Hey Barrett,

Thanks for getting in touch. It seems as though Eliza has gotten in contact with you. And as you may have discovered by now, this was for the New Republic (not RT). Eliza and I spent the day together at Brad's hearing on Monday -- she's basically looking at various communities of support and what motivates them. I suggested she try to reach you because I felt you could provide some good insight, and because frankly, I'm personally interested to hear what you have to say too.

While we're at it, I saw the other day you had mentioned something on twitter about new information re: HB Gary. If that info is out there anywhere, I'd be interested to hear more.  Especially of course given their targeting of dhouse.  

Along those lines, I just thought I'd give you the heads up (in case you weren't already aware) that someone from Project Vigiliant has been quietly in touch.  I'm working with our new DC organizer Bailey / "Jack" Jeffers (do you know him? of him? he was recommended via ayla) to try to pull at the string here a little further. Any additional insights you might have on PV would be greatly appreciated. In return I'll promise that once we can get wiki2.echelon back online, I'll start working on a PV entry, adding info over time as I become better able to discuss what I know.  Some potentially critical information was provided to me and one other person via Neal Rauhauser. I know he's a shady character with an incredibly ridiculous background, but I'm not entirely convinced his intentions are nefarious or that the info was bogus. He seems to have a bone to pick with Rep Mike Rogers (R - MI) chair of the House Intelligence Committee.  I'm wondering if there is any overlap between 
 that committee and/or Rogers and WL issues. If there is, it would appear to be below the surface. And if so, it would help explain our confluence of interests. Apparently Rogers is behind some sort of legal action coming down against Neal. He announced to us at an Occupy Data meeting in DC on Tuesday evening that he's going into hiding "out west" after July 1. I'm also trying to figure out if Neal has any personal problems / friction w/ Chet. All I've really come across are some money issues that seem relatively insignificant in the larger scheme of things. Basically, I don't think he's the kind of person who would try to take down PV for purely noble reasons. 

He intro'd me to his friend @keyserxsoze -- who seemed like a nice guy -- as a way to stay in touch. But of course I have no way of knowing whether and how to trust these types of characters.  

In all likelihood I've probably just told you a bunch of things you already know, but hopefully some of this was helpful. I sincerely appreciate the research your team has been able to dig up -- it's been incredibly valuable.  To the extent you can keep this information discreet, or at the very least, separated from me, that would also be helpful.

I would also be interested in brainstorming any sorts of new ideas with you, should they arise.  One potential project that we're working on with Occupy Data is setting up a useful crowdsourcing tool, using the Document Cloud model, but adding additional functionality, and making it more readily available to activists / journalists etc. OWS techops is offering considerable server space to hold it.  So at some point, we may be able to do some innovative work if, for example, we have some massive document that gets released that needs to be quickly scanned for relevant info by lots of people, etc.  Will keep you posted.

Finally, if you ever have any needs with regards to press outreach, I'm more than happy to be of service. 

All the best,

Zack Pesavento
202-713-6981









On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi-

Ayla, the person who runs the OpManning twitter account, sent me a
message earlier advising me to get in touch with you; she said that
you were giving an interview to RT tomorrow and that she thought 
that
I was also scheduled to participate or something of the sort, but I
haven't heard anything from RT about this so I'm not sure what the
deal is, if she's mistaken or something, so figured I should ask 
you
if you know anything about this. Either way, good luck with
everything.

-- 
Regards,

Barrett Brown
940-735-9748