Subject: Re: Trapwire
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 8/14/12, 21:11
To: Michael Hastings <mhastings@gmail.com>

Just that pastebin so far, this is all kind of developing. I don't
really write for anything other than Guardian right now, have been
working on other things in terms of money, including something kind of
unusual I'll tell you about later. Also, regarding this, the
back-channel explanation that Syndey Morning Herald at least has been
giving to a prominent Aussie activist Asher Wolf is that central
premise is incorrect, that Cubic doesn't have any connection to
Trapwire, but in fact they wholly own Abraxas, and have hoodwinked at
least a couple of journos I know of (including one at Guardian last
year) into thinking they don't own Ntrepid, when in fact they do, as
we confirmed in tax filings last year (even before that it was
obvious). As such, and based on some inaccurate articles that came out
yesterday in places like Gawker, I'm concerned that the whole issue
will be confused and other, not so with-it journos will be disinclined
to write anything at all on it thinking that there's a verified
explanation when there is absolutely not. Let me know if you have any
specific questions. Thus far, HuffPo Live will be running something on
it but I've come to you first in terms of online/written journos.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Michael Hastings <mhastings@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Barrett, thanks for this. Crazy shit. Have you written anything yet on
it?


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Michael, please take a look at this as soon as you can. Google is also
now taking down the search results, as we can prove via screencaps.
This is really fucked up.

http://pastebin.com/gsR8HEwN

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