Subject: Re: sweden research//future//WL etc
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 6/2/11, 16:18
To: Israel Shamir <adam@israelshamir.net>

I guess I'll send it through you since it didn't make it to him last time-

Mr. Cockburn:

This is Barrett Brown; I'm a journalist and activist who just spent six months working with the Anonymous collective on a variety of campaigns pursuant to liberty in North Africa and information freedom in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lately I've been pursuing the intelligence contracting industry, which has received very little coverage despite now taking in an estimated 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget. As you may have heard, a team of Anonymous hackers broke in to the servers of HBGary Federal after the CEO, Aaron Barr, boasted of having identified our "leadership" in advance of a meeting with the FBI; immediately afterwards we released 70,000 company e-mails onto the internet, which in turn revealed that that company had conspired with two larger contractors to provide cyberwarfare capabilities to Bank of America and Chamber of Commerce via the law firm Hunton & Williams. Although the press coverage has since dwindled, I and a number of others have continued our work to bring scrutiny to these companies and otherwise combat what we've come to see as a dangerous dynamic whereby the U.S. and its partner corporations are gaining extraordinary informational capabilities 

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, sorry about that, didn't know until after I'd recommended she talk to you. Luckily it should be obvious to others that she's a nut thanks to the way in which she writes these e-mails.

I'll send another e-mail to Alex, thanks.


On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Israel Shamir <adam@israelshamir.net> wrote:
Hi Barrett! This Mary is totally crazy! Mad girl! Well, it happens. Alex Cockburn never received your letter; if you wish try again, or try via me.

On 24 May 2011, at 10:23, Barrett Brown wrote:

No, been looking in other directions, particularly at TASC and some other lesser-known firms who were working to take away a contract from Northrop Grumman for a massive surveillance project that spies en masse on the Arab world; been compiling info on this for past two weeks and about to break the story in first part of a series I'm doing for al-Jazeera. I tried to get in touch with Cockburn about it but he never responded. Meanwhile, there's a lot of new background info on our wiki if you're interested in pursuing some of this: http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Israel Shamir <adam@israelshamir.net> wrote:
ok, I shall! Any news about Allen Hamilton?

On 24 May 2011, at 05:31, Barrett Brown wrote:

This woman's been reaching out to me regarding some research she's done regarding the situation in Sweden vis a vis Assange. I told her you might want to talk to her as I'm currently busy with my investigation into the intelligence contracting industry. Shoot her an e-mail if you're interested.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: humanrights <maryeng1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM
Subject: sweden research//future//WL etc
To: info@israelshamir.net, barriticus@gmail.com


hi i just spoke to barrett brown

i spent 5 months in sweden researching the legal atmosphere there

i will help in any way and have a lot of info

on primegate
operation want
the legal media scene
interviewed swed. crim lawyer consult too.

maryeng1@gmail.com
maryeng1 skype


i am here for you

live in los angeles now
http://braingarbagedystopie.blogspot.com/

some people think barrett is a FBI mole, but now who isnt?  as long as we're typing it up onto the internet.

now that is where i am super transparency oriented and concerned for david house
the closed espionage hearing
jacob applebaum

etc

also met
lorne lanning this weekend.

he is exceptional and has great documentary contacts



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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302




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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302




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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302



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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302