided by FBI soon
me: in which case
me: I have some clips on my laptop
me: of Lou Sessions
me: Pete Sessions' brother
me: gettingt involved in an oil deal with my idiot dad and his Pentacostal partners
me: an oil deal that is about to explode into a series of lawsuits, etc
me: Got more than an hour of him
me: plus other info
me: If I'm raided, can prove they have copies of it